Menu

[mrissa]

bafleyanne posted her planned Thanksgiving menu, and it's somewhat different from mine. Um. A bit.

We're having:
squash soup with fried sage leaves and a drizzle of sage butter
lasagna, one pan of Italian sausage and one of hamburger for the older set
rosemary buns with optional sun-dried tomato spread
baked yams or sweet potatoes, depending on which looks good
broccoli diablo (with red bell pepper bits and tarragon and mustard and so on)
raw veggie tray and dill dip
lefse
lingonberries
pickled herring
wild rice pudding with sour cherries
pecan pies and pumpkin pie, made by Grandma

Lunch will be turkey sandwiches (with some cheese sandwiches for Grandpa), but I don't like turkey enough to make one and have it coming out every orifice for months, and as I am in charge Thanksgiving, that means lasagna. Festive lasagna! Yummy lasagna! Everybody likes lasagna, particularly me.

What are you having?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon, are you Norsky-deprived?

Did you know that's where my last name comes from? People at Ellis Island can't spell, or it'd be Lingon. My paternal ancestor and his two brothers decided they didn't want to be just another Peterson if they were going to be stuck with the same name every generation (how weird!), so they were going to call themselves after the berries they grew on their farm back home. One of them succeeded and became Mr. Lingon. My ancestor became Mr. Lingen. And the third brother ran into an immigration official who said, "How patriotic, this thick-voiced Swede wants to name himself after one of our greatest presidents!" So there are some Swedish Lincolns running around related to me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My Lincoln cousins apparently settled in Illinois.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Something similar happened to my family. I'm told that my original last name sounded something like "Yahms". But became "James", and sounded good and American (thus no one complained).