New Years Eve Traditions, got a good one? New Milford CT and Andrea celebrate the New Year!
My husband has a few different traditions than I do. for one, New Years Eve is when Det Moroz delivers presents, not Christmas. I can go for the whole gift giving event again, I admit it! Over the years we have melded our traditions together and made a few changes as we ourselves change. We don't drink (ok, I might have a drink or 2 every once in a blue moon, but he doesn't drink at all) so that is not in the plan for New Years Eve. He loves to eat, and we usually prepare some of his favorite Russian foods. I make a mean Salad Olivier which is a cold pototo salad with meat in it, I use ham, and we always make carrot salad and beet salad, I beg him to make a deep fried meat pie called Beliashi that will knock your socks off. We eat until we are ready to explode. Blini would be just an added extra to put us over the top. I like mine with either cavier and sour cream, smoked salmon and sour cream or hard boiled eggs mixed with melted butter. Or perhaps my most favorite pancake called Oladushki, I love them cold, warm, anyway you want to make them for me!
Used to be at midnight we would write our wish for the new year on a piece of paper and quickly burn it over our champagne-type drink, then drink the wish. But after a while I just wanted to do something different. A few years ago I checked out traditions from other countries and we blended a few of them together. As the Chinese do, the house had to be cleaned before the New Years Celebration. Somewhere I read about tossing a dustpan of dirt out the back door before midnite, that is NOT Chinese, and I can't find it anywhere now, but we did it. Then we opened the back door at midnite to let the old year out and raced to the front door to let the new year in. Whew, it was hard work. I missed my traditional New Years Rockin Eve watch the ball drop stuff that year! (That tradition I might add is boring, nothing really interesting about it at all!)
I am in the midst of looking for a new thing to do this New Years. So if you have any interesting traditions please let me know! We just might incorporate them into our celebration this year. I am always looking for something different to do on New Years Eve! And remember, I have two chances to celebrate, so bring it on!
If you are in the New Milford area and looking for something different to do, how about an evening at Theatreworks in New Milford CT? Check it out, great food and drink, a wonderful show, and a champagne toast at midnite!
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