Turkey Day Meme
24 November 2005 Comments Off- 1. What are you thankful for this year?
- I am thankful that in a little over a month I am going home to see my family for the first time in three and a half years.
- 2. Does your family eat turkey or ham for the Thanksgiving meal? Or do you do both? Or do you do something completely different?
- Traditionally, my dad’s family eats fried bread dough for Thanksgiving. (I wrote about this last year. You can read more about our fried bread tradition here.) My mom’s side of the family is more traditional and serves a good old turkey.
- 3. What’s your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?
- No question about it… stuffing! (I also wrote about this last year and even included a recipe!)
- 4. What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
- My favorite dessert is one that is always served on Mom’s side of the family and is a Norwegian dessert called lefsa/lefse. It is essentially a fried potato pancake with a butter and brown sugar mixture stuffed inside. When my great-grandma and grandma were still alive they made it for all our holidays. Now that they are both gone my mom makes it… I really need to have her show me how to make it when I am home in January.
- 5. Are you going out shopping on Black Friday? If not, what are you going to do on the day after Thanksgiving?
- Since A. and I don’t celebrate Christmas I don’t have to do any shopping tomorrow (Thank God!) and because it is not a holiday weekend here in Germany, I will just be doing the same things that I do every day.
Happy Thanksgiving! 
