It's Saturday Night -
Time For More Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to:
A) This is a fun meme from
2016, thanks to Suzanne McClendon on the P.S. Annie blog for the
links.
B) Fill in the blanks for
these four statements:
1. One Thanksgiving tradition I
have is __________________________.
2. Black Friday
______________________________________________.
3. The best part about
Thanksgiving Day is _______________________.
4. One Thanksgiving,
_________________________________________.
C) Tell us about it in your
own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.
Here’s mine:
Well, it’s not Saturday night, but Sunday morning, after
being up super early due to the end of Daylight Savings Time.
1. One Thanksgiving tradition I have is fixing stuffing/dressing
made of cornbread and bread cubes, with onions, celery, and hard-boiled egg
crumbles, and putting the turkey giblets and hard-boiled egg into the gravy.
This is a tradition passed down from my Texas-born grandmother, Pansy Louise
Lancaster Johnston. I wish I had asked how she learned it. Likely from her own
mother, Lela Nell Loveless Lancaster. My daughters don’t care for stuffing, so
I doubt it will be passed on in my immediate family. Who knows, maybe one of my
siblings will.
2. Black Friday never had any tradition growing up. As kids,
it was a day to play. As an adult, I did spend a couple of Black Fridays with
my mother-in-law, Thelma Nilsen Gorrell shopping at the mall and other stores
in the Sacramento area.
3. The best part about Thanksgiving Day is eating a meal
with family. Most of the time it is turkey. When our parents were alive, it was
often tough to make decisions on which house to go to. Norman’s sister came
down from Idaho every other Thanksgiving, which gave us more pressure to go up
to his parent’s house. Sometimes my mother hosted, and sometimes one of my
brothers or sisters hosted. One year, we went to my Aunt June’s home.
4. One Thanksgiving, we all got sick with Hong Kong flu. It
didn’t happen at once, but over the weekend, each of us succumbed to it and we were
sick well into the following week.
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I love that you, too, have a stuffing recipe passed down in the family. It's sad that your daughters don't like stuffing. I like stuffing more than the turkey - even more than the dessert. You'll have to encourage your siblings to pass it down then!
ReplyDeleteWe all have the recipe because my mother made us recipe books when we married. So there is a chance. I agree. The dressing is the best part of Thanksgiving.
DeleteMy maternal grandmother made stuffing with all of the ingredients you mentioned. It was the best stuffing ever. Sadly I never got that recipe either.
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