The clock is ticking on 2025 and the new year is hovering, waiting to be properly welcomed.
We have a tradition of boiling lobster on New Year’s Eve when we have family at Glover Gardens, but this is one of our quiet, empty-nester holiday seasons and it’s just us at Gumbo Cove on the Mississippi Coast.
The crustaceans of choice tonight are shrimp from Kimball’s, our local purveyor of fresh seafood. Woohoo! There’ll be a seafood boil below-decks come sundown.
And then tomorrow, with the leftovers, we’ll make our Seafood Boil Chowder.
These are two of the most popular recipes in the Glover Gardens collection (by click counts), and it’s easy to understand why. Seafood boils are easy, nourishing and delicious, and yet you feel like you’re being spoiled. They are a one-pot celebratory banquet. We are excited for tonight’s repast!
The bread we’ll serve with both meals is focaccia, which I’ve just perfected. Give it a try!
There will be fireworks we can see from our little bay camp on the bayou, and this quiet celebration is exactly what we need.
What are YOU doing this New Year’s Eve? What is your meal of choice, and how are you celebrating?
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Enjoy.
Happy New Year, Kim.
Thank you so much! I truly appreciate your connection and engagement with my posts the whole year long. And I hope I have been equally as present on your well-deserving site.
Happy new year! We are at home for the celebrations, having been away over Christmas. The traditional dinner for New Year’s Day here is steak pie but for obvious reasons we aren’t having that – I’m thinking veggie lasagne.
Oh, that sounds lovely. Lasagna is a great vehicle for veggies – we love our wild mushroom lasagna. Happy New Year and happy travels in 2026.
I can report it was very good and went down well.
I bet it was!!! i always think of you and my other vegetarian friends when I post a new recipe.