Every year for Thanksgiving I make stuffing. It started back in the 80's from the Betty Crocker cookbook. Each year I do things a bit different because I don't write down the recipe. The basic ingredients are butter, chopped yellow onions (sometimes white) & equal amount of chopped celery. Cook the celery and onion in a frying pan with lots of butter til the onions are translucent. Then pour that stuff into a container while I get a couple tubes of Jimmy Dean pork sausage (sometimes with herbs) browned up in the pan that cooked the onions and celery, adding a bit of butter of course. Then when the sausage is done I throw the onions and celery back in with the sausage to instill those flavors into the sausage and vice versa.. I finish the stuffing off with a couple bags of store bought bread crumbs, sometimes plain, sometimes with herbs, sometimes a mixture with chicken broth and water (half and half) and then mix in the sauage, onion, celery concocotion. Some years I have added in apples, other years I have put in mushrooms, other years carrots with the onion and celery base. Mostly I stick to the basics.
Half of the stuffing goes into the bird for roasting, the other half goes into a baking pan and cooked alongside the turkey for the last 1/2 hour or so.
Personally I like to mix the two stuffings together, but the bird stuffing always is preferred by folks over the pan baked stuffing
What do you all do?
Hungry yet?