Planning a Thanksgiving Feast? Share Your Best Stuffing Recipes!

[Pampered_Ashley]

Hey everyone, I am trying to plan my thanksgiving dinner with my family and I was wondering what kind of stuffing recipes all you great cheffers serve. I wanted to mix it up a little so any recipes are appreciated!!:chef:

 

[PamperChefCarol]

I am pretty traditional (some would say boring) when it comes to dressing (and BTW.. why do some call it dressing and some stuffing???). My recipe: onions, celery sauted in butter. I buy a loaf of the cheapest white bread and cut it into cubes the night before and lay it out on baking sheets to dry. Add the onions/celery, salt and pepper, sage, poultry seasoning and my secret ingredient (everyone has to have one!) tarragon to it, more butter, chicken broth until it is the right consistency and then stuff the bird. And, yes, I use the measure-all to stuff my bird.

I warned you it was borning, but it's the way we like it!

 

[Chef Kearns]

I do a rice stuffing. A couple of cups of a mix of wild rice, brown and white rice cooked in chicken broth. I brown a pound or two of sage sausage (depending on how many people I'm feeding). While the sausage is cooking I add the onion and celery. Then combine the rice and sausage. I don't drain the sausage. It is GOOOD!! And very easy!

 

[ChefJoyJ]

I am pretty traditional (some would say boring) when it comes to dressing (and BTW.. why do some call it dressing and some stuffing???).

I think it has to do with whether you stuff the bird or not. Stuff the bird and you have stuffing...baked outside the bird and it's dressing.

I have a delicious recipe for apple stuffing (okay, dressing, b/c it's prepared w/o the bird). I'll have to dig it out and post it for you.

 

[gingertannery]

It may have to do with where you live.. I call it all stuffing.. in the bird or not..lol..
My recipe:
Old family recipe Cornbread Stuffing
4 boxes Jiffy Yellow cornbread
1 pkg Pepperidge Farms stuffing mix (bread)
green onions 1 or 2 bunches
celery small one chopped fine _I use several stocks of celery
Atkins sausage seasoning (or salt, pepper, sugar and sage) secret ingredient!
2-3 eggs raw
6-8 hard boiled eggs chopped fine
lots of chicken broth

4 boxes of Jiffy cornbread mix in the box.. follow the directions and bake. Cool and crumble. Set aside.
Chop green onion, celery, boiled eggs and mix in large bowl. Add crumbled cornbread and stuffing mix. Season to taste with the Atkins sausage seasoning or salt, pepper (use cracked red pepper too), sugar and sage. Mix very well. Add raw egg and mix well again. Put in large pan or 2 11x14 pans.. Cover with chicken broth until soupy -water line just above stuffing...and I mean just above. Put in oven and cook at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until broth is absorbed and stuffing is drier. Can make 1/2 the batch if you want.. but you'll be sad you did.