Thanksgiving- Real stuffing or stove top?

[mhsjax]

I made homemade cornbread stuffing last year and we didn't really like it..it was too sweet. This year I am thinking of doing either the Pepperidge Farm stuffing or Stovetop..I could always stick some nuts in stovetop to make it all fancy! I am making mashed potatoes from scratch though!

Just curious, did you use Jiffy or something like that for your cornbread, cause that will cause it to be sweet, and I agree, that wouldn't be very good. I use regular corn meal and make cornbread and it isn't sweet at all.

 

[HelenePA]

real. This will be my first year making it with out the help of my dad... I miss that man.

 

[sha_lyn]

Just curious, did you use Jiffy or something like that for your cornbread, cause that will cause it to be sweet, and I agree, that wouldn't be very good. I use regular corn meal and make cornbread and it isn't sweet at all.

I meant to ask the same question

BTW...IMHO jiffy mix is not corn bread LOL

 

[mirmartinez]

Hi, I'm doing thanksgiving this year for my inlaws and I'm super excited! My whole life thanksgiving has really been a big deal in my family. My mother always went all out cooking the thanksgiving dinner ever year (as I'm sure most people do) and we always had REAL stuffing.

My husbands family on the other hand, do not make a big deal out of anything. When he was a teenager he said his mom would just cook a regualer meal (chicken, rice, pasta, those types of meals that they had every other night) for them for thanksgiving dinner, she didnt even bother with the whole turkey thing.

This thanksgiving I told my husband I making real stuffing, from scratch, and he told me not to. He said I should just make stove top stuffing cuz thats all his family has evr known and they probly wont like anything different that they have never had b4. I would much rather serve real stuffing. I think I'd be kind of embarassed serving stove top on thanksgiving! (no offense to those of u who do or would, I just perfer to make things from scratch). What do all of u make? Thanks

Both is a great idea, that is what we do.
I also make instant potatoes for my MIL (she prefers them, I never even heard of them until I met her), as well as traditional

 

[PaDisney02]

Who has a good mac n cheese recipe. Every year mine is ok...I want to try to improve it this year. Thanks so much for all ur input. i getting really excited for thanksgiving!

 

[Topper]

I meant to ask the same question

BTW...IMHO jiffy mix is not corn bread LOL

It doesn't pretend to be, it is corn muffin mix

 

[lovesmurfs]

On Thankgiving and Christmas, homemade stuffing. The rest of the year, Stove Top.

My homemade stuffing is completely different and includes sausage, cranberries and apples. It's wonderful! http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Awesome-Sausage-Apple-and-Cranberry-Stuffing/Detail.aspx?prop31=4

ETA: I never include the liver....my mom used to include giblets in her stuffing, and it was always a shock to get a bite of it....

 

[sha_lyn]

Who has a good mac n cheese recipe. Every year mine is ok...I want to try to improve it this year. Thanks so much for all ur input. i getting really excited for thanksgiving!

Ours is different than most recipes I've seen because you don't make a roux/cheese sauce. The cheese is tossed with the noodles and a mixture of eggs, milk etc is poured over the top.

Paula Dean's recipe is really close

http://www.recipezaar.com/Baked-Mac-and-Cheese-291879

Just use all milk instead of milk and sour cream. Add an additional egg and use colby cheese in place of the american. Also let the noodles cool a little frist so the cheese doesn't melt too much when tossing them together.

 

[disneyjunkie]

ETA: here is one that is like what my family has made for yrs
http://www.recipezaar.com/Cornbread-Dressing-44692

That is almost the same recipe my family uses. The only difference is we add finely diced boiled eggs and chicken gizzards. We make both stuffing and dressing.

I thought we were the only ones who added dry toast to cornbread stuffing.

 

[Princess_Michelle]

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[disneyjunkie]

My in-laws put VEGETABLES in their Jell-O and eat it with a side of Mayo!!! I think it's ABSOLUTELY disgusting, and I say all the time that it's b/c Yankee's don't know how to cook good food But in reality, it's just that everyone has a different idea of what tastes good, and that idea can be influenced by what they are used to.

Hey, I'm a yankee, but you would never know it by the way I cook.
(both of my parents are from South Carolina)

 

[Jennifer S]

I like Stove top but i LOVE this one!!!


This amount will easily stuff a 20 pound bird with plenty of left over to bake in a dish.


2 loaves potato bread
2 loaves 12 grain bread or some other type whole grain bread
1 pound butter
2C small dice celery
2C small diced sweet onion
2 cans of chicken stock
2T kosher salt
2T fresh ground black pepper
2T poultry seasoning


Dice bread into ½” cubes and place in 2 very large mixing bowls. I use one of each loaf for each bowl.

In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter
Add celery and onion and cook until soft.
Add chicken stock, salt, pepper and poultry seasoning and turn off heat

When cool enough to handle, divide mixture into the two bowls of bread cubes
Using a large spatula, blend the butter mixture into the bread cubes

Stuff turkey, both the cavity and neck end with the stuffing and bake as directed. A 20 pound turkey takes about 6 hours or more at 325 degrees.

Bake the extra stuffing in a baking dish for about 30 minutes covered with foil.

 

[JessicaR]

I'd make both. StoveTop only takes 10 minutes.

Thats what I used to do when my husband and I first got married. His family liked stovetop. Now all these years later I only make the homemade one and they eat it up!

Cubed day old crust-less white bread, apples, celery, onions,poultry seasoning,butter, salt, pepper, and chicken stock. Stuffed inside the bird! Yummy.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I always make Stove Top, but then again John and I are the only ones who eat it.

 

[sha_lyn]

That is almost the same recipe my family uses. The only difference is we add finely diced boiled eggs and chicken gizzards. We make both stuffing and dressing.

I thought we were the only ones who added dry toast to cornbread stuffing.

We use stale biscuits instead of toast. I have been known to toast the biscuits if they are too moist and fluffy.
Our eggs and gizzards always go in the gravy instead of the dressing

 

[sha_lyn]

I think everyone has different tastes. There is no lost art in this house... I cook practically EVERYTHING from scratch, I also can stuff. I already have my homemade cranberry sauce that I canned in my cabinet. I have made plenty of homemade stuffing, all different kinds, and I come from a whole line of southern cooking women, so I have tasted all kinds of THEIR homemade stuffing, and I still like stove top better. For what it's worth, I think things like apples and raisins in stuffing is downright disgusting! So maybe that's why I like stove top better...

My in-laws put VEGETABLES in their Jell-O and eat it with a side of Mayo!!! I think it's ABSOLUTELY disgusting, and I say all the time that it's b/c Yankee's don't know how to cook good food But in reality, it's just that everyone has a different idea of what tastes good, and that idea can be influenced by what they are used to.

ITAabout the apples raisins etc. Like what is the deal with putting oysters in the stuffing/dressing? I coudl see if serving it as an entree, but as a side to poultry, I just don't get it.

 

[ajk912]

Just curious, did you use Jiffy or something like that for your cornbread, cause that will cause it to be sweet, and I agree, that wouldn't be very good. I use regular corn meal and make cornbread and it isn't sweet at all.

I think I did use jiffy now that i think about it. Ugh. We all forced it down, though!

 

[Boots]

I use Paula Deen's southern cornbread stuffing. It is very good. I don't stuff it in the turkey, I put it in a pyrex dish and took it as a dressing. It makes a lot, so I usually put it in two seperate containers and freeze one of them for Christmas. Freezes well as I have done this for several years. I don't know how to put in the web site but go to Paula's web site and do a 'search recipes' and put in southern cornbread stuffing. It will show up two with this name. One of them has rice. That is not it. It is the other one. Hope this helps! Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

[shortbun]

Make what you want. They are adults and can stand trying new things once in a while. I wouldn't make anything too exotic though-like skip the oysters and gizzards maybe, lol.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Neither. After years of "stuffing" being bread crumbs and melted butter baked in a square CorningWare dish... and then Stove Top much of my adult life... Country Crock makes a line of side dishes, found in the meat section. In November, they add - to the mashed potato varieties and the macaroni & cheese - stuffing. It just needs to be microwaved or heated on the stove.