Does the "New Year's Eve" family still cook 12 dishes?

Of course, I can cook 12 dishes. My home is in the northeast, and all the New Year's Eve dinners are eaten at grandma's house. Grandma must have 12 dishes, maybe more than 12 dishes. Grandma has four children. She is going to her home for the Spring Festival on the 30th. There must be more than a dozen people. So 12 dishes are not too many. I think cooking New Year's Eve while chatting with relatives is also a taste of Chinese New Year.

The biggest feature of our family's New Year's Eve dinner is meat, all kinds of meat. Elbow meat, pig's feet, pig's ears, pig's head meat ... just talking about pork can get you a big platter. The old man must let the children chew a pig's paw and scratch it. Not to mention mutton, beef and chicken, in short, all the meat that can be eaten at ordinary times can be served at the New Year's Eve.

Where there is meat, there must be fish. Generally, a big fish is served directly on the table, steamed or stewed or braised. Put it in the middle of the dining table, symbolizing more than one year. There will be all kinds of seafood, shrimp is a must, and there will be crabs, shrimp crawlers and so on.

After eating meat and fish, let's talk about vegetables. My family's favorite cold dish is cold vermicelli cabbage, which tastes refreshing and greasy, and is usually served directly in a big bowl. There will also be all kinds of cooking, kidney beans, sauerkraut, and there will definitely be some wild vegetables that grandma doesn't know where to dig.

In fact, a dozen dishes seem to be many, and there is not much left after eating. Grandma will also give the rest of the dishes to families, so there is no waste.

People say that "New Year's Eve is the most important meal in China", so it is naturally the biggest meal for a family in a year.

I am born after 70. I remember that when I was a child, the family's New Year's Eve dinner was basically 4-6 dishes, but meat and fish would be available even if they were unpalatable. At that time, four people in the family could eat so many dishes, especially the soft and rotten big fat slices, which felt like the "most abundant" gluttonous meal.

At the beginning of the Spring Festival Gala, I heard from my neighbor that her family was going to put 10 dishes in the New Year. When I came back, I described to my mother in envious language: "People have 10 dishes in the New Year! Mom listened and said, "We also cook 10 this year!" Don't mention the excitement. I'm going out to show off 10 dishes, and I'm going to cook them at home for the New Year.

Remember 10' s dishes, fried shrimp slices, fried peanuts, radish mixed with heart, all served! But it really made me "show off" in front of my friends for a long time

Later, the living standard improved, my brother and I got married and had children, and the person in charge of our family's New Year's Eve dinner became me!

My family has been cooking twelve dishes every year for nearly 20 years since I was in charge! All the dishes are put in a big plate. Although you can't eat it, it's just an old saying that "there is more money at home"! Moreover, the Chinese New Year is auspicious and festive, and the dishes on the New Year's Eve must be even, with twelve dishes representing the past twelve months. I think only by putting the dishes on a big table can there be an atmosphere and excitement for the New Year! The following is the menu of my family's New Year's Eve dinner:

Let me answer a question. According to my own actual situation, my family doesn't cook 12 food now. I won't allow it. At the present diet level, it's a waste. Therefore, this tradition, which has been handed down all the time, came to me and was broken by me.

When I was a child, my parents were the heads of the family, and this tradition was always maintained at the New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's Day is the most important festival in China at any time. In addition, in previous years, people's living economy was not very good. Usually, big fish and big meat were not enough to eat, so in traditional festivals, they all killed chickens and geese to buy fish and pork. . . . Wait a minute.

One is a holiday, and the other is greed. After all, there was really little meat before. I don't eat much on weekdays.

But I got married myself, so I stopped doing it. Now this generation is not short of food, and my children and I have nothing to eat on weekdays.

From KFC to food stalls, hotels and snack takeout, everything is available. I really don't lack food, like children now, KFC, steak, and buffet since kindergarten. Now people eat less. Now there are four people in a family, old and young. Even if there are six people in other families, 12 dishes can't be eaten.

Take ordinary families as an example, good dishes and special dishes can't be cooked. Whether it's good meat or expensive seafood, the practice is just to cook at home.

My hometown is Chaozhou, Guangdong. There is no traditional 12 dish, what to eat for the New Year's Eve? Hot pot.

Just use the induction cooker to serve hot pot and eat whatever you want. Fresh meat is bought in the market, and others are in the refrigerator like sea overlord. You can't finish it the first day and the next day. You can eat as much as you want, and you won't waste it.

To sum up, people nowadays don't worry about eating and don't want to eat. They can eat as many dishes as they want. On weekdays, everyone is very busy and there is little time for parties. Now what they eat in the New Year is an atmosphere.

In my opinion, no tradition is unconventional. In fact, many traditions are gradually being abolished now. The most obvious is the fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year. Time is ruthless, just live happily.

Someone must have cooked 12 on the New Year's Eve. Many people get together to eat at home. If ten people eat, there must be 12 dishes.

In the past, two days before New Year's Eve, nine people were invited to dinner at home. I remember I cooked ten dishes and one soup, and each dish was full. The soup is a whole pot of chicken soup.

Finally, there is no food left. Basically get together to eat like this, and it is unlikely to eat too much. Even if a big man carries a small bowl, the consumption of food will be quite large. People who can drink will talk while drinking.

So according to the standard of one person and one dish, it is basically enough to prepare one or two more dishes. People who drink are especially good at eating vegetables. If people who eat don't drink, and their fighting capacity is not strong, then it is ok to cook a dish according to the number of people.

But I think this is a more economical algorithm, because I personally don't like leftovers, so I decided to do it.

However, some people are very picky at home. Although there are not many people eating, there are various styles of dishes at home, and the number of dishes must be enough. Indeed, it's the New Year, so you have to look like it, and all the dishes are available, so that the flavor of the year is strong.

There are many children at home during the Spring Festival in the countryside. It's the Spring Festival, and everyone goes home for reunion. There must be more food 12.

Does the "New Year's Eve" family still cook 12 dishes? 12 courses are really not many. I estimate that many families will exceed this number.

Xinyang, the southernmost city in Henan Province, is a rare place in Henan Province to eat New Year's Eve dinner instead of jiaozi. When I was a child, I thought the New Year's Eve dinner was very lively. Get up in the morning, the kitchen is full of fireworks. The bacon stewed on the stove and the salty taste make people drool. Speaking of twelve-course New Year's Eve dinner, there must be only a lot. First of all, there are preserved chicken, sausage, bacon, preserved fish and so on. Hot dishes include fish, mutton hot pot, stewed chicken soup, egg dumplings, all of which are my mother's specialties, and chicken feet with soy sauce … my mother's taste.

Did you cook 12 food at home on New Year's Eve?

In the past, every family ate New Year's Eve dinner, and most of them used 12 dishes as the standard to prepare cooking ingredients. Here, in the past, the New Year's Eve dinner was usually four dishes and eight bowls, which was a custom handed down from tradition. In the era of material shortage, the New Year's Eve dinner is made of twelve dishes, and the content of each dish is similar.

"Four plates and eight bowls" means four plates and eight bowls. According to the requirements of traditional customs, the dishes of New Year's Eve are mainly pork, fish and chicken. The contents of these twelve dishes are almost the same for every household.

But it's different now, and the materials are very rich. In addition to cooking traditional dishes, many families continue to reform and innovate many dishes.

So now the New Year's Eve dinner is much richer than before, ranging from 12 dishes to 20 dishes and 30 dishes!

There are almost no leftovers in my New Year's Eve dinner, which has nothing to do with how many dishes I cook. Just look at these 12 dishes. Are they delicious?

I'm the second sister. I'll answer the question whether there are any 12 dishes at home for the New Year.

So do you still keep the saying of 12 dishes on New Year's Eve? My second sister thinks the answer should be yes. Many friends have this habit. Moreover, my second sister thinks that 12 is not an exact number, but makes us feel that it should be a little more and more uniform. Because the even number stands for yes man, the number of this dish is also very auspicious in our old saying. There is always a saying that 12 dishes, but it does not mean that 12 dishes must be cooked. You can cook 16 dishes when there are many people, and 8 dishes when there are few people. These are all ok. Although they are 12 dishes here, they are auspicious.

If there are many people, you can prepare 12 dishes without cold dishes. Before meals, you can put nuts such as fruits and peanuts on the table, and then put some drinks or sugar water on it. Before that, my second sister also made cans for my family. It's delicious. It feels delicious. Generally, relatives and friends will put these on the table when they come, and then put some candy on the table. When a family chats, they usually put these foods on the table. After a while, we will start to be busy with the New Year's Eve dinner together. If there are many people eating New Year's Eve, cold dishes can also be included. For example, fried meatballs and vegetarian meatballs can be made into patterns and placed on the table, which can be eaten as cold dishes. Another cold dish can make a colorful face lift. Put all the ingredients such as shredded radish and shredded cucumber evenly on the plate, then stir the sweet sesame sauce, put a little pork sauce on it, and prepare a clean chopstick to stir it when serving, so that the colorful face-lifting will be rich and delicious.

Choice of main course: Second sister will also put some sauce pig's ears or pig's trotters to heat as one of the main courses. This is a very important meat dish with a good moral. Generally, some pork food will be prepared, which also symbolizes that everything goes well.

Of course, fish is also indispensable. It is said that there is an old saying that there is more than one year. That is to say, fish is needed to make this New Year's Eve look dull, so the second sister will prepare two big fish for the family to braise in soy sauce. In addition, the children at home also like to eat cicada pupa, and it is also delicious for the second sister to cook cicada pupa for the family, which is one of the delicacies that the second sister will cook for the family on New Year's Eve. In addition, stir-fry a pig's belly with green pepper, prepare prawns or seafood, prepare some vegetarian dishes and stir-fry some meat dishes for family members, so that the New Year's Eve dinner will be very rich.

The above is the second sister's answer about cooking 12 dishes on New Year's Eve.

Yes, if many children go back to the old people's home for the New Year together, it will be lively, and they will cook a table of dishes, 12 dishes. The number of dishes in 12 is also auspicious, and the variety is not small, which brings together the dishes that everyone likes to eat.

Then, many families will decide how many dishes to cook according to the number of people in the family on New Year's Eve, because if there are not many people, they don't have to cook too many kinds of dishes, just do what they like, because health is advocated now, and many leftovers will be wasted, and it is not healthy to eat leftovers the next day. So, you must cook a few dishes tonight, there is no special stress.

Finally, in many places, we eat first, that is, some vegetables and soup, and then the whole family will watch the Spring Festival Gala together, including jiaozi, so there will be jiaozi to eat later, so it's good for everyone, and you can come if you like.

There is no need to order many dishes. Being together as a family is the happiest New Year's Eve, isn't it? Look at the New Year's Eve dinner prepared by Sister Yan. Do you like it? See the home page for detailed tutorials.