I’m that mom who watches Nickelodeon and happens to go online to Nickmoms.com to read all of the #motherfunny stories. With 4 kids, I need to laugh and some of the Thanksgiving stories had me laughing so much, that I had to create one of my own and share my mishap.
My Thanksgiving dinners are full of memories. Bad cooks, arguments, laughter and telling prior years mishaps, happens to be the best of them all. Like the year I made my kids eat Viet-na-Stuffing.
This is my mom, she is full Vietnamese. Isn’t she so sweet? I love her to death and she is an amazing cook, well… when it comes to Vietnamese food. As for American food, we’ll she’s, I shouldn’t say a bad cook, because sometimes her creations are wonderful – Chinese BBQ sauce on steak, actually tastes good and is one of my favorite dishes she makes.
My dad on the other hand is full Italian. One thing about Italians is they love their gravy, which for you non Italians, actually means marinara sauce. My great-great grandmother’s recipe is amazing! I’m so glad my grandmother passed down her grandmothers gravy recipe to my mother, who well… should stick to recipe. Every now and then my mother decides to experiment, one time she added pigs feet and asparagus to the gravy. I couldn’t get passed these little piggies finding their way into my gravy to even try the altered recipe.
However the year my mom experimented with our Thanksgiving day stuffing happens to be the best of them all.
Traditional stuffing in our house is onions, celery, chicken broth and stuffing. My mother actually makes really good stuffing. But this year I don’t know what got into her, I guess she just wanted to add a little bit of her heritage into the stuffing.
She started off making our traditional stuffing and then added clear noodles and chestnuts, which I’ve named viet-na-stuffing.
We sat down, said grace and served the kids first. I added all the wonderful fixin’s like turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy, all over their plates. I never even noticed anything was different with the stuffing.
Busy helping getting everyone served, one of the kids said, “Mom something is wrong with the stuffing.” I immediately took it as they were being picky. “Just eat it!” I said, “But Mom! It looks nasty!” I replied with “No it doesn’t, stop fussing and eat it!”
Then as I sat down, my husband turns to me and says,”Hey hun, what did your mom do to the stuffing?” I grabbed a fork full of stuffing and all the sudden noticed these clear rice noodles hanging out of the stuffing and looked a little further and saw this black roundish item. I looked at my mom and said what is that? Before she could reply with it being a chestnut, one of the kids yells out, it looks like a cockroach. The other kids yells out, we’ve got worms too!
I couldn’t stop laughing, as I tried to say with a straight face to hush. We don’t talk that way, when grandma worked so hard to put this wonderful meal together. I said it can’t be that bad, and shoved my forkful of stuffing in my mouth and took one bite and nearly gagged! The stuffing was so dry! It was as if the noodles has sucked every last bit of juiciness out of the stuffing. I think had they been real worms and cockroaches it would have been more flavorful.
That Thanksgiving goes down as the Thanksgiving I made the kids eat “worms” and “cockroaches” and each year since we’ve slowly peeked inside the stuffing to make sure nothing’s coming out of it.
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