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Family Reunion June 2025

When: October 25, 2025 Where: PixieDust, New Mexico

First Family Reunion!!!

Hello everyone! The time has finally come to schedule our first whole family reunion in 20 years!!! I know a lot of people have been asking about putting together something like this for a while, so here is our official announcement and itinerary so that y'all can go about making travel arrangements.

The Wackadoodle family reunion will be on Saturday, October 25 in PixieDust, New Mexico.

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Duchess Vegan Scrapple

Aunt Duchess' Vegan Scrapple

I wanted to share a recipe that's quickly becoming one of my favorites! As some of you may know I'm vegan and so I really have to work to get food I can eat y'know? Anyway, this fascinating and really tasty dish uses walnuts, cornmeal, soy sauce, and an array of spices to emulate the Pennsylvania delicacy! Let me know if any of you people get around to making it!!

Also noticed that at some point theere is a Scrapple Festival. If you go, find the Vegan Scrapple.

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Boilers' Pumpkin Stew-Cake

Boilers' Pumpkin Stew-Cake

I just found a card in one of Grandpa Boilers' old suitcases that has the recipe for this odd dessert! It dates back to the Great Depression, and uses pumpkin stew as a base for a spongy cake, similar to the better-known tomato soup cake of the time. It's much sweeter than it has any right to be, and even though it smells a bit... interesting going into the oven, it comes out smelling like a fairly normal spice cake!

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Top Italians' Garlic Gnocchi

The Top Italians' Garlic Gnocchi

One of the true prized heirlooms of our storied family is the Top Italians' gnocchi recipe. It's crazy how here in the US gnocchi is treated as a specialty dish, but we all grew up with it and never really thought of it in any way other than as kind of a given.

The Top Italians may have been largely forgotten by the historical record, but at least their impossibly flavorful and easy-to-make gnocchi lives on.

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Who would Use This

Two Types of Users

  • A site manager (Bob's Your Uncle) to setup, run, edit, maintain a server for the site.
  • Family Members to contribute information to the site manager for inclusion.
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Kids Taste Test

Kids Taste Test

Does anyone remember the last family reunion we had? It was a long time before this site was put together! We had such fun back then it's a wonder it's taken this long to get together again.

I remember back then Maggie's kids were all pretty young and constantly getting into mischief, including eating batter of the batch of stew cakes we were making!! Then they even graded us on our cooking based on that...

In our house we still have the youngest children or grandchildren sample foods first, because it's fun for them and they are nothing if not blunt in how they state their opinions.

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Salt and Superstitions

Salt and Superstitions

A number of years ago when Gmom was still around there was a huge thunderstorm, and much of the neighborhood lost power. We all huddled together at the dinner table, but one of my younger siblings was scared of the long shadows that were cast by the candles we had. My grandmother calmed them down by making a ring of salt around them, and she said that no monsters or anything that could harm them could pass the line of salt.

From then on, whenever children were afraid of the dark or thought there were monsters under the bed, their parents would make a ring of salt, and they would sleep soundly after that.