THANKSGIVING WEEK

[blueberryhill]

I've never had cornbread stuffing and I'd like to try it, I'm actually thinking about hunting down a recipe so I can attempt it. I'm also thinking about baking some bread. I have no idea what has come over me but I'm a little jazzed thinking about cooking/baking.

I've been doing some holiday decorating too. It was dusk out the other night and I was walking through my home turning on low lighting. An undecorated Christmas tree in a darkened room is damn creepy looking. It's big & hulking. I scared the shit out of myself.

I have always done the cornbread stuffing and is a favorite with most people....I usually make up batch of cornbread from mix, and use 75% cornbread (put in plastic bag) and crumble, and i use about 25% dry bread crumbs....any ole' bread will do. I saute onions and celery, add poultry seasonings, i.e., sage, thyme, etc....I start simmering giblets to make gravy and use broth from that to add to stuffing mix, and then add turkey juices to "wet" consistency. add salt and pepper to taste....to dry bread crumbs, just put out bread on counter overnight..then put in plastic bag and use kitchen mallet to make crumbs. Add to crumbled cornbread, then add celery and onions (which you have sauteed
in butter), then drippings/juices from turkey and giblets....Save broth from cooking giblets for basis of your gravy. P.S. Why make bread when Rhodes does it for you. It comes frozen in loaves, buns, dinner rolls, etc. and tastes like homemade bread.