Thanksgiving dressing/stuffing? Whats in yours.

[Donw]

My wife and I had our annual disagreement a few hours ago after she asked me what I wanted in the stuffing she is making and I rightly pointed out that she was making dressing. Having been born and raised in NC it will always be dressing. She being from up North disagrees. In support I quoted an article in North Carolina’s Our State magazine: ‘If you want to make an informed guess as to where people grew up, ask them to describe what goes into their favorite dressing. (And if they call it stuffing or filling, please welcome these newcomers.) ’

As to what is suppose to be in it that depends because my one grandmother was from one of the coastal counties, so oysters go in it. My other grandmother from a county just a bit more west always used sausage. I guess that is why my Mom split the difference and used chicken. All of them are great and maybe why I consider it the main course on Thanksgiving.

So what do you call it? And what goes into yours?

[Jfrosty27]

I don’t know what’s in it. Wifey won’t tell me. 🙄🤷♂️

[DTro]

Don't matter what you call it, its all stuffing! In ours goes, bread of some sort, onion, garlic, celery, sausage, sage, chicken stock, and BUTTER - Some times we will throw in whatever else is laying around, parsnips, leeks, giblets,... I love a good oyster stuffing too, but haven't made one in years. Happy TDay!

[smokenoob]

You had me at oyster

[Panhead John]

We never called it stuffing. We always make cornbread dressing, and you’re right Don, I’ve always considered it the star of the entire meal, especially when covered with giblet gravy. Going from memory here but ingredients were: day old cornbread, boiled eggs, chicken broth/stock, cut up chicken pieces, diced onion, celery and green onions, along with salt, pepper, sage and garlic. Cornbread dressing is hugely popular in Texas and the South. People have actually been jailed in these here parts for using Stove Top Stuffing……..🤓

EDIT: We always baked the dressing separately from the turkey, not stuffed inside. After the turkey was done, scoop turkey juices into the pan of dressing.

[Donw]

Sounds just like my Mom’s. 😋 It took a few years to convince Kathy that boiled eggs would be great in dressing. She is boiling eggs right now.

[Panhead John]

Boiled eggs are great in dressing, I’ll bet she loves it. I’ve never had oyster dressing but man, I really would like to try it someday!

[Jerod Broussard]

Dressing, cause you don't stuff a turkey you gonna fry. Everything made on the side is a dressing.

Parents also make rice dressing, move out of a coastal La. parish and it becomes dirty rice.

[Simple_man]

Dressing is what you put on a salad 😂 (originally from upper Midwest)

I like onion, celery, and bits of meat (sausage) in mine

[LA Pork Butt]

Grew of with oyster dressing and like it, but I have come to love crawfish cornbread dressing.

[smokenoob]

Oh man I gotta try that

[GolfGeezer]

Ours, handed down from my Mom’s mom, was always called dressing. It wouldn’t go into the bird, but is baked separately.

12 eggs, whites and yolks separated.
Large egg bread
Head of celery finely ground (we had one of those old ones that clamped to the sink/table)
2 yellow onions finely ground.
schmaltz (chicken fat)
salt and pepper to taste

Soak bread in a bowl with water. Then squeeze the bread to get out as much water as possible.
Pan sauté celery and onions in schmaltz on medium to soften.

mix the celery and onion into the bread. Mix in the egg yolks. Whip egg whites to soft peaks. Salt and pepper mix and then fold whites into the mix. Pour into baking pan and cook at at 375* F like a cake until a toothpick comes out clean.

delicious!

[au4stree]

We don’t stuff birds, thus we never ate stuffing. Mom makes cornbread dressing, no meat(usually) but when she gets a wild hair will put chicken in it. I will say, I’ve eaten creole oyster dressing and wish I had the recipe, that stuff was the bomb! Devine

[LA Pork Butt]

I think I can dig one up for you.

[Midway]

I used to call it stuffing when I stuffed the bird but I’ve been smoking the Turkey naked and I suppose I should call it dressing now.

I’ve carried on a simple family recipe; very similar to the Herb Stuffing Recipe in the Better Home and Gardens New Cookbook. It is hardly new, our 5-ring binder version is over 40 years old.

Pretty simple.
Chop Onion and celery and simmer in butter.
Add the onion and celery including the butter to cubed or small pieces of dried bread.
Season with a version of Simon and Garfunkel and include salt (Sage, thyme, rosemary, parsley, pepper, salt).
Fry then chop and blend the heart, liver, giblet, etc. and add to the stuffing.
Add chicken broth before cooking and a bit of turkey drippings before the last few minutes of the bake.

[Richard Chrz]

My wife calls it stuffing too, although we are both from the north, I call it dressing, unless it has actually been stuffed. My bride does not care about my opinion on this.. she is far more Midwest than me. Sourdough bread crumbs of course.otherwise I follow Kenji’s recipe. My mom also super Midwest], used boxed and I hated it.

[RichieB]

Some call it stuffing and some call it dressing. Called it what you want. Put in it what you want. Just remember have it at the table for your Thanksgiving dinner as it's the cornerstone of the dinner. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[Bkhuna]

You might say it's the keystone of the meal.

[STEbbq]

My family is British and Amanda is from California. We have always called it stuffing and I was wondering what this dressing thing was that folks were making. We’ve done the usual grocery store stuffing, preferring to invest our time in other parts of the meal.

[Santamarina]

I’m a west cost native and it’s called stuffing…even though I’ve never stuffed a bird in my life. It’s baked in a casserole pan…and it’s still called stuffing!

I blame Stove Top commercials from my childhood.

Ingredients are simple…
Bread - mix of different kinds, toasted for extra flavor - 36” Blackstone for the win!
Chicken broth
Butter
Onion
Celery
Thyme
Sage
Salt
Pepper

No egg, so it’s safe to sample raw to ensure proper balance of herbs.

[texastweeter]

Its called dressing. Cornbread, bell peppers, onion, celery, garlic, bay leaves, chicken broth, evaporated milk, spices, and andouille