DRESSING

Well, here it is two days before Thanksgiving and things are starting to get prepared (kinda). OK I made the cornbread. Yesterday was a BAD DAY first the TV blew up (literally) then the sprayer on my kitchen sink got stuck again and soaked me and the kitchen. May today be somewhat better for mine and everybody elses sake. Back to Thanksgiving, there are a million recipes out there for stuffing/dressing. I only know one. Its kinda like my Moms , but its kinda not. I guess its just Mine all Mine.



Dressing

3 boxes Jiffy Cornbread

White Bread ~ about half the loaf

Wheat Bread ~ about half the loaf

celery (one bunch)

purple onion (large)

eggs (about 6)

chicken broth (2 to 3 cans)

salt ~ to taste

pepper ~ to taste

sage ( I use alot ~ almost the whole can)



Several days before Thanksgiving you need to bake the corn bread and cut into 1 inch pieces. It needs to dry out. Also you need to tear up about a half a loaf each of white bread and wheat bread (i think i add the wheat in there so it sounds healthier) Leave it out or put it in the oven, stir it up couple times a day so all of it can somewhat dry out. (If need be you can put it in the oven on low for several hours for a little help with the drying out process)

The nite before Thanksgiving, chop the celery and onion and mix it with the dried bread in a very large bowl add salt and pepper and lots of sage, refrigerate over night.

Thanksgiving morning get that out of the fridge, let it set for a while and then you will add the beaten eggs and some chicken broth. You don't want it soggy, but you want it to stick together. Put it in a 9x13 pan ( kinda fluff it up a little, you don't want to smooth it out on top ) and bake 350 for about 1 hour till it starts to brown on top. holy cow!



Happy Thanksgiving and ENJOY!

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving Day is coming up real fast, so I am starting to plan the meal. I cook the same thing every year but I still plan for it every year. It's pretty basic and the easier the better

1 Turkey

2 Dressing

3 Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

4 chicken and dumplings

5 Green Beans

6 corn

7 salad

8 Rolls

9 pumpkin pie and/or pumpkin cake

10 pecan pie

Sometimes My Husband smokes the turkey and that just takes one thing off my list YEA! But a lot of the time I like my turkey cooked in the oven the old fashioned way. It's just as easy, it just takes up some of that precious oven room and time. The dressing is the same ol dressing that I have made for years and years (Kinda chunky and thick almost cake like) and then there is the dumplins I CONFESS I CHEAT! I have tried to make homemade dumplins and yucky, they never turn out so I stick with the can biscuit recipe that my mom used and we love them. Now don't get me wrong , if we go somewhere and they have homemade dumplings don't think I'm gonna pass them up because they're not biscuit ones. NO SIRREE.

Yes the Green Beans on the list will more than likely be the almighty green bean Casserole the I'm sure every other table in America will have too. (My boys like it What can I say?)

As far as the salad goes sometimes its a toss salad, and sometimes its a broccoli salad. This year I'm thinking Broccoli Yum

well that's a good start on my preplanning Now I've just got to get the house cleaned (even though its just me, my husband, my boys, and a couple of friends I still like the house to be fixed up for the holiday) and shop for all that food.

Thanksgiving will be here and gone before you know it and left an extra 5 pounds on your but. Then guess what! Its CHRISTMAS TIME with even more eating and more pounds on my A$$ Oh well new Years Resolutions are right after that. Maybe this year I'll stick with mine ( that means weight loss)

Have a Great Day!