Happy New Year! We are hosting a simple New Year’s Day dinner of roast turkey with fixins

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And my favorite is an old timey Pennsylvania Dutch Green Bean recipe. Enjoy!

3 slices bacon

1 medium onion, chopped

2 teaspoons cornstarch

1 teaspoon salt

1â„2 teaspoon dry mustard

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons vinegar

1 lb fresh green beans, cut into short lengths and cooked or 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen cut green beans or 2 (1 lb) canscut string beans, cooked

1 cup fresh water (or water from cooked frozen bean or 1/2 cup liquid from can plus 1/2 cup water)

DIRECTIONS

Fry bacon until crisp and drain on paper towel.

Saute onion in bacon fat until golden.In small bowl, mix cornstarch, salt, mustard,sugar and vinegar.

Add liquid from beans and beat until smooth.

Add this mixture to bacon fat in pan and boil until thickened slightly.

Add green beans and stir well.

Crush bacon and sprinkle on top.

May be garnished with sliced hard cooked egg.

MY NOTES

I add grainy prepared mustard instead of dry mustard and 4 cans green beans. Wonderful side dish and 1 hard boiled egg diced is a nice topping.

 
Broken Freezer = Roasted Meats New Year's Day

I discovered my garage freezer had stopped working sometime between Christmas Dinner (which was on the 28th) and yesterday. It's still cold, but everything is now thawed. Ugh.

So I'm cleaning out the freezer and roasting lots of meat today.

Just what I had in mind after all the cooking I've been doing.

 
The Broken Freezer Menu

This is not what I wanted to be doing today after all the cooking of the last 2 weeks. Plus, 3 days into a nasty cold and I am just drained.

My neighbors, friends, and I will be feasting on:

18 pounds of pork ribs, chops, steaks, and roasts slathered in barbeque sauce, covered with foil, and slow baked to falling apart doneness

6 pounds of beef tenderloin, rib-eye, and t-bone steaks simmering in 1/2 gallon of concentrated chicken stock which will be used to cook 5 pounds of assorted now-not-frozen veggies for vegetable beef soup.

4 pounds of sockeye salmon roasting seasoned with Ozark Seasoning.

6 loaves of assorted homemade salt-rising, rye, and whole wheat breads.

5 pounds of ground round that had been buried at the bottom of the freezer and was a little old. The dachshunds will be dining on it this week.

A large dish of cherry crisp as I bid adieu to the last of the picked, pitted, and frozen cherries from my tree I had been saving for a cherry pie (no energy to make pie).

In the toss pile were homemade German carrot soup, chicken and dumplings, chicken gravy, spareribs and sauerkraut, Cincinnati chili, and several other things that I would have used on those nights when the fridge was empty and I didn't feel like cooking, if they hadn't been buried in the hoarde.

So, my new year's resolution is to never do this again. No matter the bargain on meat, if I don't need it that week, I will not be buying it. And this is going to save money in the longrun since I will stop hoarding sale meat and we will be disposing of the 2nd refrigerator-freezer we've kept in the garage for my excess bargain shopping habit.

My 2019 will be the year of "out with the clutter!".

I feel better all ready.

 
Richard, so very sorry to hear of the death of your garage freezer

Paring down frozen is one of my annual New Year's resolutions smileys/wink.gif Heading back into new house freezer - "organizing" it for garbage day this morning before I saw your post. Colleen

 
What an awful thing to have happen...I am sure I would have taken most of it down to the nearest

homeless shelter for them to cook. No way could I have handled all that food in my kitchen all at once.

 
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