Dressing or Stuffing

[Pooh Crew]

If it goes in the bird it's stuffing, outside the bird is dressing. We fry our turkeys so I make dressing. I use a recipe from Southern Living that calls for homemade buttermilk cornbread, a package of Herb Stuffing Mix, broth, celery, and green onions. Simple, but good.

I once tried to make some like my grandmother, but she put giblets in hers. Sorry, but I can't cook giblets.

MMmmmmm...I can taste the leftovers already. I love Thanksgiving!

 

[escape]

Stuffing can be made outside the bird....it does not have to be inside although it was originally inside.

Am I the only one who puts sausage and sage in their stuffing?

Oh, I always put sausage and sage in my DRESSING.

 

[rhanditresmom]

Well, we alternate between "stuffing" and "dressing". When referring to the recipe I use, we call it "dressing"...probably 'cause that's what my mom and dad called it. We use Pepperidge Farm Herb Stuffing, sautee onions and celery in a stick of butter, moisten the stuffing with chicken broth then mix in the onions/celery/butter. After that, we put oysters in ours. I think it is the most delicious thing ever! And I do stuff my turkey, as does my mother and her mother.

Looking forward to my mom's dressing this year.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

yumm! it's stuffing in my house. we make it with old bread, onions, seasonings and butter and shove it in the bird!! what dosen't fit where the sun don't shine gets put into a loaf pan and cooked and that's for leftover sthe next day. the good in the bird stuffing is gone by the time dinner's over.

 

[Keli]

Called mostly dressing around here. I call it both dressing or stuffing, whatever I'm in the mood to say I guess, lol.

 

[Meriweather]

Stuffing.
Dressing goes on a salad

 

[escape]

Good gracious!

I just received an email from the FoodNetwork channel mentioning Paula Deen's (the Southern chef) receipe for Southern Cornbread STUFFING. Everyone knows that here in the South we refer to this as dressing! However, all is not lost. There is also a video of her making this "stuffing". In the video, she actually calls it "DRESSING". According to the Food Network Channel, dressing is just stuffing on the side.

Here's her recipe for the dressing/stuffing:

Cornbread, recipe follows
7 slices oven-dried white bread
1 sleeve saltine crackers
8 tablespoons butter
2 cups celery, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
7 cups chicken stock
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sage (optional)
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning (optional)
5 eggs, beaten

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine crumbled cornbread, dried white bread slices, and saltines; set aside.
Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the celery and onion and cook until transparent, approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Pour the vegetable mixture over cornbread mixture. Add the stock, mix well, taste, and add salt, pepper to taste, sage, and poultry seasoning. Add beaten eggs and mix well. Reserve 2 heaping tablespoons of this mixture for the giblet gravy. Pour mixture into a greased pan and bake until dressing is cooked through, about 45 minutes. Serve with turkey as a side dish.

Cornbread:
1 cup self-rising cornmeal
1/2 cup self-rising flour
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Pour batter into a greased shallow baking dish. Bake for approximately 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
To serve, cut into desired squares and serve with butter.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings

Here is a link to many other stuffings/dressings from the Food Network (and Paula Deen's video)

Food Network Stuffing/Dressing Recipes

 

[christinadei]

I'm from the south and I call it stuffing.

 

[JennaTX]

So far it seems to be more of a southern thing, with calling it dressing. Ours has cornbread and biscuits, lots of sage, celery onions, boiled eggs, and lots of juice from the turkey, and sometimes chicken broth. We don't use the gizzards or other yucky stuff. Man, I am getting hungry for Thanksgiving Dinner!

 

[CheshireVal]

I think it's pretty simple:

if it's in the bird it's stuffing. If it's not in the bird, it's dressing.

 

[Nancy]

My Dad used to make it with sausage and the giblets and I would never eat it! I'm not eating anything that had a turkeys innards cooked into it!

We go to my SIL's for Thanksgiving and her MIL (not mine) makes the stuffing..it is the worst thing I ever tasted..it is so moist that it just sticks together in a big clump. Maybe it's cause it's cooked in the bird, or maybe she just makes crappy stuffing.

 

[Trish Bessette]

I call it stuffing.

I make it with sausage, onions, celery, butter, spices and bread cubes. I don't stuff the turkey rather I put it in a 9X13 pan with pats of butter. YUM, it is so good!

Lets not forget the turkey, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, yams, green bean casserol, coleslaw, kidney bean salad, cranberry sauce, homemade rolls, jello mold, relish platter, chocolate clusters, cranberry and pumpkin bread, apple pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie...

 

[wvjovifan]

Since we don't stuff ours in the turkey, we call it dressing....

 

[ElizK]

I was told it's only called stuffing if you cook it IN the bird. Otherwise, it's dressing. My grandparents are from Texas and make cornbread DRESSING = stale cornbread, stale biscuits, celery, onion, poultry seasoning, some juice from the cooked turkey (or chicken broth).
I saw the First Lady Laura Bush's recipe in a magazine and it was exactly the same. Must be a Texas thing! It's delicious!

This is the way my mom says it... stuffing if it's in the bird, dressing if it's not. Though actually I always say stuffing. Go figure.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I've always called it dressing. That's what my parents called it that too. I guess that's where I got it from. Oh, and mine is always homemade cornbread dressing.

 

[MariettaC]

I'm from the north and we call it stuffing.

 

[Kitty 34]

Stuffing

 

[princess momma]

Stuffing!

Usually I make mine by opening the box & following directions, the Stove Top method. Whenever I've made it from scratch it's flavorless and either too dry or too wet. Bland.

I actually like it a little dry though , with a crunchy crust on top. DH likes it soupy. Since I do the cooking it's crunchy.

Wet or Dry? What do others like?

 

[glass-slipper]

We call it stuffing!

 

[jekajekalynn]

Stuffing . Preferably my dm's Crock-Pot stuffing...