Turkey stuffing
 

What kind of stuffing does everyone use on Thanksgiving? Does anyone have any really good recipes? I usually make chestnut stuffing but I didnt find chestnuts this year, and it's time for a change anyway.

My family likes Oyster dressing

Good ole fashioned cornbread stuffing/dressing with onions celery and lots of sage. yummmmm

I do bread stuffing with the various breads saved over the past few months with celery, onions, turkey broth and various seasoning. It is the same my mother made and my husband's mom made the same type too. (Maybe that's why we have been married 40 years.)

That's ^^^ our family recipe. The only change from my grandma making it and my making it is we use sourdough instead of regular bread. My MIL used to make a totally white bread dressing and it was SLIMY!!!!

And now, after almost 26 years of marriage, he admits that he LOVES our cornbread dressing and really hated his mom's but never had an alternative. :D

And this year we have onions and sage from our garden. LOVE IT!!!!

Thats too funny the biggest change I have made is using a varriety of stale breads I keep in the freezer through the year to mix in with the corn bread. That's so cool that you are using your garden produce this year.

Tartan: what is Becel?

I decided on cornbread dressing and made a pan of cornbread this afternoon. I plan to use the stale white bread for a summer pudding in case someone doesn't like pumpkin pie. Thank you, everyone, for the ideas!

I make my mom's old wonderful recipe. My husband's family us to make it with Oysters. I don't do that but it was good too.

Becel is a brand of heart healthy margarine for those of us with high cholesterol. That makes the whole holiday feast healthy, right?:D

Tartan, that is absolutely right! Take a cholesterol pill and eat up.

I'm with Bili and jrboxers, I always make cornbread dressing. My son does not like onions, nor the crunch of the celery. I use onion power and cream of celery soup, he is none the wiser. (Not as good as chopping the fresh, but he likes it-and now his family also.) I have some in the oven now and 2 small containers I placed in the freezer for later.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

sour dough stuffing absolutely. chopped sautéed onions and celery, cube of melted butter and broth. bunch of chopped parsley, I do put it in the turkey half and half in a separate baking pan for those who like it with a crunch on top. Love love love the stuffing the very most .. then of course the fresh cranberry relish that is awfully good too of course there is the sweet potato bake.. too much food. there is simply too much good food at one sitting. hard to pick!

My DH makes the dressing at this house. He uses Petridge Farm Dressing mix, lots of onion and celery. His secret ingredient is bacon grease in the water that he mixes with the dressing (I know but its only a couple of times a year) and lots of back pepper. He also pulls the skin away from the breast of the turkey with the handle of a wooden spoon and stuffs the dressing between the breast and the skin. The bacon grease bastes the turkey breast. It is absolutely the moistest turkey I have ever eaten. He does it the way his German Grandpa did it. He is the only one in his family who still carries on the tradition besides his aunt who will be 100 years old on Christmas Day. This will be our 45th Thanksgiving and as long as he wants to do it, I'm game. I fix the rest of the meal.

Thank you to everyone, this has been a lovely thread. Happy Thanksgiving !

I also use sausage in my stuffing, remove the casings and sauté it with the celery and onions. We like hot sausage, but I will use morning sausage if I am serving it to people who don't like spicy/hot. Roasted chestnuts are also good and I add them when I remember to!

I make my Uncle Bud Dalton's dressing, it has everything : bread stuffing mix, onions , celery, mushrooms, sliced black olives, cooked crumbled sausage, chopped cooked giblets, butter, eggs, salt, pepper , lots of sage . My sister adds more stuff, I think she uses whatever is leftover in her fridge. I love stuffing.

Fondest memories were of "nipping" the whole/solid loaf of bread the night before for the stuffing. What an honor! Hahaha

Similar recipe... seasoning is only thyme, some salt, a little black pepper.
Saving the heels and any leftover buns, etc. is easy in the freezer (if you have some room) and instead of turkey broth, I just use water... Heck, by the time it's cooked INSIDE the turkey, it gets enough flavor. Any extra OUTSIDE can be doctored up with gravy! Yummmmm.......

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish quilters.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Something I "invented" many years ago that works for us. We all like moist celery, onion and sage dressing with white bread. But there was never enough for us all just by stuffing the turkey. I, also discovered that if I made it separately in another pan I lost a lot because the dressing got too born on the bottom and sides.

Continuing on!!!!!.....


Anyway, I meant too brown! Discovered that if I lined my pan, sides and bottom with slices of fresh bread before piling in my dressing to bake that I ended up with a full pan of dressing with no brown edges and the fresh bread I started with hand turned to toast which I just discarded.

Love oyster dressing. Need good oysters, fresh is best otherwise I go with frozen but it's most expensive ingredient. Originally from Indiana but that was my mother's favorite. We like it to.

Guess I am the odd-ball. My family, from way back, has always made giblet dressing, with the stale bread, onions, celery, the giblets, sage, s&p and that is about it. Yummmm!

It was fun to read about the stuffing made by the different members of this board. We here in Texas mostly make cornbread dressing, which I love. However, it is nice to learn what kind other make.

I add the meat from the neck and giblets to mine, fry little grillers, cut them in small pieces, and add those also.