Real sho'nuff cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving?
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Stuffing is cooked in the bird, dressing is cooked in the oven. Either way I love em both, sadly way to much.
Might have to try your recipe; I've been mostly disappointed by cornbread dressings in the past as most are too dry.
I've long made my "stuffing" with homemade white bread, onions and sage. Just what was always traditional in my family.
I've long made my "stuffing" with homemade white bread, onions and sage. Just what was always traditional in my family.
hburney
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Add a pound of Striplings medium pan sausage and the drippings and you have my family recipe. I feel sorry for the "stovetop people".
I sure miss my mother. She made cornbread dressing that suited my taste. After she passed away in 2004, I learned just how much I loved her cooking. Nobody has been able to make dressing, dumplings or biscuits like her since.
Last Turkey Day, I had bought $34 worth of dressing for the meal. I should have passed on the dressing. It just was not what I was longing for.
Last Turkey Day, I had bought $34 worth of dressing for the meal. I should have passed on the dressing. It just was not what I was longing for.
ol' geeser
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Recipe almost word for word off my mother's recipe card...she would add some chopped pecans to the mix before baking.....
Recipe seems a lot like my Mother in law used to make. I think she may have put in water chessnuts as well.She wont be on hand to coach us this time so will have to make it on our own. She was a fine old time southern lady from Winterville Ga. I have a number of her recipes that are good cooking.
dcxplant
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I never, ever, wash any of my 5 iron skillets. While the pan is still hot I run it under cold water to steam off particles, then just wipe out with paper towels, then spread a bit of veggie oil all over it.
Thanks so much for the tread and recipe!!
If I got cornbread dressing and giblet gravy, I'm a happy boy. I don't care what kind of bird goes with it. I'll need a roll to clean up all the gravy on the plate.
I learned to my Cornbread Dressing like that from my Gandmother. My oldest daughter is now the "Keeper of the Cornbread Dressing Recipe". Like you say Red, oinions and chicken broth. I like the right ammount of sage in it too.
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sheriffoconee
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I do love Striplings sausage. Any excuse to get off 75 at Cordele and pick up a cooler full....
bassoneer
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Our "Sho 'Nuff" cornbread dressing in the oven as I type. Smells great! I have been summoned to carve the bird! Happy Thanksgiving, B
amazingflapjack
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gluten free corn bread
For anyone who even thinks that they might have a wheat-gluten allergy, there are some great products available on amazon.com, we like gluten free pantry (the french bread), and Pamelas Products, including Cornbread, which we will have tonight! A nice, thankful day to all. Flapjack
For anyone who even thinks that they might have a wheat-gluten allergy, there are some great products available on amazon.com, we like gluten free pantry (the french bread), and Pamelas Products, including Cornbread, which we will have tonight! A nice, thankful day to all. Flapjack
The wife made a pan of cornbread dressing today. I made the cornbread Tuesday night, straight off of the Martha White bag, and it sho was good!
As it was just the two of us, she made a 9" x 9" pan of dressing and some good turkey gravy. Made it just right; also had turkey, taters, green bean casserole, rolls, some sauerkraut, and cranberry sauce. Washed down with a tall glass of sweet tea, of course.
As it was just the two of us, she made a 9" x 9" pan of dressing and some good turkey gravy. Made it just right; also had turkey, taters, green bean casserole, rolls, some sauerkraut, and cranberry sauce. Washed down with a tall glass of sweet tea, of course.
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Frizzman
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Cornbread Oyster Dressing
My mother made oyster dressing when I was growing up. We live near the Chesapeake Bay and oysters were abundant and cheap. She used just a few, cooked and finely chopped with the juice from cooking added in. The base of the dressing was cornbread( not sweet type) with onions and turkey stock from the neck and giblets and plenty of sage, some salt and pepper and lots of butter. It was always cooked in the bird and was moist. I liked the dressing better than the turkey.
I miss her dressing on Thanksgiving. She died in 1989. I have tried making it but it never tastes as good as her's. Good oysters are not as abundant and cheap as they used to be either. I can't stand dressing made from white/wheat bread...YUCK...Too gooey with no texture. I don't like fruit in dressing either. But, I suppose it is also a matter of what you are used to.
All the relatives I had in the area are dead now and my daughter is away at university in Ohio. My wife came home very sick with flu yesterday. So, my Thanksgiving dinner was Banquet frozen turkey dinner and canned chicken soup for her...I sure miss my momma's cooking!
My mother made oyster dressing when I was growing up. We live near the Chesapeake Bay and oysters were abundant and cheap. She used just a few, cooked and finely chopped with the juice from cooking added in. The base of the dressing was cornbread( not sweet type) with onions and turkey stock from the neck and giblets and plenty of sage, some salt and pepper and lots of butter. It was always cooked in the bird and was moist. I liked the dressing better than the turkey.
I miss her dressing on Thanksgiving. She died in 1989. I have tried making it but it never tastes as good as her's. Good oysters are not as abundant and cheap as they used to be either. I can't stand dressing made from white/wheat bread...YUCK...Too gooey with no texture. I don't like fruit in dressing either. But, I suppose it is also a matter of what you are used to.
All the relatives I had in the area are dead now and my daughter is away at university in Ohio. My wife came home very sick with flu yesterday. So, my Thanksgiving dinner was Banquet frozen turkey dinner and canned chicken soup for her...I sure miss my momma's cooking!
OP
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Because of sickness, I have farmed out the dressing and sweet tater soufflé this year. I will cook a turkey.
It will be the first time in nearly 70 years my Mama hasn't cooked dressing on Thanksgiving.
Because of sickness, I have farmed out the dressing and sweet tater soufflé this year. I will cook a turkey.
It will be the first time in nearly 70 years my Mama hasn't cooked dressing on Thanksgiving.
My mother cooked from scratch all her life. She has been gone for several years now, and my dad and stepmom live in a retirement community. My parents divorced when I was young, and my dad and stepmom have been married for 47 years now...but she never was a cook.
Their retirement community has a cafeteria where they take their meals, although they do have a small kitchen in their apartment. It's too much for them to cook a big dinner, so when we go there to see them, we eat Thanksgiving dinner at the cafeteria. It's not as good, but then the main thing is to spend time with family.
Their retirement community has a cafeteria where they take their meals, although they do have a small kitchen in their apartment. It's too much for them to cook a big dinner, so when we go there to see them, we eat Thanksgiving dinner at the cafeteria. It's not as good, but then the main thing is to spend time with family.
It's getting harder and harder to find. I have been helping my Mama make it at Thanksgiving and Christmas Cornbread dressing is supposed to be dipped, with a spoon, not sliced and served with a spatula.
The dressing is done when one can grasp the edge of the roaster with a proper hot pad, and shake semi-vigorously. When the dressing ceases to do an imitation of a particularly scintillating episode of Charley's Angels, it is done.
I'm really glad your mother taught you how to make cornbread dressing right. In my house, my wife has to make two pans of dressing. One for me as you drscbibe it and one for her, that is almost the consistency of Pizza :-( ( Yucko. Don't know where she acquired That recessive gene.) All of her other cooking is first rate. No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without her Really great Pecan Pie. (If you can find new crop pecans. The ones from Wal Mart & Sam's taste like they were harvested during the Truman Administration.)
My Mother has been gone since 1994. Enjoy & cherish every minute with your mother. She is a living national treasure.
Art
DGNY
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Since this year's Thanksgiving is an 'away game', in CT with daughters and family there, I will enjoy some variation of dressing made outside the bird and likely with fruit in it..
So my mind this AM turned to real old-fashioned dressing. Thanks for the flashback to this thread and the sentiments of family love and lore around the Holidays.
Good boost for one's own memories of simpler - and tastier - times.
Hope everyone has a great and memorable day, despite the changing recipes.
Regards,
Dyson
So my mind this AM turned to real old-fashioned dressing. Thanks for the flashback to this thread and the sentiments of family love and lore around the Holidays.
Good boost for one's own memories of simpler - and tastier - times.
Hope everyone has a great and memorable day, despite the changing recipes.
Regards,
Dyson
labworm
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Boy this thread has me licking my chops and I don't mean pork chops.
Lets face it, nobody could prepare a meal like MOM.
Lets face it, nobody could prepare a meal like MOM.
