Stuffing or Dressing.

[redhawk0]

Ok...another question...giblet or no giblets in stuffing/dressing?

We do both...since only a few of us like liver/gizzard (the heart gets eaten before the stuffing is mixed...hahaha)....we put the plain mix in the cavity of the bird and the better stuff in the neck cavity. I look forward to my wife's bread stuffing every year....and like buckwheat Paul's wife....we hold it by the legs and stomp it in too...gotta fill every nook and cranny.

I say "we"...because my wife and I do Thanksgiving for the family every year and we work together starting at 5am to get-er-done.

redhawk

[MT Gianni]

We make a large bowl of dressing, stuff the bird on both ends and cook the rest. When it's removed we mix both.

I grew up with giblet dressing and like it. My wifes' family considers it mideivel, so I cook and eat the giblets and neck. Liver is either saved for bait or dirty rice.

[Lance Boyle]

The giblets and neck are cooked in water and then minced. That goes in the gravy with the pan drippings.

Some family does it that way and some don’t.

[Walks]

In Our House, My Wife minces the giblets, half for stuffing, other half for gravy. She too, stuffs both cavities. Mushrooms diced into the stuffing, minced into the stuffing. Neck meat too. Cooks neck & giblets the night before. The water goes into stuffing.

[Char-Gar]

I have never seen or eaten a turkey that has been stuffed. But, I don't hang out with Yankees either. I don't much cotton to Yankee bread dressing either.

Here in Texas and the South in general we eat cornbread dressing, baked in a pan, in the oven Anything else is.....well.....just plain wrong! Lord have mercy on such goings on!

I don't eat turkey guts either, although I have heard of some demented souls that do.

[JoeJames]

I have never seen or eaten a turkey that has been stuffed. But, I don't hang out with Yankees either. I don't much cotton to Yankee bread dressing either.

Here in Texas and the South in general we eat cornbread dressing, baked in a pan, in the oven Anything else is.....well.....just plain wrong! Lord have mercy on such goings on!

I don't eat turkey guts either, although I have heard of some demented souls that do.

Amen brother. I do indeed consider it holy writ.

[Reverend Al]

We cook a Turkey for sure, and it is stuffed as full as we can get it with home-made stuffing and then we use a "stuffing bag" in the pan beside the Turkey filled with extra stuffing because there is always enough Turkey, but never enough stuffing!

[KCSO]

I remember the first turkey my wife made for us it came pre-stuffed. I took in a rough cleaned bird and she didn't know about removing the crop. The smell when that crop got to cooking was some punkins... NOT!

Good thing I gutted it!

We stuff and fill around the bird in the roaster both.

[farmerjim]

Cornbread dressing from an old family recipe, cooked in the oven in a casserole dish.
I raised 4 turkeys one year. The largest was 62 pounds. It was delicious. I had to cut it up to get in the oven.

[Walks]

BOY HOWDY !!!!

You Texans sure are strong minded.

I'll betcha don't like BEER and FOOTBALL neither?

[Walks]

It's my thread and I can toss in a little sideways sarcasm if I want.

[Char-Gar]

BOY HOWDY !!!!

You Texans sure are strong minded.

I'll betcha don't like BEER and FOOTBALL neither?

Strong minded would be an apt term. I am a 6th generation Texas and all the men were ranchers, lawyers, judges or peace officers. They believed in speaking the truth and being right and fair with all people. That said, you didn't want to come at any of them head on. I am a very pale reflection of my ancestors, but I do have my moments.

BTW...I am not a football fan, but I do drink beer. However my go to is Bourbon Whisky.

[HangFireW8]

We make dressing on the stove top, and call it stuffing. But we make real gravy from the drippings.

[MaryB]

Giblets get simmered and added to the stuffing!

[MaryB]

Our tradition is a saged bread stuffing in the bird but there is a casserole dish with more that gets basted with bird juices.

I like corn bread stuffing too but thanksgiving is regular stuffing. My sister will spruce hers up with mushrooms or oysters but regular is preferred by me.

ETA buckwheat Paul I like your wife already.

Walks, the best bit of stuffing is the exposed part that got basted and a bit toasted. As I often am the go to carver any that “falls” on the counter gets disposed of orally by me and whomever might be in the kitchen along with a few choice bits of crispy skin.

Since I put the extra stuffing in the pan with the bird the edge up against the roaster get crispy browned and tasty! I use a Granite Ware oval roaster that is huge https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=h...%252BvXevL.jpg can't remember how old it is, handed down from my grandmother!

[bikerbeans]

I cook a turkey just so i have a reason to make dressing, crispy on top, moist inside. Give me a 1/2 a can of jellied cranberry sauce, pile of dressing and a piece of apple pie and i am good for thanksgiving dinner

I cook the turkey innards separate and let my 4 dogs enjoy them. Gotta remember there are two bags of guts in every bird.

BB

[frankenfab]

Cornbread dressing in a pan, browned on top. The only good part of a turkey is the legs, unless it is deep fried. Ham for me!

[Rick N Bama]

My wife makes her wonderful Chicken & Dressing throughout the year and Turkey Day is no different except that the pan of Dressing we'll have is a super large one due to all the guests we have coming. There will be 16 kinds and 10 adults here and all will be hungry.

[Lloyd Smale]

My wife does it both ways she makes it with bread chunks a bunch of spice and sautéed onions and sausage. some goes in the bird some doesn't. Me im not a big stuffing fan anyway. takes up to much space on the plate for the meat and potatoes.

[JoeJames]

Strong minded would be an apt term. I am a 6th generation Texas and all the men were ranchers, lawyers, judges or peace officers. They believed in speaking the truth and being right and fair with all people. That said, you didn't want to come at any of them head on. I am a very pale reflection of my ancestors, but I do have my moments.

BTW...I am not a football fan, but I do drink beer. However my go to is Bourbon Whisky.

Probably 6th generations at least subsistence hill farmers in the Southern Highlands - Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas Ozarks, and I don't care for organized corporation sports - football - either. Rather be hunting or shooting. I lettered two years in college on the college rifle team. I agree also on beer or ale, preferably dark or amber = Newcastle Brown ale or Shiner Bock.