Dressing or Stuffing?

[JennaTX]

Anyone else eat dressing instead of stuffing?

That is what we call it in my family. It is not cooked in the bird but seperate.


So what do you do in your family?

 

[Tiggerlover91]

My momma did both, more dressing than stuffing and I loved them both. Now, I do dressing only...too lazy to stuff! Sometimes I'll do mashed potatoes just to keep everyone on their toes!

And technically, I think it is called stuffing...STOVE TOP STUFFING as a matter of fact and many choose to eat it outside of the bird.

 

[JennaTX]

I have never had the stuffing that is cooked inside... we make a huge pan of dressing, I don't think what we make would fit inside.


I do make Stove Top throughout the year, all of my family likes it.

 

[CarolG]

We have a big pan of homemade cornbread dressing. I've never cooked any stuffing inside the turkey.

 

[Fan2CSkr]

I make stuffing inside the bird and a casserole dish of stuffing outside the bird for extras. I have never called it dressing but have heard the term used just not in these parts.

 

[KNBNESMOM]

We have dressing. I don't think that I have ever tried to cook stuffing inside the turkey.

 

[JennaTX]

I make stuffing inside the bird and a casserole dish of stuffing outside the bird for extras. I have never called it dressing but have heard the term used just not in these parts.

Ahhh, so you do both. Then that makes more sense. I could never figure out how you would make enough inside the bird if you were having 15 or more people!

 

[shovan]

I make stuffing inside the bird and a casserole dish of stuffing outside the bird for extras. I have never called it dressing but have heard the term used just not in these parts.

I just had to respond, because I love your Steven Tyler pic! We also have a special connection due to both our firefighter's with you all New Yorkers! Here in New Orleans we put in the turkey & outside because we'll run out out dressing/stuffing if we don't make extra! We call it stuffing when it's inside & dressing if it's outside! Even if it's the exact same stuff!

 

[Fan2CSkr]

After reading this thread I went and did a search cause I honestly didnt know the difference between dressing and stuffing. What I found made me laugh!

Around this time of year, the great debate is: Dressing or stuffing?

We asked this question to a number of people in the area and, well, it fired them up.

Southerners think cornbread dressing is the food - or at least the side dish - of the gods, while Yankees think stuffing is the only way to go.

And then there are the peacekeepers who make both.

DRESSING

"I really don't know the difference," said Sandi Lee, who owns the Raintree Farms Bed & Breakfast in Waverly Hall.

"But you want to know what I think? I think stuffing is what Yankees fix; dressing is what Southerners fix. That's what I think and I like dressing."

"I prefer dressing," she said. Her recipe was in Sara Spano's cookbook, "Through the Years," and is a favorite of a lot of people, she said.

"Most people prefer this type of dressing to stuffing," McCosh said. "If they want a real old-fashioned dressing, they use the egg bread and do it like this." Egg bread is a sort of cornbread she makes and then breaks up and puts in her dressing.



STUFFING

"Unless they serve it with stuffing, it's yucky," Tidwell said. "I grew up with stuffing. I'm a bread crumb girl."

Brown makes her stuffing with bread, onions, celery. "We grow our own sage, so I like to use fresh sage.

We don't put nuts in it or cranberries or raisins."

Tidwell does put apples, celery and cranberries in her stuffing, which she calls very simple to make.

"We're voting stuffing," Tidwell said.

"It's called stuffing," said Peggy Cornwell, a drama teacher at Pacelli High School. "Dressing is what you put on salads."


SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Stuffing: Most recipes use white bread. It often has a loose consistency - you can spoon it into piles on your plate - and you can identify many of the individual ingredients.

Dressing: Most recipes use cornbread along with biscuits and bread. It coagulates into one mass - Yankees would say mush. And you serve it up in slabs. Many Southerners swear by it.

That was cute!

 

[Fan2CSkr]

I just had to respond, because I love your Steven Tyler pic! We also have a special connection due to both our firefighter's with you all New Yorkers! Here in New Orleans we put in the turkey & outside because we'll run out out dressing/stuffing if we don't make extra! We call it stuffing when it's inside & dressing if it's outside! Even if it's the exact same stuff!

Thanks! During one of our many trips to New Orleans (my favorite place to eat!) I had turducken, OH my talk about stuffing! LOL I actually made it one New years Eve and it was amazing but SO much work.

 

[Glendamax]

After reading this thread, I realized that I use "dressing" and "stuffing" the same way. I guess dressing is outside, and stuffing is inside right? My Mother cooks it inside the turkey. YES, I HAVE NEVER COOKED A THANKSGIVING MEAL! (waiting for food to be thrown at my head)

 

[mudnuri]

I think it's more about where you live than what the ingrediants are.

Here, it's stuffing. Heck, dressing is something you put on a salad

We do both in the bird and outta the bird. Always stuff the bird, and have a casserole dish of stuffing in the oven as well.

Oh, and not the box stuff either

Brandy

 

[aprilgail2]

I think it's more about where you live than what the ingrediants are.

Here, it's stuffing. Heck, dressing is something you put on a salad

We do both in the bird and outta the bird. Always stuff the bird, and have a casserole dish of stuffing in the oven as well.

Oh, and not the box stuff either

Brandy

I was going to say the same thing...in or out of the bird its still stuffing...dressing goes on salads.

 

[Sandy51]

Dressing, and I do both inside and outside.


Sandy

 

[Missy1961]

Stuffing....cooked inside & outside of the bird!

 

[jekajekalynn]

Nothing beats my mom's crockpot stuffing. It's so good, I used to make sandwiches with it and and turkey days after Thanksgiving.

 

[Luckymommyx2]

We always cook stuffing, never inside the bird.

 

[nucpharm29]

We are a dressing family---cornbread, Yummy!! But funny story, when I went to DH's family for Thanksgiving the first time (they are northerners) I asked if we were having dressing--and they looked at me like an alien--and then when I wondered if the "stuffing" was made with cornbread; I was almost outsted from the family! DH wanted to know this year if we were having the "white bread" kind of dressing--Nope, when he's at my family's it's cornbread or nothing!

 

[dhcoffey]

Dressing all the way and never in the bird!!

 

[OK!]

The terms seem to be used kind of interchangeably in my family, but I almost always say "dressing." And we cook half of it inside the turkey and half of it outside (whatever doesn't fit).