Dressing/Stuffing, whatever you call it.

[FSUZeta]

ours is cooked outside, made with cornbread and sausage ( a southern living magazine recipe) and is so good you want to roll around in it! i just cooked the sausage(jimmy dean spicy) and corn bread, sauteed' the celery and onion, mixed it all together with the other ingredients and put it in a gallon ziplock bag for the transport to my folks house. i will bake it Thursday morning.

this recipe freezes very well, i just was not on the ball ahead of time.

re: cranberry sauce. i like the whole berry sauce best, and if anyone wanted to make their own for our dinner, i would be thrilled.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Stuffing - inside the bird
Dressing - outside the bird

Originally Posted by thetalady

For me & my Southern roots, dressing is what you make with cornbread, whether it is inside or outside the bird. Stuffing is what you make with white bread.

LOL. From the perspective of my Southern roots, dressing is what we eat, while stuffing is what is eaten by people in some other parts of the country (presumably those parts of the country where they also frost cakes instead of icing them). I can remember my grandmothers suggesting that there is something slightly uncouth about serving something called "stuffing."

I'm not sure I've ever met a dressing i didn't like, but I'm partial to a good cornbread or oyster dressing. (Oysters are mandatory at Christmas, though ours were traditionally scalloped oysters rather than in the dressing.)

[honeychile]

Dressing is always my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner. MC, my mother said the same thing as your grandmother about "stuffing".

My favorites are the aforementioned dressing with ground beef (it sounds awful but it's awesome!) and the cornbread with sausage dressing. If someone throws little bits of apple or cranberries in it, I can deal with it.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I'm not sure I've ever met a dressing i didn't like . . . .

Well, I have now.