Flagg the Wanderer
Mourning Algernon
My memere made meat pies, but hated it as stuffing and used a traditional bread-based stuffing. I agree that it's pretty nasty combined with turkey.1. "Mémère " is the french term used most around here to refer to Grandma. "Pépère" is the Grandpa term. So cool to see it used
2. That recipe for the meat stuffing looks so much like our recipe for meat pies up here. We use beef, pork, and whatever wild game we have in the freezer - last couple of years was moose meat.
I'm sure Muse can chime in on this as well as she's very familiar with the acadian cuisine and terms up this way
Now, in a fusion for the ages, my mother (full-blooded Italian) swiped Memere's recipe for the stuffing of her meat pies and used it in tortellini. It was transformative. So ridiculously good...
But yeah, like many in New England my grandparents floated down the rivers with the logs. In our case, ending up in New Hampshire.