What's for dinner New Year's Eve?

14 years ago

We are noshing tonight. I bought a round of Brie and will warm it until it's a little gooey and have it with grapes and sliced pears and apples. Also a feta/spinach pizza (Publix) cut into squares.

Later we'll crack open the Bailey's and maybe have some peppermint truffles.

I sure hope I can stay awake until midnight!!!

How about you? Staying in, going out?? Whatever you are doing, I wish you all the happiest New Year!!

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glenda_al
14 years ago
NOTHING, period!!!!!

Refrigerator has been cleaned of all tempting foods, and sent off to go to hunting club with son and gs.

I'm tired of eating!
Kathsgrdn
14 years ago
Made the rice...now just need to start the curry.
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patti43
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14 years ago
Glenda, I sure hope you had a good time today. They will enjoy the food at their club, for sure.

Kath--I can almost smell the curry. Man, do I love that smell! Almost as good as the taste.
LuAnn_in_PA
14 years ago
Steak fresh from the butcher
salad
wine
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
going to pick up a wings variety with fresh cut fries. I will be cooking tomorrow so not tonight.

Asti at Midnight!
bengardening
14 years ago
We are going to mass tonight and then going to the restaurant where I work for steak and lobster.
lynn_d
14 years ago
Prime rib, crab legs, salad and a few roasted potatoes. A bottle of Silver Oak that we have been hoarding, probably Prosecco and grapes at midnight.

Patti, that is what we did on Christmas Eve.

Bengardening, tomorrow I will regret not going to Mass tonight.

Sounds goo LuAnn. Kathleen, I never developed a taste for curry.

Raven, that is our regular Saturday night meal, not the fries but we often have wings.
Kathsgrdn
14 years ago
Lynn, I grew up with it, we had it all the time...so my kids did too. It's one of their favorite dishes.
lynn_d
14 years ago
I will have to try it again, Kathleen, so many love it, there must be good reason! I think it is my loss.
samkaren
14 years ago
We drove 3 hours today to Joliet to go to our favorite Chinese restaurant. We brought home:

Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken Egg Foo Young
5 orders of Egg Rolls
and they threw in a container of Buffalo Wings (free for the new year)

We have enough for several days. It's a long drive but SO worth it.

SamKaren
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Nita__AZ
14 years ago
For dinner tonight we had calamari, pot stickers, steamed rice and whole kernel corn.

I made a shrimp dip to have with chips later this evening. We usually go to bed at midnight so we will bring in the new year.
minnie_tx
14 years ago
nothing home alone
Tomorrow welcome the new year at the Chinese palace yummmm
Georgysmom
14 years ago
Oh my gosh. We had shrimp and scallops and oysters and clams and muscles and calamari and homemade pasta she crab soup and rack of lamb and roast beef and chicken cordon blue and pate and brie and so many different salads and a platter of assorted cheeses and cheese cake and chocolate cake and bread pudding and bananas Foster and on and on and on. I ate so much I hurt. It was a lovely evening. I'm glad I went. We generally stay home but decided to join in on the fun this year. It was funny to watch though. We're all getting older and everyone was wondering if they could make it to midnight. I remember the years we went until 2:00 -3:00 and even 4:00 in the morning.
lazypup
14 years ago
Jan & I went shopping and got home late, so neither of us really felt like cooking so I got a silly idea...

I told Jan to call the chinaman and tell him to get on his bicycle,,,which of course is my way of telling her to order chinese and let them do the dishes.

Our chinese restaraunt is only 1/2 block away and they actually deliver here on a bicycle because it is faster and more convenient than driving a car.
Marilyn Sue
14 years ago
We had lots of food from the cookout but I only ate a chicken wing, a honey barbecued one, a hot dog, some kind of chicken rice casserole my sister in law brought, coleslaw, onion and cucumber salad, cheese potatoes and a piece of lemon meringue pie. There was so much other food I wanted to try but didn't. I will have some of it today after church for our lunch.

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