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

[speckledhen]

I think one reason to make it in a pan is that a turkey just wont hold enough to eat AND put away in the freezer in blocks to eat whenever the mood strikes.

 

[kinnip]

Mmmmm dressing! It's gotta have cornbread and white bread so old that it's developed that almost moldy smell (if you have to pick off a little penicillin more's the better). I used to add sage alone, but the BF likes it with poultry seasoning. Ya gotta please your audience.
When I roast a game hen, I do stuffing with hunks of bread, nuts and fruit.

 

[cockadoodlemom]

Dressing~cornbread, celery, onion, sage , an egg or two,and the drippings from the turkey(if it doesnt' put off enough we add chicken broth).

 

[windtryst]

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Me too!!! We hoot over burning the marshmallows! I try soooo hard every year to not burn them...but...depends how long cocktail hour is...

 

[lovemychix]

Oyster dressing using plain bread. I mince the oysters up and hubby doesn't even know he's eating them.

 

[Chicabee19]

Me too!!! We hoot over burning the marshmallows! I try soooo hard every year to not burn them...but...depends how long cocktail hour is

LOL...

I don't have that excuse!

Last year they burned so badly that I had to scrape them off the sweet potatoes and start over. The pie plate onto which I had scraped them sat out on our deck for about 4 months in the rain, and those burned mallows never washed away!​

 

[justusnak]

I use my grandma's recipe. Throughout the year, we save the bread heals. Celery and onion sauted in butter...with pepper and sage.....throw that on top of the broken bread heals..add a few eggs, and a little milk....mix it with my hands, and STUFF THAT BIRD! Ohhh, I cant waite to smell that great aroma. Oh, and there is always plenty more to put in a pan...and bake later.

 

[eggzettera]

Stuffing, nobody eats the heels/crust (well my dad used to - it was his favorite

) in our house so those just get thrown in the oven to dry out then get put into a bag so I never buy the bread cubes. Just the plain jane traditional herb stuffing here, but yummy for what it is....

 

[Chicabee19]

I'm curious about the egg.... we never thought to use one in our stuffing! I guess it's kinda like using egg and bread in meatloaf?

 

[ruth]

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Somehow I pictured myself as Martha Stewart (but I don't think she was around then) and had a cumquat tree in backyard and just knew they would be so good and sweet in my stuffing. I cut them up peel and all.

I swear that stuffing was primarily liver and cumquats - again, the most awful thing I think I have ever cooked.

Well, there was that gallon of gravy I made another time. Again, trying to duplicate what I remember my mother making - homemade gravy after frying something in cast iron skillet. I remember her adding oil and flour, browning it and then adding water. Well I added a couple of cups of flour.....

.....you know where this cooking story is going......I browned it and kept adding water and more water. Had to switch to a big soup pot and still kept adding water. Ended up with about a gallon of gravy too awful to eat.

I don't know why I didn't just get out a cookbook and look up recipes back then - I just envisioned myself a visionist I guess.