Well, today I'm starting a new project. This blog. I hope you enjoy it. It will basically be about my adventures in cooking, weight loss, Corgis, and well, life from my perspective as a first generation American.
Quite a few years back, my mother heard that you should eat pork and cabbage on New Year's day. I know that the cabbage is supposed to represent money, but I don't know what the pork is supposed to represent. So, in my infinite curiosity, I decided to Google it and here's what I found:
I found that in the Midwest, the cabbage took the form of sauerkraut on New Year's day. (well, that's what I've been doing wrong all these years!) Cabbage is green and thus represents dollar bills. It is said that pigs always root moving forward (as opposed to chickens and turkeys which scratch backward for their food) so pork represents moving forward in the year.
Well I really mucked it up this year. The store was out of green cabbage (yes, they were completely sold out!) so I grabbed a purple cabbage. I wonder what that means for me????
I decided to make cabbage rolls for New Year's day. I don't know why, but this is something that we never, and I mean NEVER, had growing up. I know we had sauerkraut a lot (I hated it), so I know that cabbage is part of the Dutch culinary spectrum, but I don't know why we never had any other sort of cabbage? But I digress....
And I just noticed the time...way past my bedtime and I have to get up and go to work tomorrow. ugh.....
So I want to wish all my family and friends and Corgis a very very Happy and Prosperous 2015!
(I'll continue this post tomorrow)
-1GMG
Quite a few years back, my mother heard that you should eat pork and cabbage on New Year's day. I know that the cabbage is supposed to represent money, but I don't know what the pork is supposed to represent. So, in my infinite curiosity, I decided to Google it and here's what I found:
I found that in the Midwest, the cabbage took the form of sauerkraut on New Year's day. (well, that's what I've been doing wrong all these years!) Cabbage is green and thus represents dollar bills. It is said that pigs always root moving forward (as opposed to chickens and turkeys which scratch backward for their food) so pork represents moving forward in the year.
Well I really mucked it up this year. The store was out of green cabbage (yes, they were completely sold out!) so I grabbed a purple cabbage. I wonder what that means for me????
I decided to make cabbage rolls for New Year's day. I don't know why, but this is something that we never, and I mean NEVER, had growing up. I know we had sauerkraut a lot (I hated it), so I know that cabbage is part of the Dutch culinary spectrum, but I don't know why we never had any other sort of cabbage? But I digress....
And I just noticed the time...way past my bedtime and I have to get up and go to work tomorrow. ugh.....
So I want to wish all my family and friends and Corgis a very very Happy and Prosperous 2015!
(I'll continue this post tomorrow)
-1GMG