New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Menu (2025)

[lilbopeep]

This is my tentative menu, which may change.

New Year's Eve and Day

Shrimp Cocktail (Medium) and Cocktail Sauce
Spinach Pies - Trader Joe's
Homemade Pigs in a Blanket (cocktail franks and puff pastry)
Pizza Rolls - Store-bought

Salads/Dips:

Kidney & Cannellini Bean Salad
Olive salad
Onion dip
Blue cheese dip
Macaroni Salad
Potato Salad
Salsa
Mushroom Liverwurst Pâté
Bruschetta

Assorted Chips
Toasted sliced Italian Bread

Dessert:

Apple Crumble

Beverage:

Sparkling Cranberry Apple cider
Prosecco

 

[Sass Muffin]

Probably popcorn and iced tea New Year's Eve while watching the ball drop.
Before that nothing planned.

New Year's Day is just another day for me.
Not an occasion to eat celebratory and big.

 

[QSis]

This is my tentative menu, which may change.

New Year's Eve and Day

Shrimp Cocktail (Medium) and Cocktail Sauce
Spinach Pies - Trader Joe's
Homemade Pigs in a Blanket (cocktail franks and puff pastry)
Pizza Rolls - Store-bought

Salads/Dips:

Kidney & Cannellini Bean Salad
Olive salad
Onion dip
Blue cheese dip
Macaroni Salad
Potato Salad
Salsa
Mushroom Liverwurst Pâté
Bruschetta

Assorted Chips
Toasted sliced Italian Bread

Dessert:

Apple Crumble

Beverage:

Sparkling Cranberry Apple cider
Prosecco

My kind of menu!

I will be making a few snacks for two of my friends (Kathy and Babs) and I, early in the evening over cocktails. They each live 2 doors away from me (I'm in the middle), so no driving. None of us will be awake for the ball drop.

Lee

 

[lilbopeep]

 

[Sass Muffin]

 

[QSis]

Had the girls over for appetizers and cocktails tonight. I did have a martini.

They had shrimp cocktails for them. I also served a ring of cocktail sausage with Dijon, and in my stepmother's antique Lazy Susan were storebought tempura shrimp with my soy ginger sauce, truffle jack cheese and crackers, crispy pea snacks (Kathy loves them), and my family's Cheese 'n Shits on pumpernickel and rye party breads.

Then we opened a bottle of prosecco that Babs brought over last year and it's been in my fridge ever since. Delicious!

America's Funniest Videos in the background of our talking. A great evening!

Happy New Year, all!

Lee

 

[Kathleen]

I got a Jamon Iberico leg for pennies on the pound. Am having a bit of it tonight with cheese and fruit. Mance is sad that he is not getting a big plate...but just with the ham.

We will have a lot of leftovers, so 2026 may bring to you lots of items made with left over Jamon!

 

[QSis]

Wow, what a beautiful cat! Ham is nice, too, lol!

Lee

 

[Kathleen]

@QSis He is a love-bug too. The girls weigh a bit over 9 lbs. Mance weighs 16lbs. He is so laid back unless he thinks something or someone is troubling his sisters.