All stuffing is dressing, not all dressing is stuffing.

[Pabs4]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Holiday dinner and related meals are officially finished cooking.
Turkey is smoked
Potatoes are mashed.
Dressing is done
Bacon for breakfast is cooked
Potato cakes/hashbrowns are made
Bread is baked.
Pork ribs are cooked.
Tamales are a finished.
Rumpope is made.
Pasole is done.
Two kinds of ham. An edible one and then one of those uncooked six month dry hung ungodly shank halfs. The dry aged is for my dad(preston county, West By God Virginia) he really plays up the hillbilly thing. That ham'll choke a goat, but he'll say he loves it.

Hell, everyone always says the dinner items are better the day after, so this all (except that ham) should be well aged and perfection.

All that's left to do is a raisin pie and a pecan pie. The others are made.

My dressing:
Corn bread cubes equal White bread cubes
Standard poultry seasoning
A couple of chopped apples
Pine(Pinon) nuts
A couple of pounds of browned crumbled breakfast sausage
Cayenne
Celery
Onion
Squat load of butter and chicken broth.

Cooked seperate from the turkey.
Always consistent.
I used to stuff the damn thing and put up with that mess and the liquid, but no more.
Turkey is now stuffed with little red potatoes and parmesan, quartered. The Turkey fat sure makes those some great potatoes.

Here's wishing you Happy days of your choice of names and affliction.

And
I'll trade you relatives, your two for my one, any time you've had enough.

I’m late to the party but I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! I no longer make dressing at Christmas. We do beef tenderloin, with garlic mashed potatoes and burgundy mushrooms. I do make dressing for Thanksgiving. DucksFace, this dressing looks really good, but very different from my Louisiana Cornbread Dressing. My maiden name is Broussard so the recipe from the south with giblets is all I’ve ever known. I might have to give yours a try one night with chicken. I also cook it separately from the turkey, and yes, I use sage 😊

Wishing everyone a very happy and safe New Year!

Pam

[ducksface]

We just did leftover night with the neighbors. All were out of town for Christmas except us. Five families up here, all gone but us.
Sent them home with half a turkey half a ham, a slab of ribs, half a chocolate chocolate chocolate bundt cake center filler with chocolate, tamales, bread, rolls, ice cream, probably 25lbs total, all the things we don't normally eat. We're both looking forward to being back on a normal diet in the morning.

Thanks for posting.

[The_Breeze]

Originally Posted by ducksface

We just did leftover night with the neighbors. All were out of town for Christmas except us. Five families up here, all gone but us.
Sent them home with half a turkey half a ham, a slab of ribs, half a chocolate chocolate chocolate bundt cake center filler with chocolate, tamales, bread, rolls, ice cream, probably 25lbs total, all the things we don't normally eat. We're both looking forward to being back on a normal diet in the morning.

Thanks for posting.

So, in a way, you're telling me the best part of Christmas is left overs. I agree and leave you with that thought. Happy New Year.

[DogLovers]

Originally Posted by The_Breeze

I believe I know where you're talking about. At least within a 25m radius. Headed north after this: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, S Dakota and who knows where next. May be time to turn south again by then.

Have a safe and happy holiday. May all who will join you arrive safe and sound. And maybe someday on my way through...

You have to do Arizona/Idaho Monument Valley at dawn and sunset. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

[ducksface]

I know it's early but I thought we'd incorporate thanksgiving into this.
I sent out the first of the christmas party invitations today.
Dec 17th is the date.
60 to 100 Will show up.
We inherited this party.
We're usually 4th of july and and three movie night potlucks a year, but the Christmas people just sold their house.

In typical style the spousal unit has taken it from the 15 to 20 it usually is to the monster it will be.
We're pawning it off on the new neighbors for next year.
This year is kinda a group grope with everyone helping, but it's at our shop.

Our few neighbors have parties on
Groundhogs day
April's fools day
Cinco de mayo
May movie(our themed potluck)young Frankenstein, the jerk, cat ballou, creature black lagoon, that sort if movies. Mcclintock is set for May 2022)
Our fourth of july
Movie night
Movie night
Halloween
Christmas
Three birthdays throughout the year.
8 to 60 folks depending on who's doing what.

[ducksface]

Cranberry sauce from scratch.
Pumpkin pie from a real live Jacko lantern
Done.
Turkey the size of a Texas County, defrosting.
Unpasteurized homechurned butter, yup.
Lumpy mashed potatoes, on the list.(we put a scoop of mayonnaise in ours. Calm down. Mayo is just oil and lemon and eggyolk)
Rolls made with Bluebird(Navajo res favorite)flour are being set up for.

Fall dishes and flatware waiting patiently.

[happy]

Oh man...I just drooled.

[ducksface]

Well?
How'd it go?
Someone put blu cheese in the stuffing?
Shrimp in the deviled eggs?
Fermented tofu in the Jello?

It went well here.
Someone brought an excellent cheese ball
Perfect cookies
10 and 11 yr old Grandturds made a lemon cake.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

[MLP]

My son and daughter in law wanted to save all the work. So they made us reservations at a nice restaurant downtown. Nice good, but not great turkey dinner with pumpkin pie, wine, and an adult beverage $40.00!!. Total just under $500.00 with tip. The butternut soup was the best part. So next year we will cook the dinner! I don't care how much inflation goes up, a great turkey dinner will not be near that price. - Oh ya, the cranberry sauce was made with nothing to sweeten it. Not sugar, OJ, or pomegranate juice. It was only a small fork full. Most likely it is never eaten so the small amount?? It does not take a connoisseur to figure out why!

[ducksface]

O hadn't thought of pomegranate.
I always have pomegranate molasses here.
Christmas will get pomegranate and pomegranate kernels.

[Bob Denman]

Still digesting an excellent Thanksgiving dinner, and I don't EVER judge them...

BURP!!!!!!

[Pabs4]

We had our son, daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons ages 5 and 3. We fried the turkey, and had cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, broccoli cheese casserole, sweet potato casserole, deviled eggs, fruit salad, crescent rolls, pumpkin and coconut cream pies. I heard my daughter ask the 3 year old what was his favorite part of the meal. His reply was, “I liked the rolls”.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Pam

[Homer3]

It all sounds good! My favorite holiday food is corn pudding and jello with pomegranate seeds. Pumpkin pie for dessert

[chunker21]

I've been stuffed but didn't have to get dressed. I've also dressed up and gone to fancy restaurants that served "under-fooded" meals and didn't get stuffed.

[ducksface]

The third type of fudge is out of the copper pot and cooling.(It's also the carnitas pot)

Chocolate marshmallow blueberry
White chocolate marshmallow pineapple(an experiment this year. I'm not s fan)
And
Because I found nestle flavored chips on the
'Used food' 50% off aisle at Safeway
Pumpkin spice marshmallow.

Turkey goes from freezer to fridge today for a cooking on the 17th for the Christmas party.
39 RSVP(and a few who will show up).

[ducksface]

Dressing making tomorrow.
Lots of It.
For the christmas party Friday evening,

[ducksface]

Dressing is made. 15lbs.+
Turkey starts tomorrow at 5am.
Fully covered with bacon strips.
500°f preheated oven
Put in Turkey,
Turn it down to 275.
Cook way too long.
Put Turkey and covered pan on about 6 bath towels, cover with another six.
Sit an hour.
Remove bacon
In 500° oven
Watch it every second.
Brown as desired.
Serve.

[MLP]

We were going to cook a ham, but cannot bypass the prime rib for $5.00 per pound. Slow cook on a smoker until internal temperature is 135 degrees. We will freeze and then cook the ham in January.

[ducksface]

Originally Posted by MLP

We were going to cook a ham, but cannot bypass the prime rib for $5.00 per pound. Slow cook on a smoker until internal temperature is 135 degrees. We will freeze and then cook the ham in January.

I saw them putting out the prime rib today at the store.
I forgot to go look.
This'll be our first prime rib christmas ever.
I may have them whack it into 2" ribeyes.

[ducksface]

Party went well.
31 people.
I managed the opening plate with a smattering of everything I knew guests had brought.
But as a host I managed to get to less than a bite or two before something/someone, was needed. Shut down about 10pm. We're all getting older.....

Retired colonel neighbor dressed as Santa.
Lots of stupid pictures.