Stuffing is the TG component that I enjoy making the most, and mine usually gets good reviews. Here are the ingredients i'm planning to put in my stuffing this year:

cubes of high-quality ciabatta and country batard bread, dried
chicken stock, or maybe homemade turkey stock if i have the time
dry vermouth
dried cranberries
dried currants, probably soaked in port
apple and pear, sauteed in butter or roasted
onion and shallot, chopped small and caramelized
fresh sage leaves, possibly fried in butter
smaller amounts of fresh rosemary and thyme
dried sage
eggs
pecans, toasted in oven with butter,maple syrup, cayenne, and salt
nutmeg
bacon
cream

My family calls the stuff "nuts and bolts," but I've never met anyone else familiar with that term. We use rice chex or corn chex, wheat chex, cheerios, peanuts, and skinny pretzel sticks broken up into smaller pieces. The wet stuff is vegetable oil, garlic salt or powder, some kind of seasoned salt if you like, and worcestershire sauce. You mix the wet stuff together, pour it over, and bake at a very low temp (250?) for about 2 hours, stirring every 15 minutes. I like to spice it up with some additional cayenne--every year I play around a bit with the recipe.

Several reasons. My date had never been to the area, so i thought that meeting in L-ville and walking over the bridge to NH on a nice day would be fun--and it was. I had the sense that the food and ambience at MB would be right for a first date, and they were. I considered Lily's, but the last meal I had there was disappointing--greasy eggplant fries and boring and overcooked salmon sandwich. Like the food at Marhaba but the chairs are torture to sit in. Didin't think that L-ville Station was very well-regarded. Considered Inn of the Hawke but saw some dubious online reviews and it gave me pause. Considered Stockton, but wanted to stroll around Lambertville and show it to my date. El Tule would have been a good choice, but since my last 2 first dates there were social disasters, I thought it might be bad luck. :) But I do hear you on the fact that New Hope is a sad hole compared to Lambertville. We returned to Lville after lunch and enjoyed a long perambulation.

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Inn of the Hawke
74 S Union St, Lambertville, NJ 08530

I did actually phone Marsha brown a bit later in the morning, and they answered and said they could accommodate us. I asked why they thought Open Table had told me no way, and they were nebulous in their response. So we ate there, and it was excellent. I had the Eggplant Ophelia (I think it was called that), with eggplant, shrimp and crabmeat. My date had the crawfish etoufee, and it was good too. For dessert we split a piece of pecan pie, and that was quite good. With 2 iced teas, and 2 coffees, we paid $60 with tax and tip.

I am eager to return to El Tule as well. The best thing I've had there was a sort of peruvian sampler--hard to recall all that was on it, but I loved it. The folks who run the place are very warm, and they bring each customer a little sample of pisco sour at the end of your meal. (it's BYO) They have separate mexican and Peruvian menus---check out their website.

My all-time favorite sandwich is one I had in an NYC restaurant a few decades ago. The place had a number for its name--like 1437 or something--probably its address. It was on pita bread and consisted of curried turkey salad with almonds, crispy bacon, and avocado slices. I have recreated this many times, but it's so rich that it can be a bit overwhelming sometimes. I think I usually use chicken salad instead of turkey, as it's not obvious how to produce perfectly tender and cartiledge-free chunks of white meat turkey in the smallish quantity that's called for. Some arugula or other greens would help to attenuate the richness of the concoction.

Some other perennial favorites:

grilled cheese with summer tomato slices--can put a little mayo next to the tomato
BLT at the height of tomato season, on brioche

Oh, and at Bayona in New Orleans, the duck, cashew butter, and pepper jelly sandwich was memorable. Recipe is online and can be found by googling.