Grandma Bernices Sausage Stuffing Recipes

GRANDMA RUTH'S STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the mushrooms, celery, and onions until softened.
• Dampen the fresh bread cubes (not the stuffing mix), then squeeze out any excess water.
• In a large bowl, combine the mushroom mixture, bread cubes, stuffing mix, eggs, and 1 can chicken broth. Season with sage, thyme, garlic powder, salt, and pepper, and mix well. The stuffing should have a rather paste-like consistency. Mix in additional chicken broth as necessary.
• Loosely pack stuffing inside turkey cavity before roasting.

GRANDMA'S SAUSAGE AND RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sausage and cook, breaking up the meat, until browned; remove with a slotted spoon to a large bowl. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil, then add the onion, beef and veal, season with a big pinch of salt and cook, stirring, until browned, about 10 minutes; add to the bowl with the sausage.
• Meanwhile, cook the rice according to the package directions until al dente. Combine the rice, meat mixture, mozzarella, Parmesan and chicken broth in a large bowl.
• Place the mixture in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Bake until the cheese is melted, about 20 minutes.

GRANDMA NEWMAN'S POTATO AND SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and mash with milk.
• Meanwhile, place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Stir in green pepper and onion and cook for about 5 minutes.
• Fold cubed bread into potatoes, then gently fold in sausage mixture. Transfer to a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 45 minutes, or until heated through.

GRANDMOM JACOBS' SAVORY STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to broil.
• Place the bread cubes on a baking sheet lined with parchment and drizzle over the olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and toast for 3 to 5 minutes until golden brown. Make sure to watch them so they don't burn. Remove the cubes and switch the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the carrots, celery, onion and thyme and season with salt and pepper. Saute until softened, about 8 minutes. Remove the vegetables to a large bowl.
• Add the toasted bread and saltines to the vegetables. Add the stock slowly, tossing gently, until the bread is moist but not too soggy; you may not use all of your stock. Place in a greased 9-by-13-inch baking dish and bake, uncovered, for 45 minutes until golden brown.

GRANDMA'S SAUSAGE TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• To make this easy to prepare, I chop the onion, celery and parsley first.
• In a large skillet, (I use an electric skillet for easy clean up) chop up the pork sausage with a utensil as it starts to cook. Just as this is starting to cook a bit, add your onion, celery, poultry seasoning and sage. Cook until the sausage is done and the celery and onion have cooked down. Taste it as it is safe to eat at this point. Add more seasoning if you think it needs it. It should taste like stuffing at this point and very good! Turn off heat.
• In a large bowl pour 1/2 bag of the cubed stuffing croutons, 1/2 of the chicken stock and 1/2 of the sausage. Stir well and repeat.
• Refrigerate overnight or until you are ready to use. Makes enough to stuff a 16-20 pound turkey and a small casserole on the side. Spray your casserole dish with vegetable spray and add some turkey drippings to the casserole while cooking. Casserole cooks in about 25 minutes on 325 degree oven.
• Enjoy!

GRANDMA NITA'S CORNBREAD STUFFING WITH SAUSAGE AND GIBLET GRAVY

Steps:

• Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, soda, 1 egg, buttermilk, drippings.
• Place in a large cast-iron skillet and bake 25 minutes at 450F or until golden and a toothpick comes out dry.
• While bread is baking, dry out 1/2 loaf of plain bread by baking it in the same oven for a couple minutes.
• When both breads are cool enough to handle, crumble the cornbread and and pull the Italian bread apart in small chunks.
• In a sauce pan, add giblets, salt, pepper, leaves of celery, 1 chopped onion, 1/2 carrot, chopped, bay leaf, and parsley. Place a whole egg in the water as well. Boil for 1/2 hour.
• In a large frying pan, combine pork sausage, 3 chopped onions, and 1/2 stalk celery. Fry until sausage is done and add to the crumbled bread in a large bowl.
• Mix the bread and sausage mixture, and one can of mushrooms with juice, adding about a quarter cup to half cup of the broth from the giblets for moisture.
• Optional: Add an egg to make the stuffing hold together better.
• Add salt, pepper and sage to taste.
• For the gravy, finely dice the boiled egg and the gizzard of the turkey. Grate the liver. Combine with juice from boiling giblets. Turn burner on high and bring to a boil.
• Optional: Add one can of mushrooms.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• For one quart of of gravy, mix four heaping tablespoons of corn starch into a bowl of 1 cup water and mix.
• When the sauce has reached the boil, stir in the starch mixture.

GRANDMA BERNICE'S SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. In large bowl empty bag of season stuffing cubes. Slowly add hot water and mix with stuffing until moistened. Add defrosted sausage and mix together until well blended.
• In skillet, melt the butter and add the onion(s). Sautee onion(s) until they are golden brown. Let cool slightly and add this to the stuffing mixture, making sure you get all the drippings from the skillet. Add thyme and mix again.
• Place stuffing in oven safe pan and cover with aluminum foil. Cook for 1 hour, and take foil off pan. Continue to cook for another 1/2 hour until top of stuffing has a nice golden crust on top.