Tomorrow my office is having a Thanksgiving Luncheon, and everyone is supposed to bring a dish. I’m bringing what I like to call my “yankee stuffing,” but is really cranberry apple sausage stuffing, made with BREAD CUBES, not this horrible mushy cornbread crap that southerners call “dressing.”
I made one substitution: instead of regular italian sausage, I used chicken italian sausge. My office mate was raised mixed muslim/christian and doesn’t eat pork, and I wanted to make sure she could partake. I know all too well how frustrating it is when food restrictions limit the kind of yummy food one can eat at potlucks!
It smells like Thanksgiving in my home now. Be jealous.
I’m totally with you on the bread cubes. We are making oyster stuffing for Thanksgiving and I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!! YUM!
You consider corn bread dressing to be mushy??? Compared to bread cubes, which totally lose their structure when liquid hits them?
It must be a regional thing.
Ah the never ending stuffing battle. Cornbread! Bread! Freedom! I like bread but I think that’s because I was raised on cornbread and got burnt out.
We made a pear sausage stuffing that was wicked! Good on ya for looking out for your Islamic friend! Better read up on halal for future potlucks!
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My mom and brother have been cooking up Scandihoovian style Thanksgiving goodies all week and are bringing them home tomorrow–meaning we’ll have lefse and some of the richest cookies I’ve ever seen. These even have Paula Deen beat–we start with a pound of butter, add an assload of sugar and work from there, then press them into tins, bake and snarf. I think I posted a picture once awhile back.
So we’ll be having those, potato flatbread (aka lefse), my brother’s best pies and starting to thaw the turkey–it’s in the fridge now but it’ll go into a bucket in the evening and finish thawing overnight.
But the stuffing is sage stuffing made with bread. Always and forever–nothing else tastes right on a turkey sandwich made with lefse.