Looks delightful
Here’s the spread. I did not collapse in bed fully clothed. Instead, I nearly nodded off at the table, and had to keep filling my tea cup to stay awake!
Clockwise from upper left: Inarizushi (cheated and used the canned agemono), nishime, roast pork belly (from “Made with Lau” on YT), selection of rolls, both futo- and hosomaki, sunomono, kinpira gobo, shoyu wings, and in center-ish is kinpira renkon. Spawn2 made the gobo and wanted more practice making hosomaki, so I rolled the futomaki but only one of the little guys and they rolled the rest.
Fabulous!
Thanks. We had fun. The Dungeness were particularly sweet and full.
We did NYE differently this year. A cheese plate and smoked salmon early, then a beer at a favorite brewpub, then home to what you see in the photo. Played with the dogs until 9pm Pacific, then bed.
Ours varies but must include potato chips and onion dip, and M&Ms, which requirements date back to my husband’s childhood seventy years ago. We also have non-alcoholic sparkling cider or juice.
(When I was growing up, my family always played Scrabble on NYE, and burned all the expiring product coupons in the fireplace at midnight.)
I love those family traditions. Besides burning off fireworks, a big thing in Germany used to be Bleigießen, which involves melting lead shaped in lucky shapes — think cloverleaf, pig, money bag, etc., then tossing the melted lead into a bowl of water. It would come with a tiny booklet on how to “read” the results, most of which strikingly resembled the shape of a… drop 
Fondue was another tradition, of course, and Feuerzangenbowle.
Thank God I’m old. And cranky.
