Age old debate - Turkey and Stuffing/Dressing

[Raptured]

Grew up with...

STUFFING

INSIDE the bird.

Simple Bread & Sage recipe
Cubed white bread, onion, celery, sage, butter, celery seed, poultry seasoning, S&P, broth to reach desired consistancy (I prefer mine soft and a little spongy.  Definately not crusty)

[UltraBudgie]

I am of the opinion that you need at least a little crunchy crusty bits to optimize the gravy/stuffing mixing experience, so it does not turn into boring mush. Your recipe is approved; simple is best. No premixed! The flavour is never right.

I will go out on a limb and say it doesn't really matter if its cooked inside the bird or not. You can get the same results by baking it in a covered dish, and basting it if you like.

If you want to iconoclast, confuse the kids by putting the turkey inside the bread instead of the bread inside the turkey:



Do not do this. It is wrong and bad karma will haunt you.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Grew up with...

STUFFING

INSIDE the bird.

Simple Bread & Sage recipe
Cubed white bread, onion, celery, sage, butter, celery seed, poultry seasoning, S&P, broth to reach desired consistancy (I prefer mine soft and a little spongy.  Definately not crusty)

I basically had the feminist Almost Famous mother, so stuffing inside the turkey was a societal device like making a green bean casserole. She fought the status quo of tradition. Anything too 1950s stereotype was discarded.  

She demanded it be done at least a little unconventionally. As an adult I really topped her in the ideological tradition breaking.

We don't even do a turkey or traditional Thanksgiving food. The feast looks like this because It is a hilarious counterculture protest trend and excuse to not cook. 



It's such a trend pretty much EVERY Indian food place is open.

[UltraBudgie]

It is a hilarious counterculture protest trend and excuse to not cook

That actually looks delicious and you are correct that it is hilarious to protest the smugfeast of british colonialism that is thanksgiving by appropriating indian cuisine as a replacement.

I hope everyone enjoys their food, whatever it is, and has a pleasant thanksgiving. Please don't take things too seriously.

[Maxmars]

When my wife and I were young and childless, we spent a few years celebrating Thanks Giving (and a few Christmases) with ...

Peking Duck!



We even learned how to make the pancakes...  

Sometimes remembering hurts, even as you relive the joy.

[Raptured]

Oh I love Indian food.  I'd take that in a heartbeat if there were any decent places nearby.

My mother was the queen of entertaining....in the 70s....yeah...

Every year while she could still cook there wouild be some kind of jello mold "thing" served on a leaf of green lettuce.  Nobody ever ate it except her.   I always wanted to convince myself that it was a joke but now I'm not too sure.

[Raptured]

@Max that looks phenomenal.   I've never had Peking Duck

[Raptured]

If you want to iconoclast, confuse the kids by putting the turkey inside the bread instead of the bread inside the turkey:

Do not do this. It is wrong and bad karma will haunt you.

That is hilarious.   My girlfriend has been on a huge sourdough trip lately. I had to screenshot and send to her

[quintessentone]

Grew up with...

STUFFING

INSIDE the bird.

Simple Bread & Sage recipe
Cubed white bread, onion, celery, sage, butter, celery seed, poultry seasoning, S&P, broth to reach desired consistancy (I prefer mine soft and a little spongy.  Definately not crusty)

I've tried it both ways, inside the bird and in a separate casserole.

Since I started inserting butter under the bird's skin, I always put the stuffing in the bird but not too hard packed so that it does take that much longer to cook, but even it you hard pack it in then just compensate for the cook time. The stuffing gets all buttery and turkey juiced up with crispy edges with the middle being soft and spongy - stuffing two ways.

What I do is buy the stove top stuffing then add everything, except celery seed, you mentioned in your above post, because the packaged dried stuffing adds a more distinct flavor and everyone in my family likes it that way; mind you that is after I changed up the recipe many many times, adding all sorts of other things like sausage, apples, different dried fruits etc. over the last 30 years.

[k0rn]

We usually have one regular and on with oysters. I’m not really a fan of the latter.