New Year’s Eve 2025 🥳

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As this garbage year is slowly but Shirley drawing to a close, New Year’s Eve festivities are on my mind.

Our OG plans to visit a good friend in HK after xmas and into the new year had to be nixed due to financial reasons. Wah.

Pre-pandemic we used to host lavish cocktail parties with up to 85 peeps, a rented dance floor, bubbly, and finger foods. Some would stay till 2-3am.

While our friends keep nagging us about hosting another blow-out bash like in the good ole days, we’re less motivated given the prep & costs.

It looks like a few of our friends will be around, so we may just host a small gathering.

Festive to me usually means fancy-ish foods like shrimp cocktail, crab salad, escargots, my homemade gravlax, etc.

How will you be celebrating the end of this year, with hopefully better times for us all on the horizon?

What did you eat NYE 2025?
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Mrs H and I will cook a nice dinner. Four courses of some sort. And, in due course, we’ll go to bed soon after midnight. Yes, we are boring old people.

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Ill probably be camping in my primitive tent with a handful of friends. If its like prior years, blackeyed peas and greens cooked with ham hocks.

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Even if I didn’t hate camping with a passion, that would be a non-starter here. Sounds like a fun outing.

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We’re pretty low key on New Years, and sheepishly admit we are usually asleep when the new years rolls in. We are up and out early on New Years Day for an important Buddhist ritual called Hatsu Goma. Around New Years we usually go to a friends house for pounding and making mochi… which is a great resin to get together to eat and drink a lil beer.

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I havent done anything for NYE in at least 14-15 years. Used to go to a (now former) friend’s house and play sous chef to the person doing the main cooking (a forrmer line cook) for upwards of 6-8 of us.

But now I stay home. Sometimes I stay up until midnight; sometimes I don’t. After Dick Clark passed, I was less inclined to watch New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Plus, the music now usually isn’t my cuppa, because I’m an Old. :grin:

I’ve taken to making various tapas in the past couple of years, as it allows me to graze in the afternoon and evening at my leisure. But I’ve also done a duck breast, and one time, my usual Christmas dinner of beef tenderloin with a cognac cream sauce when I hadn’t made it on Christmas for my Mom.

So I’ll think about what I want to make, but will likely stick with something I’m used to making.

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There will be some good food and maybe a movie, but here in jammy house we are usually asleep before 12 or gaming until 3.

I’m in the linguafood camp. Hopefully this coming year will wash away some of the nastiness of the old one.

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From your mouth to the goddesses’ ears!

What kind of games do you play? Board games?

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I’m planning to serve Shuba Salad on New Year’s Eve

Bonnie Morales’ Shuba Salad

I will make a traditional French Canadian meatball stew on NYD.

lots of lucky New Year’s Eve and Day foods mentioned in this comprehensive thread

Winter Holiday Celebrations — Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, plus plus

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Oh Ill easily admit to furnishing it closer to glamping than roughing it.

I sleep on a queen sized bed with a 4" foam mattress and a mountain of wool and down blankets

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We eat well, as most of us are good cooks over an open fire, and theres plenty of music and laughter

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Some board games and some cards, but mostly word games and puzzles online. Other jammys really enjoy online strategy games or shootemups.

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Okay, that looks like no camping I’ve ever done. Very nice!

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Same for the two of us. Sunshine is originally from New York and likes to watch the ball drop in Times Square. (that will be 10:00 pm our time) We may or may not be awake at 12:00, if we are – a quick New Year’s kiss then we’ll be asleep.

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Add me to this list, as well.

Sadly, I think its going to get much worse…

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I have a feeling that you’re right.

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Yeah, my idea of camping is checking into a Sheraton.

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Camping and loyalty points, nothing wrong with that!

I realized the first night of a rafting weekend on the Ottawa River, that I was going to be much more comfortable sleeping in the reclined driver’s seat of my car, than in a borrowed tent, set on uneven ground by a friend who had no camping experience, during a thunderstorm.

I booked a rustic cabin for the second night.

I love hiking, I like canoeing, and I love nice resorts with comfortable beds.

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And it’s starting to look like this:

Prawn cocktail

Roast beef sirloin, roast spuds, roast parsnips, cabbage, Yorkshire salad, gravy

Cheese

Lemon tart (bought) or lemon posset (made)

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Sounds perfect to me!

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OK, this one I had to look up - I’ve heard of Yorkshire pudding, of course. Is this it?

" It’s basically a mixture of chopped lettuce, spring onions (scallions) and fresh mint in sweetened malt vinegar."

But your entire meal sounds wonderful! I mean Lemon Posset? What’s not to like? :wink:

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