Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Let’s start with something controversial…dressing or stuffing? What’s it called at your house and what’s included in your recipe…cornbread? oysters? sausage? chestnuts?

Nothing controversial here, Although we know what people mean, we both call it stuffing, and not dressing. Although Hubby came to me liking a sage stuffing he quickly (and me too) adapted my chestnut stuffing into a chestnut/sage stuffing.

2. Who do you sometimes compare yourself to?

I really don’t. I have never thought of myself as being anyone, but myself.

3. When were you last inside an airport?

When I went to Germany in 2010. I think it was in June. But we will be going on a trip in March 2012!

4. What is one side dish that absolutely must be included in a turkey dinner?

Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes and Mashed Butternut Squash. This was last years dinner!

5. What Christmas song do you dread hearing?

The grandma getting run over by a reindeer one. I hate that!

6. If someone approaches you and asks for money do you give it to them? Do you drop money ‘in a tin cup’ that belongs to a person on the street? Do you have a specific charity you support during the holiday season and/or year round?

I always have money in my wallet for The Salvation Army. It is the one charity that I know does good for a large group of people!

7. Share a favorite Thanksgiving memory. If you live in a country that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving share a favorite memory associated with food.

All the family Thanksgivings that I have shared, first with my birth family and cousins, then with my children and then with Hubby. One thing always was that my cousin Janet, who is close in age to me, always managed to sit next to me and we shared the food and usually managed to get into mischief! My older sister, Mel, was usually in charge of the Kids Table!

I do have to say that Thanksgiving is my favorite Meal of the Year. In my family people got to select what they wanted for their birthday meal, and not once would my mother cook turkey for me, as my birthday was the week before Thanksgiving! But, my sister gave me a surprise party a few years ago, and cooked turkey with all the fixings!

Here we are. Me, Mandy, My Uncle George (who is no longer with us, but whom I adored!) and my mother. My cousin, Janet is in the background.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I have so much to be thankful for this year and I feel blessed. Everyone is in good health, they are happy and life, more or less is good.

I wish for you all, out there in blogger land, a very Happy Thanksgiving, and should you not be an American celebrating this day, I wish you a peaceful day.