Alternative Turkey Stuffing Recipe?

[amirm]

Great. Will have to try it!

[mep]

Oh I asked her just a while ago, there is one other ingrediant, just cut up celery. Thats it. The trick is the salad croutons. We're fixin to have a thanksgiving type meal next week and with just the two of us it will last for three or four days...dinner is solved!

Tom

No chicken broth or turkey stock? No poultry seasoning? No salt and pepper?

[tomelex]

No chicken broth or turkey stock? No poultry seasoning? No salt and pepper?

I have been admonished by Diana to do this thing right:

9 cup recipe below stuffs 12# turkey (or chicken etc) .

--- 3/4 cup minced onions (actually use fresh onions, just what you do with a knife is fine..no dried onions)

---1 1/2 cup celery chopped up

--- 1 cup real butter

--- 9 cups of herbed seasoned croutons (Mrs Cubbisons herb seasoned is acceptable but try others)

--- if desired, 2 teaspoons of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper

In large skillet cook and stir onions + celery + butter until onions tender. Stir in 1/3 of total croutons and let butter coat them well (more if they fit). Turn into a deep bowl, add remaining croutons and toss to soak in butter.

If cooking in a pan (not inside the turkey) then bake for about 40 minutes at 325F.

Thats all there is to it. Simple. Enjoy. She uses a bit more butter than required...and thats her secret Mark!

Tomelex

[Ronm1]

Always make a meat stuffing

I don't have an itemized recipe just ingredients, as my parents/grandparents made it

ground pork simmered with just enough water to barely cover
break it up with a potato masher for a couple of hrs, the idea here is to simmer the meat so it breaks down to later combine completely with the bread for binding
Dice celery/onions, amount is your call half goes in after about 30min, rest when pork is finished
poultry seasoning I like Durkees
3 types of Sage rubbed, ground and fresh made into a chiffonade, added just before the bread
when pork is done I let it sit about 10min to judge liquid content, add broth or water if needed
Pepperidge Farm herb seasoning stuffing mix(not cube or corn bread) gets mixed in to, completely combine with pork mixture, one adds/mixes till texture is right, course thats open ended but tis what it is and goes back to the pork breaking down.
My sons have watched me make it now a few times so the process gets carried on....
The seasoning/sage can be added at various times for flavor layers and taste adjustments

Like a # of family traditions this has always been made by me for the last 20yrs and brought to wherever the turkey feast is. Kins always look forward to it, as an ex... niece is in the military, could not make Tday but did come home at Xmas. We were reminded many times to save some for her to have during the holidays, its the only gift she wanted.

[John72953]

Nekkid 12lb bird

Base for gravy. Doesn't look like much, but it's all you need. Onions, Turkey neck, Heart, carrots, whole peppercorns and some chicken broth.

Stuffing - Bread, ground pork, onion, seasonings, apples, sultana raisins, and an egg to bind.

Dressed and finished. Super, super moist! 185 on the side, 165 deep inside the breast. Took 5 hrs for a 12lb bird at 325.

A little ambiance

[John72953]

Dinner was absolutely fantastic. Cooked the bird for about 5 hours on 325 as I mentioned. Without a doubt the most moist bird I have had to date. Had us some leftovers the following day for lunch and some Hot Turkey sandwiches for dinner. This morning I tore apart the bird and pulled off all of the remaining white/dark meat to make a pie. Will have it for dinner tonight with a nice salad.

Just out of the oven....... (sorry...I only have a cheap point and shoot camera)