New Year's Day menu? Scottish posters don't need to respond!

[Kirriemuir]

As I assume its steak pie!!!

What are you having and do you do a special meal on NYD?

We are lentil soup, steak pie and then ice cream. Same lunch on NYD for 40 years!

My mum used to always have a vienetta!

Much prefer and look forward to New Year's Day dinner to Christmas dinner. So will be having steak pie cured many a Hogmanay hangover!

With you on the pastry. We have steak pie on Hogmanay - late dinner. Lines the stomach and all that

I am Scottish and am highly offended at your thread because I am a veggie.

We used to go to Chinese restaurant on new years day

It has to be a fancy steak pie with links in it though

I think traditionally it's meant to be Hogmanay dinner

My Nana used to make it Hogmanay she made a massive 1 and there was left over for next days dinner if anybody came

I didn't read the thread first and x post with all the other sausage lovers/haters

I don't actually bother on New Year's Day with anything special at all, I am that sick of food and the decorations will have been away since the 27th, it's all over isn't it? New Years Day tends to see me start with another New Year's resolution to lose weight and run a marathon so will probably be plain grilled meat or fish and a salad.

White stovies are the onion and potatoes cooked in beef stock, was brought up poor, we couldn't always afford the meat. Still like them though :)

Hogmanay dinner was always tattie soup and a,choice of tripe or stovies.

No idea how the sausages in steak pie have passed me by, is it a regional thing? And, yes to thick pastry, with a bit of chewyness to the underneath.

White stovies sound lovely something different from. Just mash

I'm having stovies on Friday it's only me and Dd 2 that like them and it's only me and her in I'm so looking forward to them

Holy shit, I'm Scottish, no one told us we were supposed to eat steak pie. We're planning jumbalya.

Damn, how did we get that so wrong. Ffs , you'd think someone would have mentioned it. 😂

Exactly Mrs jay, a change from mash :) 3 of us love stovies but ds1 says he doesn't like potatoes! Still manages to force down a fish supper.

Bluntness, are you sure you are Scottish? :o

Got to love how a thread that says "Scottish people need not respond" attracts all the Scottish MNetters 😂

Do you cook the wee Willie winkies 1st then add or add them in to cook with the meat?

I think I'll have roast turkey on new years day since I'm having a Indian on xmas day.

I just add them to cook with the meat, but nearer the end - around 45 minutes before I'm due to serve up, otherwise they turn to mush (that'll be down to the high meat content )

I did pulled pork a couple of years ago. It went down well.

My mum always gets a butchers steak pie but my MIL makes her own which I love.

I've just made the pie filling today to freeze.
No idea what dessert will be yet, maybe profiteroles, or I might make a trifle

My gran always had vienetta on New Year's Day. There was always a few in her freezer.

She always did Turkey too. One year we had "turkeygate" Her neighbour was home for once and the 2 of them hit the whiskey. My mum gets my dad through to carve the turkey and its raw! So somehow they have to try and cook this turkey. My gran keeps having a go at them for taking so long. Her and her neighbour are pished! So after the dinner my gran gets the drambuie out. Then knocks my mum's over. My mum gets one heck of a telling off before my gran says "and there's none left so you won't get anymore!" About 20 minutes later she goes and gets another bottle but won't give my mum any. My brother and his partner make their excuses to go home and my dad drives them! I'm stuck doing the dishes.

My gran died and we found her diaries. Dh asks when Turkeygate may have been and said the diary entry said "Had the family round. Don't think it went well!"

We still laugh about it.

We often went to a hotel for New Year, they always brought stovies round after the bells.

How big is a giant Vienetta? I'm trying to imagine proportions

Leg o lamb. It's my day for my favourite meat

KC225 it's about twice the size of a standard one I think. Only comes in vanilla though. I loved the mint ones!

We'll just eat whatever. Maybe have a Chinese take out. (not Scottish) Not entertaining so not thinking that far ahead.