Comments on: Dressing

By: LinnieGayl AAR

LinnieGayl AAR — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:28:39 +0000

We call it dressing in my family and it’s usually a mix of white, wheat, and rye bread cubes. Always has onions, and usually lots of different kinds of mushrooms. However sometimes we’ll only put a few mushrooms in and add dried fruit (dried cherries are especially nice).

By: maggie b.

maggie b. — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:09:47 +0000

Leigh: Okay, now that I see that you have a cracker/bread type mixture in the recipe then this makes more sense. When I did a search the rice/grapes recipe came up and I thought why is this called dressing or stuffing.It is just fancy rice. So is the mixture more solid or formed than just rice?

It looks like any bread dressing and it is definitely more solid than rice.

By: VictoriaS

VictoriaS — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:03:13 +0000

We call it both in my family. I use the giblets, onions and celery to make stock. Then I use Pepperidge Farms Sage Bread Crumbs, sausage, (very little salt), pepper, celery, the above mentioned stock (supplemented with canned/box chicken stock as needed), onions, butter, poultry seasoning. The bird gets stuffed, and the rest goes into a casserole dish with a little stock poured on top( to keep it from drying out) and baked.

Th giblets are used to make gravy. My sister-in-law makes the gravy using the drippings from the turkey, a flour slurry and the chopped giblets…yummo!

By: LeeB.

LeeB. — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:54:23 +0000

Though I love Thanksgiving turkey and canned cranberry sauce (I know, totally artificial but still), I have never had stuffing. Just don’t like all those ingredients all mixed up together. )))

By: Tee

Tee — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:59:04 +0000

I heard recently from one of the chefs on the Food Channel that it’s called stuffing when it’s used in that way; ie, stuffed in fowl, fish, pork chops, etc. It’s called dressing when it’s prepared as a side dish separate from the meat. Sounded logical to me.

I just prepare a simple stuffing for the bird with ground sausage, croutons, celery, onions and mushrooms and chicken broth. What doesn’t fit into the turkey, goes in a casserole dish to bake. Everyone seems to enjoy it.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:27:52 +0000

maggie b.: We call it stuffing and the answer is yes. I like the taste of home wildrice stuffing a lot http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Wild-Rice-StuffingI don’t use gibbets but turkey meat very well diced and a bit of broth for flavor.

Okay, now that I see that you have a cracker/bread type mixture in the recipe then this makes more sense. When I did a search the rice/grapes recipe came up and I thought why is this called dressing or stuffing. It is just fancy rice. So is the mixture more solid or formed than just rice?

By: maggie b.

maggie b. — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:12:45 +0000

We call it stuffing and the answer is yes. I like the taste of home wildrice stuffing a lot http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Wild-Rice-Stuffing

I don’t use gibbets but turkey meat very well diced and a bit of broth for flavor.