A steak pie day

Being that it is the first day of the new year, there is a tradition in Scotland to have a steak pie.

The steak pie became the national New Year’s dinner dish in Scotland because New Year’s Day was not traditionally taken as a holiday. (Western society has only been celebrating New Year for the past 400 years.) Families were too busy to cook and bought big steak pies from their local butcher instead.

Happy New Year to you all, and I wish you a prosperous and happy 2015.