Dressing

Dressing or Stuffing

1 LBS bread (16 oz) cubed and dried

1/2 lbs cooked Italian sausage crumbles (optional)

2 cups Onions diced

 1 1/2 cups Celery diced

1 stick of butter

2 Tbls fresh Sage minced fine

1 TBls fresh rosemary minced fine

2/3 cup fresh parsley mince fine

1 tsp dry poultry season

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

2 1/2 cups chicken broth

2 eggs

If the bread isn't stale, put on large sheet pan, mix with some olive oil, salt and pepper and bake on 250 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. 

in a large pot melt butter (1 TBLS of sausage grease if you used Italian sausage with the butter) and soften onions and celery. Don't brown

Add seasons to butter, onions and celery once they are softened.

Add bread crumbs to the pot. 

Slowly add the stock around a half of a cup at a time. Stir after each 1/2 cup of stock.

the last 1 cup of stock add in the eggs to the 1 cup of stock and mix. 

Slowly add the eggs and stock mixture to the bread and stir until well combined

Add the dressing to a well buttered pan. 9x13 or larger if you want it flatter. 

When ready to bake, blot 1/4 c butter slices on top of casserole spread out

cover with tin foil and bake 30 minutes cover in a 350 degree oven

Uncover after 30 minutes and make 15-20 minutes

NOTE: The dressing was better the next day. So maybe bake it the day before and reheat the next day maybe adding chicken broth or turkey juice to make it not so dry. 

My Sage and rosemary was fresh from my garden this year 2020. 

2022 note: I added italian sausage. I also made my own chicken stock the day before. I baked it in the oven 2 days before thanksgiving. I will then rewarm it in my roaster oven the day of thanksgiving.

This dressing is what my mom has made for years and we are used to it even though it is stove top stuffing from a box. It is delicious.  We like our stuffing moist. 

DRESSING

2 medium onions, diced

2 sticks butter

5 cups chicken stock

4 boxes chicken stove top stuffing

drippings from turkey

Saute onions in butter in a large pan. 

When onions soft add chicken stock until boil

Add 4 boxes of stove top stuffing to a large cooker sprayed with pam spray.  

Pour the chicken stock onions over the stove top stuffing in the cooker. 

Gently mix.

Cool and put in refrigerator and use the next day when you cook a turkey

Or use same day, turn on really low. 

When turkey drippings are ready, Add to dressing until moist. Keep mixing as it heats up.

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