New Year's 2025, Good Luck/Bad Luck Foods and Crazy Leftover To-Dos!
01/02/25 • 26 min
Could There be Gold in that Pork Roast and Doom in the Chicken? New Year's Foods to eat for an extra plateful of good luck.
Welcome to 2025! In this special New Year’s edition of Family Tree Food & Stories, Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely kick off the year with some quirky traditions.🎉
Did you know eating chicken 🐔 on New Year’s could potentially give you a bowl of bad luck? Or that a sauerkraut shred might be the key to riches? In this episode of Family Tree Food & Stories, we're spilling the beans (and the sauerkraut) on bizarre New Year’s food superstitions that might get you to reconsider your midnight menu.
But don’t worry—there’s also some good luck on the horizon or in the kitchen! And what's a New Year's celebration without fireworks or a fire? . . seriously! This one includes that old and stale gingerbread house collecting dust on your island countertop.
There's a lot more in store in this next episode of Family Tree, Food & Stories, so grab your favorite drink, kick back, and join us for an entertaining end to 2024 and a delicious start, one story, one laugh, and one lucky bite at a time to 2025.
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Do you have a story to share on the Family Tree, Food & Stories show? Send us your story to review, and you can win a chance to have your family story on the show! Here's the link to share your story with us now.
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About Your Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, an Omnimedia company that celebrates the rich traditions and connections that everyone has around food, friends, and family meals together. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, lawyer, and former CEO, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.
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Could There be Gold in that Pork Roast and Doom in the Chicken? New Year's Foods to eat for an extra plateful of good luck.
Welcome to 2025! In this special New Year’s edition of Family Tree Food & Stories, Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely kick off the year with some quirky traditions.🎉
Did you know eating chicken 🐔 on New Year’s could potentially give you a bowl of bad luck? Or that a sauerkraut shred might be the key to riches? In this episode of Family Tree Food & Stories, we're spilling the beans (and the sauerkraut) on bizarre New Year’s food superstitions that might get you to reconsider your midnight menu.
But don’t worry—there’s also some good luck on the horizon or in the kitchen! And what's a New Year's celebration without fireworks or a fire? . . seriously! This one includes that old and stale gingerbread house collecting dust on your island countertop.
There's a lot more in store in this next episode of Family Tree, Food & Stories, so grab your favorite drink, kick back, and join us for an entertaining end to 2024 and a delicious start, one story, one laugh, and one lucky bite at a time to 2025.
💫Share your story with us:
Do you have a story to share on the Family Tree, Food & Stories show? Send us your story to review, and you can win a chance to have your family story on the show! Here's the link to share your story with us now.
Additional Links
- Book: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on Amazon
- Instagram 📸
- FaceBook 👍
About Your Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, an Omnimedia company that celebrates the rich traditions and connections that everyone has around food, friends, and family meals together. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, lawyer, and former CEO, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.
#familytreefoodstories, #familystories #familymeals #family #NewYear2025 #luckyfoods #newyearssuperstitions #familytraditions #foodiefun #gingerbreadhouses #fermentedfoods #glutenfree #stories @familytreefoodstories
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How to Eat Your Leftover Christmas Tree: For Real!
How to Eat Your Christmas Tree and Create a Deliciously Unusual Holiday Tradition 🎄
What do you do with a leftover Christmas tree? Toss it? Compost it? Nope—how about eating it? Yes, you heard that right! In this Family Tree, Food & Stories episode, we’re setting the table with a new way to turn your bedazzled Christmas tree into a gourmet treat.
From sweet pine syrups to pine needle tea, baking with your tree's bark (and a treat you can bite), and even pine-infused ice cream, Nancy May, co-host of Family Tree, Food & Stories explains how to create an unforgettable—and even new eco-friendly—family tradition.
You might think eating your Christmas tree is a bit weird, but your new gastronomic adventure will be the ultimate conversation starter for next year’s Christmas table or even at your New Year's celebration.
Join us for laughter, recipes, and maybe even a new holiday tradition that will keep your family talking for generations. After all, wouldn’t it be fun to say, “Remember when Aunt Nancy made us eat the tree?”
🌟 Tune in, get inspired, and let’s make your Christmas leftovers a story worth sharing!
💫Share your story with us:
Do you have a story to share on the Family Tree, Food & Stories show? Send us your story to review, and you can win a chance to have your family story on the show! Here's the link to share your story with us now.
Additional Links
- Book: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on Amazon
- Instagram 📸
- FaceBook 👍
About Your Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, an Omnimedia company that celebrates the rich traditions and connections that everyone has around food, friends, and family meals together. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, lawyer, and former CEO, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.
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The Curious Case of the Flying Roast!
How a pre-colonoscopy walk turned into a wild surprise and a mysterious roast thief!
📌In this next episode of Family Tree Food & Stories - What do you get when you mix a colonoscopy prep, an overexcited Goldendoodle, and a "found"three-pound beef roast in the middle of a walking trail? It's a story that’s almost too wild to believe!
In this episode, Co-Host Sylvia Lovely recounts a chaotic journey to wrestle a juicy roast from her dog’s jaws—all while enduring the delightful side effects of her “prep.” Honestly, this one still offers a good laugh and some peanut butter to the rescue at just the right moment. It's not what you think!
Tune in for the ultimate reminder that sometimes the most mundane food experiences can become unforgettable stories. This is one example of how to turn an experience into something you'll laugh about at the dinner table with family and friends for years. It is undoubtedly worthy of a good roast recipe, too.
💫Share your story with us:
Do you have a story to share on the Family Tree, Food & Stories show? Send us your story to review, and you can win a chance to have your family story on the show! Here's the link to share your story with us now.
Additional Links
- Book: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on Amazon
- Instagram 📸
- FaceBook 👍
About Your Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, an Omnimedia company that celebrates the rich traditions and connections that everyone has around food, friends, and family meals together. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, lawyer, and former CEO, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.
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Family Tree Food Stories - New Year's 2025, Good Luck/Bad Luck Foods and Crazy Leftover To-Dos!
Transcript
Happy New Year, Sylvia. Can you believe it's 2025?
Sylvia LovelyNo. Oh, no. But, you know, there's some good things about 2025. too much to go into, but you and I have had our challenges, but, hey, we're ready. Let's go for it, okay? Hey, one thing I wanted to tell you, though, this is the only time of the year you want to be a loser.
Nancy Mayyeah.
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