Stuffing vs.Dressing

On Mon 07 Nov 2005 12:35:11p, Damsel in dis Dress wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

-L. said:

Whatever you do, don't put fruit in dressing. That's just disgusting.

So are giblets. {shudder}

Carol

Giblets are for the gravy! :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I *think* that's it for carbs. It'll definitely be a cheat day.

Carol

Uhm... aren't you forgetting all the horsderves?

Somebody always came with chopped chicken liver pate.

Most memorable scolding: "Andy, save some for the guests!!!"

Andy

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Although I like sausage, I don't care for it in dressing. Just
seems wrong. :-)

If sausage stuffing is wrong, I don't wanna be right ...

nancy

On Mon 07 Nov 2005 12:38:47p, wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

On 7 Nov 2005 12:24:47 +0100, Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Warning, heretic coming!

Cornbread dressing with onions, celery, pecans, and dried cranberries,
seasoned with sage and poultry seasoning.

Moist inside, but crusty on top.

Add another heretic.

HEY NOW! Your stealing my secret family recipe there! I think I better
file a DMCA violation fast! : )

Choices, choices, so many choices.......What to make stuffing or
dressing....cornbread or regular.......... I could have a stuffing &
dressing buffet! : )

Guess I better decide here soon and this thread with its suggestions is
probably not going to help me. Just add more choices . 🙂

Oysters I can go either way on, I like it, but not as much as just
plain. About one serving spoon full is my quota for the year. The plain
& fruit/nut versions I tend to heap on like the mashed potatoes,
MOUNTAINS of them. (This is a yam/sweet potato free zone). Sort a like
turkey dinner(s). A few servings over the course of the next 2 months,
and that's it. Turkey is banished except for cold cut turkey and that's
only on the 3rd blue moon on the 3rd thursday of the week, ie: rare.

Adding fruit & nuts to it was something I only started recently after
having it someplace this way. Not a big seller at my holiday meal ( I
made 2 one with fruit/nuts, one with out), but it was a big hit for the
work meal. I actually would prefer to have the nuts/fruit now, so I
will end up making 2 and possibly 3 (oyster) this year.

I wasn't raised eating turkey. We always had a roasted capon for
Thanksgiving. I don't really like turkey, but acquiesce to roasting a
bone-in turkey breast just for Thanksgiving. I will eat regular bread
dressing, but I only make (and prefer) cornbread dressing. I don't like
oysters, and would not eat them in any kind of dressing. Although I like
sausage, I don't care for it in dressing. Just seems wrong. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Mon 07 Nov 2005 12:43:15p, Andy wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

Ahh, Thanksgiving growing up ... the mashed turnips, the dry
turkey, the canned ham ... the canned cranberry sauce ... the
tension you could cut with a knife. Those were the days, indeed.
(laugh)

I remember the house being full of laughter AND loud. Pop would take all
the booze out of the cabinet and put it on the kitchen table with glasses
and ice bucket and he made sure that new arrivals stop there first, after
I took their coats and dumped 'em on the bed in the master bedroom.

We always had holiday meals at my grandparents' house. I was an only child,
the only grandson, and the oldest grandchild. I always got to eat with the
adults. My cousins ate at the kid's table. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:12:27p, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Although I like sausage, I don't care for it in dressing. Just seems
wrong. :-)

If sausage stuffing is wrong, I don't wanna be right ...

nancy

LOL! I know lots of people like it. It's just me. I'm just expecting to
encounter meat when I tucking into dressing. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:21:10 -0800, "Spitzmaus" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

So, what do the rest of you do with the bread stuff you make for
Thanksgiving? (I'll just plug my ears when people start talking about
corn bread or oysters) 😉

My apologies, Damsel, but give me the cornbread "stuff," baked apart from
the bird and made the way my Southern mama taught me (no hillbilly, she, but
a proper Virginian). Nix on the oysters, though.

That's okay, I'm covering my ears. 😉

Quoted message said:

Another Thanksgiving comestible question: Homemade or um, er, CANNED
cranberry sauce??

HOMEMADE. Or Semi Homemade if you prefer to squash up a can of
jellied cranberries and add God knows what to it. Heehee!

Carol

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:30:17 -0500, "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

That's a no brainer ... once you make homemade you think,
why did we grow up eating that jellied stuff from a can, with
the lines on it. No wonder I didn't care for it. Can anything
be easier to make yourself? And so good.

Same here.

Quoted message said:

Ahh, Thanksgiving growing up ... the mashed turnips, the dry
turkey, the canned ham ... the canned cranberry sauce ... the
tension you could cut with a knife. Those were the days, indeed.
(laugh)

How did your mother prepare her hams?

Carol, trying to look innocent

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Oh, the fragrance of onion and celery cooking in butter is
intoxicating!

Carol, who obviously hasn't had breakfast yet.

From this and the other post, it sounds like you have a butter jones!

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Peter Aitken said:

"Spitzmaus" wrote in message

Quoted message said:

My apologies, Damsel, but give me the cornbread "stuff," baked apart

from

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the bird and made the way my Southern mama taught me (no hillbilly, she,
but
a proper Virginian). Nix on the oysters, though.

Another Thanksgiving comestible question: Homemade or um, er, CANNED
cranberry sauce??

Canned is too sweet, and homemade is completely simple. No contest.

--
Peter Aitken

I'm in agreement, of course, but curious as to others' Thanksgiving
cranberry sauce traditions. We've been enjoying a version with port and
dried figs for a number of years now; the orange-y one on the back of the
Ocean Spray package pales in comparison, or so say my family members.

Spitz
--
"Home, James, and don't spare the horses!"

Wayne Boatwright said:

Giblets are for the gravy! :-)

Run away! Run away!

Carol, who eats the liver plain

Andy q said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I *think* that's it for carbs. It'll definitely be a cheat day.

Carol

Uhm... aren't you forgetting all the horsderves?

My parents' French teacher called them horse's ovaries. *giggle*

Quoted message said:

Somebody always came with chopped chicken liver pate.

Chopped liver was unheard of in my house. But there was a
braunschweiger thingie ...

Quoted message said:

Most memorable scolding: "Andy, save some for the guests!!!"

That would be black olives for me!

Carol

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:12:27 -0500, "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Although I like sausage, I don't care for it in dressing. Just
seems wrong. :-)

If sausage stuffing is wrong, I don't wanna be right ...

ROFL! Crash has a yearning for shrimp in the dressing. The ooky look
on my face has convinced him that this might not be the best course of
action. My ex-sister put shrimp in one year and he really liked it.
We're gonna add chopped pecans instead.

Carol

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:43:13 GMT, [email hidden] (Curly

Sue) said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Oh, the fragrance of onion and celery cooking in butter is
intoxicating!

Carol, who obviously hasn't had breakfast yet.

From this and the other post, it sounds like you have a butter jones!

Busted! I love the stuff. But we still use under a pound per month.
I went and had a bowl of fruit and yogurt (there's no "h" in that word
here in Minnesota). Gotta get some Grape Nuts to put on top.

Carol

"Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:30:17 -0500, "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Ahh, Thanksgiving growing up ... the mashed turnips, the dry
turkey, the canned ham ... the canned cranberry sauce ... the
tension you could cut with a knife. Those were the days, indeed.
(laugh)

How did your mother prepare her hams?

Carol, trying to look innocent

Don't *make* me come over there, faucet girl.

nancy

Wayne Boatwright said:

We always had holiday meals at my grandparents' house. I was an only child,
the only grandson, and the oldest grandchild. I always got to eat with the
adults. My cousins ate at the kid's table. :-)

You "got" to eat with the adults? That was no prize! Lemme tell you,
the kids' table was more fun, especially as it was set up in another
room away from boring adults 🙂

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Quoted message said:

Most memorable scolding: "Andy, save some for the guests!!!"

That would be black olives for me!

Carol

Gherkins for me.
Goomba

Curly Sue said:

You "got" to eat with the adults? That was no prize! Lemme tell you,
the kids' table was more fun, especially as it was set up in another
room away from boring adults 🙂

Sue(tm)

With a couple of teenagers to spur on some excitement!
Goomba

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:21:10 -0800, "Spitzmaus" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Another Thanksgiving comestible question: Homemade or um, er, CANNED
cranberry sauce??

We always had the canned stuff, which I like. I also like homemade
cranberry sauce. Generally I put gravy on the turkey (and mashed
potatoes and the stuffing). Cranberry sauce is a nicety that gets
squeezed in, rather than a necessity.

Which is probably why it's almost traditional to forget the cranberry
sauce until mid-way through dinner. We never forget the gravy though
🙂

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:08:57 -0500, Goomba38 <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Quoted message said:

Most memorable scolding: "Andy, save some for the guests!!!"

That would be black olives for me!

Gherkins for me.

I can't even touch those things. Crash loves them, so they're on the
table via slotted spoon. Just not on my side of the table.
Icky-icky-poo! <G>

Carol