Wonderful Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe
frugally4u
a post for the holidays ;)
Maybe everyone could post what they are up to for their holiday feast?
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This is an article that I wrote yesterday, and it can be found at:
A Storybook Life
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Savory Sausage Stuffing With Secret Ingredients!
At your first glance over this stuffing recipe, you might find
yourself with at least one raised eyebrow. I know I did the first time
I heard what was in this dish during one of our family gatherings ;)
But, to my surprise, I absolutely loved it! As a matter of fact,
everyone loved it!
To be honest, I just wasn't used to having fruit as an ingredient in a
main course, so I had no idea how tasty it was! Of course, my taste
buds have certainly grown & expanded in the last few years, and I now
enjoy all sorts of fruit, meat, and salad combinations!
This recipe is not exactly like the first one that I tasted, as I've
added a few more "goodies" here & there ;)
Feel free to add, take away, or change amounts of any of the
ingredients as well. My mother tells me that I am a lot like my great-
grandmother Pearl (not just because I am her namesake ;), who never
really used recipes or measuring utensils, but rather added different
ingredients until it looked & felt right! So, with that being said, I
hope you enjoy this special recipe!
Savory Sausage Stuffing Surprise (say that 4 times fast ;)
12 Cups bread cubes
8-16 ounces ground pork sausage (according to your taste)
1 1/2 Cups chopped onion
1 1/2 Cups diced celery (save inner leaves, dice & add as well)
1 1/2 Cups chopped granny smith apples
1/2 Cup coarsely chopped walnuts
1 Cup dried cranberries
4 teaspoons poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 cup chicken broth (more if needed)
1 cup butter -- melted
You could buy pre-made bread cubes, or make your own with a loaf of
your favorite type of bread. To make your own, simply break the bread
into small bits (1-2 inches), spread on large cookie sheet, place in
250° oven for about 10 minutes - just to dry them out. Then remove
bread & set it aside.
Brown the sausage in a large skillet, being sure to break it up into
smaller pieces while cooking. Using a slotted spoon, drain the
drippings from the sausage before you place it into a large bowl.
Remove all but a small amount of the drippings from the skillet, then
add the butter, onions, celery & celery leaves, apples, and all
seasonings. Cook until tender. Add chicken broth and simmer for approx
5-10 minutes.
In the large bowl, add the walnuts & cranberries to the cooked sausage
and mix well. Then, stir in the bread cubes and mix until well
blended. Lastly, pour contents from the skillet into the bowl & mix
until all the ingredients are coated & moist. You can add more chicken
broth if the mix is to dry.
Use this mixture to stuff your turkey, or place it in a buttered
baking dish and bake until thoroughly heated and golden brown.
I know that you will enjoy this wonderful new twist to your
traditional holiday dinner!
Pearl
bernadette
It is a beautiful Pennsylvania Fall Day - temps in the high 50's right now
so working in the kitchen is a delight. We will be having our children and
families over tomorrow for a big Thanksgiving Day Dinner plus Aunties.
There should be around 20+ at the tables.
We are having the traditional meal since the children wouldn't be happy if I
tried to do anything different. Beef Rolls, Deviled Eggs, Hot Rolls,
Turkey, filling/stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn,
peas, green beans, shalata (a wilted salad of lettuces), different types of
olives and pickles, harvard beets, apple sauce, pies, cakes, cupcakes, etc.
We grow all our vegetables and fruits, so that helps defray the cost of the
meal.
I am enclosing my recipe for pumpkin pie - we grow the Hopi Pale Gray
Squash - and this is what I do.
Pumpkin/Squash Pie
Cut Pumpkin/Squash in half - scoop out the seeds and strings and place the
two halves into boiling water in the over at 450 degrees F. for about 1
hour. Dry the seeds for next years plantings.
Cool a little bit and then scoop out the inside of the squash and put into
the food processor until it is smooth.
Combine 1 3/4 cups of the pumpkin/squash, 2 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2
teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground
cloves and mix thoroughly. Then stir in 1 2/3 cans evaporated milk, mix and
let stand for 15 minutes. Pour into flaky unbaked 9 inch pie shell. Bake
at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes or until the center is firm.
Absolutely the most delicious pie.
May everyone have a wonderful holiday with family and friends close to you.
Bernadette
Kathy
This year we are celebrating all we are thankful for which really isn't
unusual except for the fact this time last year I was just out of the
hospital with the remains of a sever infection that came close to taking my
life. Therefore we will be thanking God for life, our family and all that
He has provided for us and helped in my healing process. I hope that all
makes sense. I'm tired and have a lot to do yet tonight.
My husbands family will be coming over tomorrow and I will be preparing most
of the meal. David deep fries the turkey that grandpa and grandma brings,
along with the dressing, and I do the rest. His mom won't cook and most
years we are lucky if she doesn't decide to just not come (long story). We
don't really have anything out of the ordinary. I was asked to make my
famous sweet potatoes. Didn't really know they were famous. LOL I just
cook the potatoes in water then peel and cut them. Put them in a backing
dish and cover them with a little butter, brown sugar, honey and
marshmallows and bake them till everything is warm and melted. Not much to
it.
Right now I need to go make some pies, get the potatoes on to cook, on less
thing to do tomorrow, and get the floors swept so I can get to bed at a
decent time. My oldest daughter is supposed to be helping in the kitchen
but since I had come upstairs to find a recipe I have a feeling she is
watching more TV with my youngest daughter instead. LOL
Hoping and praying everyone has a very blessed Thanksgiving!
bricbenn
mother is coming back to live with us; she'll be 95 in June, God willing,
and Dave and I will return to "normal" meals. We've had a delightful
respite, all of us, and are returning renewed and refreshed to the task
before us. For Thanksgiving supper we'll have Stilton cheese, rosemary
crackers and brie puff pastry. Along with that, we're having a bottle of
bubbly in celebration and gratitude. God has been, and continues to be, so
very good; His mercy and grace are new every morning.
The day is lovely, it's been raining most of the day, at times pouring
buckets. We've been in a drought situation so the rain is especially
welcome. My morning chores were quickly accomplished and I came back to the
house to knit a hat for the one year old down the road. His mother requested
another hat; how delightful to be asked to knit another hat because "the
first ones were so fabulous but he's outgrown them so I gave them to my
sister for her new-born son." So many people have forgotten how to say thank
you; when some one flags me down in the middle of the road just so she can
say thanks (again) and request another hat...how can I say "no"? She even
offered to pay "any amount because it's just so wonderful having something
handmade for John John".
What can I say except she sure knew how to get to me <g>! I just knit hats
for Dave's niece and nephews' children but am still clueless as to if they
arrived by post. Thanks aside (not really <g>), it would be nice to know if
the hats arrived.
We're expecting snow and have seen flakes, here and there, off and on, all
day. More snow tomorrow and we're thinking of braving the nutters and going
shopping. Our Christmas gifts are either made or purchased, all that remains
is finishing the quilts and then wrapping everything. I still want to send
Christmas cards/notes but that's not a chore, it's a pleasure.
Happy Thanksgiving all with warm wishes for a lovely Christmas,
Sandra @ Thistle Cove Farm
www.thistlecovefarm.com; www.thistlecovefarm.blogspot.com
susa...@kelmerklowns.com
for a lot of things, mostly mundane things this year but still, there's
always something to be thankful for. I put my thankfuls in my blog,
which is listed in my signature below.
We are having my dad and stepmom over, and we have a houseguest who is a
performing partner of my husband's (they are leaving tomorrow for a gig
a few hours a way). I have a huge turkey, my husband got confused I
think and came home with a 22 pounder from the meat market. I don't
know what army he thinks we're feeding, but he came home and said "I
hope this is big enough, they didn't have the 24 pound one I asked
for." Men are so clueless!!
I have pies already done, the turkey is in the oven now, the sweet
potatoes are wrapped and ready to go in later, I've already sauted the
veggies for the stuffing, and my oldest teen is peeling potatoes. I
shouldn't feel too rushed, we'll see!!
The big bonus this year is that our weather is cold and cloudy, which
really puts me in the mood! It also means the house won't get so hot
with the oven going all day long.
-Susabelle
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Elizabeth Hicks
My name is Elizabeth and I home school 2 wonderful smart children Levi and Abby.
we had a quite Thanksgiven we live in GA DH worked all our family lives in Mo. so it was just the 4 of us. I did semi homemade cooking. I don't remember this group either but am glad its back. I have a question for you all. Any information you give will be appreciated. Me and the kids are thinking about starting a vegatable garden patch to sell produce at the farmers markets and the kids want to raise and sell dogs. Any thoughts?
God Bless
Elizabeth
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susa...@kelmerklowns.com
> Hello to all and Happy Thanksgiving.
>
> My name is Elizabeth and I home school 2 wonderful smart children Levi
> and Abby.
> we had a quite Thanksgiven we live in GA DH worked all our family
> lives in Mo. so it was just the 4 of us. I did semi homemade cooking.
> I don't remember this group either but am glad its back. I have a
> question for you all. Any information you give will be appreciated. Me
> and the kids are thinking about starting a vegatable garden patch to
> sell produce at the farmers markets and the kids want to raise and
> sell dogs. Any thoughts?
But veggies...everyone loves home-grown. You would need to plant a
pretty good quantity to make any money at it. When my mom did
subscription organic farming, I worked in her garden two days a week and
it was a half-acre and only fed about two dozen families with weekly
produce baskets. It is also work, but rewarding when you're eating such
good, fresh stuff.
I homeschool all three of mine, 17, 14, and 5 years old. My 17 year old
is starting college in January, he's really been ready for a year, but
he wasn't mature enough to go. I love homeschooling, it has been very
rewarding.
-Susabelle
Michele Thomas
I am a retired empty-nester, Michele in Houston. A vegetable patch sounds doable depending upon your soil, location & weather. I would think raising dogs to sell would need a LOT of research beforehand about breeds, laws, & a variety of other issues before even making a tentative attempt at that endeavor.
Michele