This is what I have planned.
New Year's Eve
Homemade Chinese food
By homemade I mean from two frozen bagged entrees -- P.F. Chang's Mongolian Beef and Orange Chicken, supplemented with additional veggies.
Steamed rice
Tangerines
New Year's Day
Everyone is on their own for breakfast and lunch.
For dinner:
Pot-roasted beef Heel Roast and gravy
Black-eyed peas, peppers, and onions
Oven-roasted sweet potato cubes
Oven-roasted broccoli florets
Spiced apples and cranberries
Either a pumpkin pie or Christmas cookies (Dessert depends on if my son and daughter-in-law come over. Cookies if just us, a pie if they join us.)
Perhaps you're wondering what a heel roast is. Since I've been buying beef directly from a rancher, I've learned a lot about many cuts of beef. A heel roast is also known as Heel of Round. It's a tougher cut, needing slow-cooking, like braising or pot-roasting. It also works well for stew meat. It's lean, flavorful, and an economical cut, when you can find them. Here's another name for a cut you may not be familiar with -- English Roast. An English Roast is cut from the shoulder, like a Chuck Roast, but the English is leaner than the Chuck Roast. Both require low and slow cooking. Anyway, I'll be pot-roasting the Heel Roast tomorrow.
What's on your menu for tonight and tomorrow?
Wishing you a very joyful celebration and happy year ahead! 2026, we''re expecting great things from you.
There’s always good food planned at your house. Tonight, New Year’s Eve, we’re having leftover lentil stew. Tomorrow, I am cocking pork and sauerkraut in the crockpot. That is something I grew up with for NewYears Day and haven’t done for a long time.
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