Nannys Thanksgiving Dressing Recipe 42

NANNY'S THANKSGIVING DRESSING RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Steps:

• Sauté celery and onion in butter until soft, set aside. Brown meat and drain. (you can do these two steps the day before and refrigerate) Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Add more broth as needed if the mixture appears too dry; it should be moist. Place in buttered casserole dish and bake at 350°F for about 30-45 minutes. If it has been refrigerated bring out of frig a half hour before putting in the oven.

NANNY ROSALIND'S CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Stir together salt, dried basil, oregano, thyme, white pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and onion powder in a small bowl for seasoning mix.
• Cook pork in a 5- to 6-quart pot over medium-high heat, stirring to break up meat, until browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer to paper towels; discard grease.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2-quart baking dish.
• Add oil to the same pot and heat over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic. Cook, stirring, until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in seasoning mix. Add cooked pork, broth, and bay leaves; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove and discard bay leaves. Mix in cornbread.
• Transfer dressing mixture to the prepared baking dish. Cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Uncover; bake until lightly browned, about 10 minutes more. Garnish with fresh thyme and oregano.

LOOSEN-YER-BELT THANKSGIVING TURKEY STUFFING

Steps:

• In a BIG bowl, add both bags of stuffing mix.
• Chop the onions, celery, water chestnuts (coarse chop), pecans, cranberries & parsley and combine with the stuffing mixes in the BIG bowl.
• Toss with your hands to mix well.
• Add sage, rosemary, thyme, pepper & toss again.
• Break eggs into a smaller bowl. Whisk to mix until uniformly yellow.
• Add 2 cups of chicken broth to eggs & mix.
• Melt 2 ounces of butter & mix into eggs & broth (do not melt butter too hot or it'll cook eggs).
• Pour eggs & butter broth into BIG bowl of stuffing mix & gently mix with your hands (No Smushing, just lightly, lightly fluffing).
• Add enough additional broth to get an evenly moistened (not drippy or gloppy) mix.
• If using as stuffing, use this mix to loosely stuff your bird (don't forget to stuff the front where the neck used to be - makes for a nice presentation as he/she cooks).
• Place remainder in lasagne pan (goal - no more than 2 inches thick in pan).
• Melt remaining 2 ounces of butter & mix with an additional cup of broth. Drizzle over pan of stuffing. Cover pan with tight-fitting aluminum foil & bake @ 325 degrees for 25 nminutes covered & 15 minutes uncovered for a nice crust - adding more broth along the way to prevent drying out (but do not want mush either).

NANA'S THANKSGIVING DRESSING

Steps:

• Cook turkey giblets while preparing vegetables - Save broth - strip meat off turkey neck and save for dressing.
• In deep pan fry sausage and ground beef, use 12 cube butter with meat. Fry until no longer pink.
• Add a few of the diced vegetables, about a cup at a time. Stir and cook, add more butter and vegetables gradually. Also, add spices as you add vegetables. Don't use table salt as the pork has salt in it.
• As vegetables cook down (test carrots for doneness) pour broth and croutons alternately into mixture, keep stirring all the while. The croutons will make the mixture thick, be sure and don't get it soupy. (if you do, add more croutons) add meat from stripped turkey neck.
• May be served like this or put in baking dish and bake about 1 hour at 350*.