Posted on 11/23/2016 10:37:02 AM PST by Sybeck1
CRACKER BARREL
You will over cook the bird and the stuffing will pull every drop of moisture it can grab.
Stuff the cavity with onions, celery and apples to add moisture and flavor.
Cook the dressing in a separate dish or in the pan, just not in the bird.
I could envision a cornmeal based stuffing that might turn out OK, so long as it didn’t get too thoroughly soaked in peanut oil.
Southern cornbread dressing. MMMMMMMMM. I probably wouldn’t turn my nose up at some good northern stuffing, though. Both can be delicious.
In Louisiana we usually add ground gibblets to our cornbread dressing
Add some oranges and some candied ginger for more aroma. Also use the celery tops with the leaves - tons more flavor there.
A large turkey that has been well brined shouldn’t be dry even with stuffing. But, large chunks of onion, other vegetables or even fruit in the stuffing can work and do help keep it moist as you say.
It is dressing in southwestern Ohio, whether it’s cooked inside the bird, or a casserole, or both, which is what my mother did.
Dressing is for salads, stuffing is for birds.
Maybe next year I will try adding the candied ginger. There is already allspice in the rub.
You need to baste the turkey eveyday hr. And cover with foil. Stuff the bird dressing in the over.. turkey and dress in sanswichs for days
I have lived in the North and in the South.
We mix the two together.
I call it “Stressing”.
My Son calls it “Duffing”.
My wife calls it “The Red Box”.
“Id love to try oyster dressing, I dont think Ive ever had it.”
Hard to go wrong with Paula Deen on this sort of thing, and hers isn’t much different at all from the oyster dressing that I know, maybe even a little simpler. The reviews are very favorable, with one reviewer mixing in shrimp as well which sounds great:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/oyster-dressing-recipe.html
I love both but I have a Brioche/Wild Rice and Sausage dressing that is so good that I’ve simply gone that direction now. It would be great as stuffing too, but doing it as dressing with the Bourbon Gravy makes is simpler, easier and cleaner.
Thank you!
“And”
... with gravy
Embrace the power of “and”.
That is not an either/or proposition.
Neither looks like its been ate at least once already
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