Long after parents and grandparents have gone to their heavenly reward, they still live on in the holiday dishes we prepare in their honor. Sometimes this is a good thing; other times, not so much. I know of a family who eats their turkey dry as straw every year and have to gag it down with lots of beer. It's not that the family likes turkey this way, nor are they so dumb they can't they figure out another way to cook it. It's just that dry-as-dust turkey is the way grandma used to make it and so every time they eat it, it brings back happy memories. In my family one of the weirdest traditions was tomato aspic, a cold gelled salad filled with vegetables and shrimp and served in some kind of fancy mold, usually a fish. I'm not sure where tomato aspic got its start in our family. Most likely it was one of those dishes mom or grandma found in a women's magazine/Kathy Hedberg, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you have a family recipe at Thanksgiving that has been handed down from previous generations?