Just interested to know, who does stuffing and who makes dressing!

[Pumpkinpup]

Cornbread dressing with gibblet gravy is the only way to go!

 

[speckledhen]

DRESSING is for Southerners! WOOT for southern food! Made with Cornbread and Biscuits and lots of sage!

EDITED TO ADD: in a PAN, not the bird.

 

[MandyH]

Quote:
Gotta love souther cooks!!
Cynthia, i got both my grandmothers to write down all my favorite recipes of theirs while they are still alive and lucid, and one of them wrote to use a WHOLE RED BOX OF SAGE!!! I said, "Mamaw, are you sure this is right, a whole freakin box?" She said yes, but I still just dash a litttle. You know that stuff gets stouter while your cooking it. LOL!!! I say she's still lucid, heck she may not be after reading THAT recipe, LOL!!!

 

[Chicabee19]

We stuff the bird, but there's always about the same amount left over, so we cook it in a separate pan. Sometimes we make 2 kinds, like half cornbread, half hand-made bakery bread.

our ever-changing list of possible ingredients (always looking for something new to add):

butter and olive oil
broth from cooking those "bits" from inside the turkey
chopped turkey liver
walnuts
apple
raisins
celery
several types of onion
various types of mushroom
smoked or fried oysters
dried cherries
tons of garlic
parsley, fresh sage, rosemary and thyme from my garden

When I was in China, my DH and our friend cooked for Thanksgiving. She insisted on using a ton of wild sage from a nearby field. I got home just before Christmas and I could still smell it. DH said it was AWFUL.

 

[chicken_ladyGA]

Good ol' southern moist corndread dressing. GOt to have the gravy and cranberries to go with it yummmmm

 

[toletiquesbysam]

Stovetop Stuffing for me! I'm the only one who eats it so no point in going to the extreme

 

[Henrietta23]

I grew up eating Pepperidge Farm stuffing. But Mom never actually stuffed the bird with it, she always cooked it on the side! We still call it stuffing though. I make my own, sometimes with bread, sometimes cornbread, one time a mixture of both. Probably because of being raised eating the stuff from the bag I don't like a lot of things in there, like dried fruit or (GAG) celery!

 

[agnes_day]

cornbread stuffing/dressing with giblet gravy!!!

 

[Sooner Chic-en]

umm..... dressing, I can't wait!!! My Grams has the best receipe ever!!

 

[ruth]

O.K. this reminds me of my first Thanksgiving as a young married woman - all of 20 - who had never cooked before but I remembered my mom's stuffing and giblet gravy. But somehow I remembered it all wrong.

I made a stuffing, out of what I can't remember, but I do remember and will forever, as will the now ex-hubby, the cumquat and liver I added. I think I got the giblets confused with the liver and in any event, I diced up the liver and cut up some cumquats and added that and stuffed the turkey. My new DH and I had Thanksgiving dinner alone (long story but his family didn't approve of me and had walked out of our wedding two weeks earlier) and I was so excited to take that turkey out of the oven. I would show them, didn't need anyone to cook Thanksgiving dinner for us.

We each took one bite of the stuffing, about the same time, and before he could even say anything, I grabbed it up and threw it in the trash. It was the worst tasting thing I had ever put in my mouth.

Years later we would laugh about what came to be called my "Famous liver and cumquat dressing"

Oh, fond memories. Well now it's been almost 30 years and I've hosted just about every Thanskgiving and do all the cooking, no one brings a thing, but I've yet to try my "Famous" stuffing again.