Peace

There is a difference between kasha, which is buckwheat groats usually boiled up and served as an accompanyment to something like stew ( had some this week with Guiness beef stew ) and kashanka, which is blood sausage containing buckwheat (kasha).

sIx

I may have but under a different name, from googling recipes it sounds very much like the type of turkey stuffing that was staple in my family's cuisine which was sliced and eaten with gravy.

The maternal side of my family hailed from a part of the world that was home to a mix of Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish peoples and our cuisine was a reflection of this mixture with the concomitant variety of nomenclature resulting in several names for each dish so even if it wasn't known by one name it could very well be the equivalent or a close approximation.