Dressing?

[SouthernBelle]

Not clothes this time. The kind you eat.

I'm a southern girl so I hafta have my cornbread dressing (or stuffing).

[Tuckervill]

I was raised in Chicago on white bread dressing. I moved to Arkansas at 11 and learned to love cornbread dressing. My kids know no other kind and rarely like it when I make it from white bread. So, cornbread dressing for us!

Karen

[pll]

I grew up in Peru, so stuffing for the turkey (at Christmas... not Thanksgiving celebration) is Spanish style and based on ground meat with onions, olives, raisins, hard boiled eggs, garlic, cumin... I cannot tell you how shocking it was the first time I saw soggy bread on the table rather than what I understood as stuffing.

[snapdragen]

Mom insists on keeping Thanksgiving traditional (for us) so it's the little bags of cubes. This year I bought french bread cubes, I'll make your basic onion, celery, bread, sage dressing.

Now, at Christmas I get to go all out. I found a wild & brown rice, with dried apricots, pine nuts and other stuff I'm going to make. Unlike my mother, I love doing untraditional things when I cook.

[Brandi]

I am not a big fan of it. But my dh does so for him I make it. I who love to make things from scratch have not made stuffing. Maybe that is why I don't care for it? Anyway.... I got some this year that I reallly liked it was from Trader Joe's. I highly recommend it!

[Pax]

I love traditional white bread stuffing (celery, sage, onion...)!! I could eat it every day, even if it's crappy stove top.

[Zen]

Mom insists on keeping Thanksgiving traditional (for us) so it's the little bags of cubes. This year I bought french bread cubes, I'll make your basic onion, celery, bread, sage dressing.

Now, at Christmas I get to go all out. I found a wild & brown rice, with dried apricots, pine nuts and other stuff I'm going to make. Unlike my mother, I love doing untraditional things when I cook.

i'm with you, Snap.
My Mom never eats the stuff I make so I quit trying. One year I even made some really good chutney.

Your stuffing sounds good.

I've been wanting meatloaf and macaroni and cheese for Thanksgiving. I doubt if I'll get that wish.

[7rider]

Chutney?? One year, one of my cousins made some chutney at Thanksgiving.
My father took a look at it, kind of scrunched up his face, and exclaimed "Chutney??? What the hel* is chutney??" Everyone bust out laughing, and the line has become a standing joke in our family!
Back when my grandmother was alive...every holiday...Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever...had grandma's home made manicotti and meatballs. Oh, boy! Those went faster than ANY turkey or ham with our family.

[GLC1968]

When my brother and I were little, we wouldn't eat the ends of a loaf of bread, so my mother used to tuck them away in the freezer and use them to make stuffing at Thanksgiving.

Now I do the same thing (though not because I won't eat the ends, it's just that they are usually stale by the time we get to them because we so rarely eat bread!). My stuffing uses my mom's same recipe (onions, celery, sage...), but my bread tends to be an assortment of types. We rarely eat white bread, so the assortment is usually, wheat, oatmeal, rye and other whole grain varieties. I was terrified that my mom and my brother were going to turn their noses up at it last year (breaking with tradition and all), but they loved it.

I do love cornbread stuffing, too. And I dated a guy who's mom used to make a stuffing with sausage and pork which was ok tasting but too greasy for my stomach. I've also had a stuffing with cranberries and nuts in it, and that was super tasty too....

[7rider]

Dressing?? I prefer blue cheese. On the side, of course.
Oh...STUFFING!!

Grew up with the stuff outta the red box. That's what I prefer, I guess, as it's what I'm used to. One year, I made some with sausage and it was pretty good. DH doesn't like any of it, really. Well, he'll eat home made stuff...but, uh....won't make it. Since I cook....he eats what I give him! Either way...it's gotta be covered with LOTS of gravy!

This year, since there's just two of us (maybe a 3rd, won't know until Tuesday), I bought a small stuffed turkey breast from Trader Joe's. So...stuffin' is done and I only have to worry about the other stuff.

[MomOnBike]

I bake a loaf of (yeast) bread that has a high percentage of corn in it, cut it into cubes, and leave it over the pilot light over night.

The stuffing has chorizo, red bell peppers, onions, corn, that bread, and um, bunches of other stuff. And cheap white wine. In abundance.

I'm hungry. When do we eat? I'm supplying the cranberry-jalepeno relish.

[SlowButSteady]

Cornbread Dressing with giblet gravy & cranberry sauce on the side!

I make my cornbread fresh from scratch in a cast iron skillet.

The family is funny about it though. I have to make two versions: one without the celery & onion and one with. And I have to dose my mama with tagamet or she can't eat it at all.

I also have to serve two versions of the cranberry sauce: a whole berry, usually with some citrus added AND the jellied stuff that comes out of the can.

We also cook our turkey outdoors on a stake with a trash can turned upside down over it and coals banked up around the sides.

Yum.

[deidre]

I'd like to eat the pan of cornbread

I don't like cornbread dressing. That being said, cornbread dressing was on the menu for our family's Thanksgiving; however, we usually had "rice" dressing dish as well.

This 2nd dressing dish was always on the menu because my mother didn't/doesn't eat cornbread dressing either.

[Tuckervill]

I always always stuff the bird, and save that part for me!

Karen

[Hub]

I can't make it through the day without the word fix and it is supper at my house- We only eat dinner on Sundays and holidays.