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[WVduckchick]

I'd be happy to find the banana creme for you Bunny! looks yummy

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Agreed! Yum

 

[Alaskan]

I got the dressing all done in the pan... Then realized I hadn't added any eggs.




After looking at it sitting in a pan for an hour.. I think I have worked up the courage to dump it out, add eggs, and put it back in.

 

[Wisher1000]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I made two large pans of dressing, black-eyed-peas, mac and cheese, english peas, fried okra, store-bought rolls, chocolate lava cake, and chocolate pecan pie. Oh, and DH roasted a turkey on the back porch.

Alaskan, don't feel bad, three years in a row I forgot to grease the pans before I put the dressing in.... but not this year!

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, I have to mess up something every time.

 

[willzpapa]

Yeah, I have to mess up something every time.

The only surefire way not to not mess up is to do nothing

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'm not sure what dressing is.

I had a veggie burger and some egg nog for lunch and a bowl of oatmeal for dinner. Y'all are makin' me hungry.

 

[Latestarter]

Seriously SCG? You don't do the huge meal for Thanksgiving? I had enough for both of us I'm sure

Still bulging at the seams... Turkey, stuffing, gravy, rolls, butternut squash, smashed taters (skin on), candied yams, green bean casserole, honey glazed carrots. Then Flan w/caramel sauce for desert. Now having a big mug of hot chocolate. About to go vegetate in my recliner and try to keep my eyes open for the Bears/Packers game. Both earlier games were routes.

Edit to ask why you folks make/cook your dressing/stuffing in a pan? I mean there's that great big open cavity in the turkey that just cries out to be stuffed. Course if there's no turkey, you couldn't stuff it, now could you?

 

[willzpapa]

I'm not sure what dressing is.

I had a veggie burger and some egg nog for lunch and a bowl of oatmeal for dinner. Y'all are makin' me hungry.

Usually cornbread crumbled up with celery,and giblets from the turkey but I'm guessing your a vegan or vegetarian so you could use more vegetable

 

[Wisher1000]

SCG - Dressing is heaven in a roasting pan. Willzpapa is correct, a cornbread base, but so much more. It is similar to "stuffing" but is cooked in a pan (or two) and baked in the oven. Mine has bread and eggs to bind it together, onions, celery, shredded chicken, butter, chicken stock or broth, black pepper, sage, and sometimes, boiled eggs. It is considered a side dish, but here in the south, it is the co-star of the meal, right next to the turkey. Families have their own versions, and usually their own designated dressing expert. It is the one dish that better be done the same or it's just not acceptable. My mom's was the best and mine is about as good. My DH wants me to make it more like his grandmother's which is basically the same, but a different consistency. I compromised and made it a bit more crumbly this year, but I didn't like it as well as my usual, firmer version. He was pleased, though.

The turkey giblets are cooked and cut up in the white gravy, which is poured over the turkey and the dressing by most people.