Cranberry Sauce and Dressing...
 

Momma's cornbread dressing all the way!
Top it with homemade cranberry sauce and you have a winner!!!
Then again cranberry sauce goes good with everything; on top of turkey. If it overflows into the potatoes it still tastes good.
I could care less about the turkey and potatoes and gravy.

Why people use canned cranberry sauce and the disc slicing serving method is beyond me.
Seriously? Is it really that hard to boil water, cranberries, water and sugar?!
My ancestors didn't do it and neither will I!
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Please tell me you're joking about trying to sneak some meat into her food.

Stuffing will be interesting this year- OSU daughter was diagnosed as gluten intolerant this summer, so we will be trying a quinoa based stuffing. BTW, I am not a big quinoa fan (other than quinoa pasta, prob the best gluten free pasta of the ones out there), but the rest of the stuff that goes with it sounds good. Will also make cornbread stuffing for my husband.

southbymidwest, I have Celiac and found some amazing Glutino stuffing mix at Whole Foods. It's made with cornbread which is super tasty. I'd suggest it if you can find it.

This is my first Thanksgiving with dressing since being diagnosed and I'm super excited. :) Plus, I just got the rest of the ingredients for gluten free pie crust and I'm making my first pumpkin pie!

My family would mutiny if I didn't make my grandmother's cornbread dressing. I mince the onions and celery and toss into the cornbread batter to save time, she didn't do that but oh well.

Otherwise, it's crumbled cornbread, lots of butter, lots of chicken stock, and a couple of cans of cream of mushroom soup, then sprinkle heavily with Italian Seasoning. Very simple. We used smoked turkeys, so no turkey stock/broth.

Nobody likes the "giblet" part of giblet gravy, but they want the gravy. Soooo... the only giblets are finely diced hardcooked eggs. It works for them.

I'm attempting this recipe this year: Butternut Squash & Cornbread Stuffing Muffins. I would love something with fruit in it (apples or cranberries maybe) but my husband hates cooked fruit. I love butternut squash, though, and it seems like a sneaky way to add some vegetables. Plus the muffin concept will be good for portability since I'm not hosting.

And for me it's always stuffing. Dressing goes on salad.

When I cook a whole bird, it gets stuffed with vegetables, fruits, and herbs to add flavor without adding health risks. A.K.A. because Alton Brown said so. Besides, how could you experiment with cute little stuffing muffins if you cook it inside the bird?

We are having Thanksgiving at a dear friend's house.
I love and adore this family.

They eat white bread stuffing.

I really will try it, and worse case scenario I will employ the stealthy "worry it with the fork and hide under something else" technique.

My mom is making her dressing from cornbread (her usual). We don't do homemade cranberry sauce so it comes from a can. But we do mix it up in a bowl so it looks like a sauce instead of leaving it in the shape of the can. lol

Three items of import about our Thanksgiving:

-Deep fried turkey. Thank heavens there was a normal one!

-Stove Top stuffing. Need I say more?

-Jellied cranberry slop from a can.

*sigh*


I plan to make our own small dinner over the weekend.

My husband and I went to a friend's for dinner (thanks to them for thinking to invite us!) and the dressing was totally different than anything I'd ever had. It started with regular bread (or crouton) stuffing, but it added EVERYTHING. It had black olives, walnuts, raisins (I think), sausage as well as the standard stuffing ingredients (celery, onion, etc.). I took some prepared to be judgy all over the place. It turned out to be awesome. I really think the long and short of it is as long as it's not that gross boxed stuff (like Stove Top), and it's not over-stirred so it becomes gummy, then stuffing will continue to be the food of the gods, no matter what you put in it.