Pecans are new this year, its usually walnuts...but the carrots go on the outside, cooking in the turkey juice..yummy...Never thought of a little cooked ground sausage, but I’d make it sweet italian....mom put in pork sausage raw and it cooked in the turkey stuffing didn’t like the taste of the fat drippings from the pork...but my father liked it that way....
Sweet Italian would be a good choice.
Even just a fresh sage country breakfast sausage would be good.
You have to cook it first and drain it.
Nobody but your Pop wants all that grease LoL
But onion,celery and carrot are the classic french mire poix.
I use the same seasonings as you with salt and black pepper of course.
I have been making it like this since i was about 5 years old.