This made me sad at the grocery store last night

[Fritzo]

Have you figured out where your wife bought thanksgiving dinner at?

Heh...I make the dinner in our house

 

[Rudee]

My neighbor has an incredible stuffing recipe that is made from stove stop stuffing. She adds a ton of other ingredients to it, such as sausage, wild rice, cranberries, and a bunch of other veggies, and it turns into something that you'd never thing started out as a package of crappy stove stop stuffing. It's friggin amazing. People always ask her for the recipe, and I think she gave the recipe to my girlfriend. It's the best stuffing recipe I've ever had, and I love my stuffing. Perhaps it can be found on google. I dunno.

 

[Perknose]

My neighbor has an incredible stuffing recipe that is made from stove stop stuffing. She adds a ton of other ingredients to it, such as sausage, wild rice, cranberries, and a bunch of other veggies, and it turns into something that you'd never thing started out as a package of crappy stove stop stuffing. It's friggin amazing. People always ask her for the recipe, and I think she gave the recipe to my girlfriend. It's the best stuffing recipe I've ever had, and I love my stuffing. Perhaps it can be found on google. I dunno.

I've done that, adding sausage, walnuts, celery and spices. It can come out pretty damn good.

 

[kranky]

Our local food bank puts out a list of items they would like to have donated for Thanksgiving and instant mashed potatoes and boxed stuffing are on the list. It's quite possible many of those got bought by people donating them. At our company we collected 65 boxes of food for the food bank and there were plenty of both in the massive pile of food.

Don't know what to say about the frozen dinners, though.

 

[Fritzo]

I've done that, adding sausage, walnuts, celery and spices. It can come out pretty damn good.

My standard recipe:

Get day old bread from the bakery (I can usually score it $1/loaf)
Cube it, brush it with butter, and bake it for 10 minutes or so to make it crispy.
Let is sit for a day.

On Thanksgiving morning, I sautee celery, mushrooms, onion, garlic, minced carrots, thyme, a bay leaf, salt, pepper, and mild Jimmy Dean sausage. Mix it with the bread crumbs, then but it aside.

After the turkey is done, I'll take some of the stock and add it to the stuffing. While the bird is resting, brush the top of the stuffing with a butter/egg mixture and bake for 30-40 minutes.

Fantastique!!!!

I got away from stuffing the turkey: it takes the bird longer to cook, the stuffing drips into the stock, you can't put much in there, and a lot of people get freaked out about the blood spots. I like stuffing the bird with carrots, celery tops, and onion quarters now. It really helps the flavor of the stock for gravy and really speeds up the cooking process.

 

[nanette1985]

Our local food bank puts out a list of items they would like to have donated for Thanksgiving and instant mashed potatoes and boxed stuffing are on the list. It's quite possible many of those got bought by people donating them. At our company we collected 65 boxes of food for the food bank and there were plenty of both in the massive pile of food.

Don't know what to say about the frozen dinners, though.

I got a basket of food from the food bank back when I first got out of the hospital. It was all packaged, canned and junk food. I thanked them and asked why that stuff ? They said it's to deal with hunger, not feed anyone for a lifetime.

 

[foghorn67]

Isle be right back.