I just want to know another thing. what you mostly practice on new years eve? any traditions??? Just let me know
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Sadly in Scotland its a tradition that has kind of fell away.
I remember going out just before midnight and meeting all the neighbours who were doing the same and sharing a 'wee half'with them from one of the whisky bottles.
I also remember on occasions being shouted to come back in as it was 12:15 instead of 12:01 wen you are supposed to go back in. Due to the friendliness of the occasion of course, nothing to do with the whisky being passed around!
Are there NYE traditions?
Besides drinking and counting backwards from 10 (getting to zero about 5 seconds before midnight).
I suppose there's singing Auld Lang Syne.
And that thing about carrying a coal miner over the threshold.
And bagpipes and sword dancing.
And reading out Isla St Clair poetry.
It seems the Scots have all the fun.
We invented partying.
In days gone by you could walk down a street at after midnight, walk into any house and be made to feel welcome until the party finished next day early morning!
Sadly those days have long gone.
Hogmanay was always wonderful when I was younger, everyone on our street and the neighbouring street would get together and have so much fun first footing each other. It would continue New Year's day with everyone in one house drinking, eating, singing & telling stories with so much laughter we would have tears rolling down our faces. Wow, just had a wee trip down memory lane to such happy times.
Our Tradition celebrating new year with the Family is eating fondue chinoise, drinking a good wine and watch tv (the all years same repeated program...). On midnight we eat ham Croissants "Schinkengipfeli" and drink champagne or similar. And after we go home
Our Tradition celebrating new year with friends is eating fondue chinoise, drinking a good wine and after we drink and drink and drink... On midnight we drink champagne and blast something with fireworks... After we continue drinking... and on 1.1. we have headache - Cheers
More fondue chinoise?
Actually, I am wondering, since fondue chinoise seems to figure soooooo prominently in holiday dinner things, what besides the actual fondue chinoise (meat and dipping sauces) do you typically have with that meal?
(Don't get me wrong, I like it alright, but usually it is what we have for all the winter birthdays and other celebrations and it gets a bit... less than exciting)
Tradition in switzerland on new years eve is probably obe of the three:
Cheese fondue
Raclette
Chinese fondue
More importanz is to spend it with a group of friends and have a good time.
Maybe organize some "Blei giessen" showing your future.
If living in zurich you can later go see the firework in the city with 1000 of others!
I looooove fondue chinoise....
Besides the meat and sauce, I love the vegetables that give the broth its taste. And normally we eat bread and chips too.
And I do my sauces with plain yoghurt instead of mayonnaise, it's way lighter.
Chinoise is much lighter than bourgignonne, where you use oil instead of broth. It stinks less as well, and the vegetables make it healthier.
We also do are own suaces:
http://www.bettybossi.ch/de/Rezepte/...15_0020A-40-de
To get some ideas. I would replace mayo with yoghurt too.
I am also wondering on which holiday the Swiss actually cook a meal, like Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving? Do they ever cook nice food.
Aussie NY tradition. Pool party!
Had to laugh when I saw the question if swiss evr cook nice food
Big cooking is not very common here; especially no turkey or big roast in the oven. So no such thing as sunday lunch!
Even for dinner most swiss families just have some bread and cheese, pasta, rice or other similar things.
Röschti and Gschnätzlets is probably one of the bigger cooking skills swiss show their guest
You guys don't know what you're missing!
Oh come on, of course we can cook! My grandmum always cooks me a full lunch when she invites me, with nice meat, veg and mashed potatoes plus a great dessert. And an aperitif first of course.
Gratin dauphinois is a typical Sunday lunch dish, with pork roast for instance.
But it's true that we normally eat more for lunch, and have a light dinner.
We drink a lot of this:
The Swiss Kitchen...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_K%C3%BCche
thanks looks good. the new year we prepare every time we are preparing a new food, it is a tradition of our family will never be repeated. Try this really interesting experience .
Rice.
Tom
And even less so in Italy, it' just not the way things are done in Europe in general.
Until I started doing Sunday lunches at my wife's relative's in Italy, none of them had ever seen a chicken (let alone a turkey, pig, or goat) roasted whole at someone's home!
If people here want a Sunday roast, they go out to a restaurant.
Tom