Festy goodness, and random acts of kindness

[delphipsmith]

Prompting is open at mini_fest! Signups are still open at sshg_giftfest!! hp_goldenage is going to have an anonymous promptfest this fall!!!

So much fun, so little time...

Borrowed from toblass and savine_snape:

After all the recent terrible tragedies that have and are happening it's time for some positivity and kindness to happen.

So, I'm going to grab the pay-it-forward idea and put a little twist on it. The first twelve people to comment will get a surprise from me at some random point during the next twelve months.

All I ask is that in your comment, you share something with me about yourself that I may not know otherwise. This might be a good opportunity for me to get to know my friends better as well.

Ooh, I can't wait to see what I learn ::rubs hands in anticipation::

Comments

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

I bought the car the first Saturday in June (4th or 5th) and got my driver's license the 2nd week in August (I think it was the 11th) ... so about 2 months. My girlfriend took me out for a couple of weekends to practice in my car before I started driving lessons at CAA (Canadian branch of AAA) on an automatic. I used the 9th and 10th lesson for the test and to get the car back to their office since I didn't want to take the test on my car.

I figured I had enough to worry about during the test without shifting at the wrong times. :)

Thanks for sharing facts about YOU. The oyster part would have put me off. Have you ever tried sweetbreads. I was squicked when I learned what THAT was.

My mom used to make Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners like that. There were only six of us but my mom made enough for 12-16. She always forget to put a couple of dishes on the table but since there wasn't any room on the table to hold them, we had to switch things out at half time.

[delphipsmith]

Have never tried sweetbreads because yeah, I know what they are :P We usually have about 10 people for TG. It's funny because I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat the turkey, but I love the tradition of cooking it. Just about every item is a family recipe: the pumpkin pie is my great-grandmother's, the creamed onions are my dad's favorite, the apple pie is my mom's. And I have to make 2 pans of stuffing because Mr Psmith and his brothers insist on their grandmother's stuffing with giblets and broth while I do my grandmother's celery/sage/onion/pecan version for me.

But the best part is that since we host the meal, we get ALL THE LEFTOVERS. Mmmmmmmmm...

Oh, PM me your snail mail address!

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

We were 2 different dishes of stuffing family too. My nephew started demanding the boxed stuff (Stovetop Stuffing) when he was about 5 or 6 while the rest of us loved my mom's giblet rice stuffing. These days I combine the two recipes into my favourite part of the Thanksgiving meal. I even cheat by using Zatarain's dirty rice boxed mix along with the Stovetop.

http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/95739.html

I liked having the leftovers to eat all week too especially as I only ever had a sliver of turkey at the main meal while I gorged on the pounded and then breaded veal cutlets. My brother used to make a sandwich with the dinner rolls/buns and the cutlets. And I ate the garlicky, paprika sausage that she baked in a small casserole dish.

In later years my brother and SIL were not shy about asking for leftovers to take home and by the time they left, there wasn't much left over for US.