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Happy Hump Day to you and yours!  Anyone else having a case of the "short week feels longer than a regular week" yet or does that hit tomorrow? Unfortunately, Monday afternoon the tweens/teens found the pool not too far from the abode so we got to listen to the hootings of young, insecure males attempting to show off for both girls and their fellow brethren.  I'm really hoping this is just some cousins visiting or something for the weekend because I know of only one teen boy here and he's a loner.  Is pool season over yet?   It always starts strong like this and then typically dies down within a month but what an irritating month it is until then.  We did some more work out on the patio Monday.  It was going to be the last sunny day before two days of forecasted rain...again.  I made sure to get the new picket painted and hung to cover this delightful sight: When the picket was off, I could see how bad the support 2x4's looked on the fence.  ...
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Hump Day Poll: I Thought Everyone Did That!



Holidays are built on traditions and many traditions are ones that we think everyone has.  My Italian friend has a huge feast of foods that I thought people just had any day of the week.   That woke me up to the fact that not all foods I thought were a given for certain holidays actually are.  I got curious and asked my chiropractor if they had any dish that it wouldn't be the same if they didn't have it for the holidays and he said corn casserole.  My Mom made that on occasion for random events but not necessarily holidays.

With Thanksgiving being tomorrow (and Christmas rocketing toward us), what foods did you think everyone ate when you were a kid (or adult) but found out later it was either regional or just your family?

Mine was Grandma's noodles.  I thought that's what everyone had but the Mr had never heard of such a thing and I think my family might've been militant about him trying them by the way he tells the story.  I thought it was just me that said he should try them but apparently many did.

How about you?  What food was/is a staple for your holiday but not necessarily with others?



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  1. The Mr.November 27, 2024 at 6:42 AM

    Yes several people made sure to tell me that I needed to try the noodles. Thankfully they're good or I would have offended some people LOL. For me the must have dish was my Grandma's pecan swirl rolls... But many years after she passed O learned that they were just store bought that she modified so there isn't really a recipe and I've never really had them like that since, but it sure meant a lot to me as a kid. It just wasn't the holidays without those.

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  2. WoodsyNovember 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM

    Hmmm... aside from specific cookies mom made as a kid for Christmas, nothing specific comes to mind. Beef crown roast or some kind of beef roast for Christmas, but we'd have roast at other times too. I guess my dad's stuffing he made from scratch would be for Thanksgiving, and probably Christmas, but I'm not totally sure on that.

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  3. Paula CDecember 1, 2024 at 1:55 PM

    Perogi that my grandmother made from scratch. Potato & cheese, sauerkraut. She'd fry them with butter & onions. We only had them at Christmas. They were a lot of work. None of my friends ever even heard of them. But now I see them in the frozen food section at the grocery stores.

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    1. Anele @ Success Along the WeighDecember 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM

      Have you ever picked some up to see if they taste anywhere near Gram's?

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