Italian traditions at New Year's include getting rid of old possessions by throwing them out the window just after the stroke of midnight in hopes of forgetting old transgressions and letting yourself have room for new happiness in the new year. While this is certainly a way to create new energy in your house, be careful when throwing out old furniture like sofas, beds, and pianos.
It is also tradition to eat some tasty food either on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Pork sausage with lentils is a feast worthy of bringing new abundance and prosperity to the family who eats them. Lentils represent money such as coins and the sausage is representing the bags that hold the coins. Leave it to Italians to think of money in terms of food.
Lentils have much the same consistency as black eyed peas which would explain perhaps why black eyed peas and lentils have the same mystique for prosperity and abundance at New Year's. Pigs symbolize abundance as the pigs are rooted firmly in the ground where the material wealth is located. Pigs push forward and and ground themselves firmly before walking and are staunch, fat, and meaty also representing abundance and wealth.
To make pork sausage and lentils, we will need sweet pork sausage and lentils of course. To add to this meaty and spicy dish, we will take half a cup of diced bacon and sautee the bacon until it is cooked. Remove the bacon and add two tablespoons of olive oil and add a medium sized diced onion, one diced carrot, a clove of minced garlic, and a fennel bulb diced. Sautee all these ingredients until done. Add the bacon again and mix together and sautee for a minute.
Remove ingredients and brown the sausage in the same skillet. Take out the sausage and and return the vegetables to the skillet and add one medium diced tomato and a bay leaf. Simmer for twenty minutes and then add the sausage and heat through for about five to ten minutes.
It is also tradition to eat some tasty food either on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Pork sausage with lentils is a feast worthy of bringing new abundance and prosperity to the family who eats them. Lentils represent money such as coins and the sausage is representing the bags that hold the coins. Leave it to Italians to think of money in terms of food.
Lentils have much the same consistency as black eyed peas which would explain perhaps why black eyed peas and lentils have the same mystique for prosperity and abundance at New Year's. Pigs symbolize abundance as the pigs are rooted firmly in the ground where the material wealth is located. Pigs push forward and and ground themselves firmly before walking and are staunch, fat, and meaty also representing abundance and wealth.
To make pork sausage and lentils, we will need sweet pork sausage and lentils of course. To add to this meaty and spicy dish, we will take half a cup of diced bacon and sautee the bacon until it is cooked. Remove the bacon and add two tablespoons of olive oil and add a medium sized diced onion, one diced carrot, a clove of minced garlic, and a fennel bulb diced. Sautee all these ingredients until done. Add the bacon again and mix together and sautee for a minute.
Remove ingredients and brown the sausage in the same skillet. Take out the sausage and and return the vegetables to the skillet and add one medium diced tomato and a bay leaf. Simmer for twenty minutes and then add the sausage and heat through for about five to ten minutes.
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