Holiday season is about to officially kick off in the USA! My readers in other countries feel free to share your favorite foods at your celebrations, too. =)
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Holiday season is about to officially kick off in the USA! My readers in other countries feel free to share your favorite foods at your celebrations, too. =)
My grandma used to make an apple and raisin stuffing that I loved. I asked for the recipe once, and THAT AUNT said to just make stuffing and throw in apples, raisins and sugar. Riiight…..thanks for nothing–AGAIN!!
THAT AUNT is a piece of work.
Recipe for apple and raisin stuffing like grandma used to make. A lot of dried bread cubes, red apples peeled and chopped into small pieces, yellow raisins, chopped onion and celery, a pound of butcher’s fresh pork sausage, white wine, and chicken broth, salt, pepper and ground sage. My grandmother never measured anything. She would let the bread cubes dry out on baking sheets in the oven for a day or two. Then she would remove the pork sausage from the casings and break is up in a frying pan adding the apples, raisins, onions and celery and saute it until the sausage was cooked through. Then she would add the salt, pepper and sage. She used smell to judge the amount of sage. She mixed this with the bread cubes and mixed the whole lot with her hands and a large metal spoon adding wine and broth until everything became a mass that held together. Half of the stuffing went into the turkey which went into her big blue covered turkey pan. The rest of the stuffing went into a smaller blue pan. Since my grandfather raised the turkey it didn’t have a pop-up that told you when it was done. My mother used the same recipe, but left out the apples and raisins because my father didn’t like them.
Here you go, Lisa! Make it and let us know if it’s how you remembered it. =)
Correction, the correct name for the raisins Grandma used should have been Golden instead of Yellow. Fact is, when her (nine) children were young she actually used black raisins in her stuffing . She switched when one of my uncles told his younger brothers that the raisins were really cooked cockroaches.
Brothers!
Since coming to Arkansas … DEEP FRIED TURKEY … which we will be having on Thursday. Although there will be guests this year and less leftovers. Damn.
Oooohh!!! and salad with Kuni’s special salad dressing? and one of her wonderful desserts??
I’ll be down!!
Hmmm, sounds like I need a trip to the Ozarks.
Salad will be had tomorrow as well as on Thursday. There will be pumpkin pie on Thursday, but she will also have this fruit thing she makes with some sort of cream that I jut would put my face in.
I have to tell you, I am always surprised at how good she cooks, I think that when I was growing up being a single mom, she just did not have the time to cook like she does now. Kuni is quite the cook!
I will take pictures.
You’d better. Because you’re thankful for your new camera.
Each year the battle of the turkey rages, and you and your stepdad win. Poor Kuni.
well it is a ridic question. And hey, he’s doing the work … so she can dedicate her self to the sides … and we will also have that green bean casserole. She cuffed me when I said it wasn’t that good.
Please, no Campbell’s green been casserole for me. The pilgrims never ate it. Also I still make the carrot and pineapple orange jello salad for all family dinners that my grandmother/mother always made.
My mother never made that green bean casserole, and I’m glad. I may make squash casserole. Tom and I like it, but Tim won’t eat squash.
green bean casserole makes an appearance early in CK …. but did the Pilgrims serve pineapple orange jello salad?
The Pilgrims served smallpox. It was the Native Americans who served up the good stuff. And by good stuff I probably don’t mean pineapple orange Jell-o salad.
Cornbread dressing although Daylin’ s mother is making stuffing I am taking mother’s dressing cause it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving for me without it. And of course cranberry sauce from the can. I know true cranberry lovers cringe when you mention it but hey I love it! Enough to make cranberry turkey sandwiches the day after.
Don’t worry, you’ll be getting more of that dressing and cranberry sauce when you’re here. That’s the way IT’S MEANT TO BE.
Man, I’m hungry.
Have fun with the family!
I would go to the Washington, D.C., Native American Museum’s cafe the day before, but I do so not for the ambiance but for the remembrance.
That’s a lovely tribute.
My mom’s sweet potatoes which a) is an amazing thing since I never liked sweet potatoes before and b) I get to take a tiny bit of credit for because she got the recipe from a Fried Green Tomatoes cookbook I gave her. Bonus: It tastes like dessert but doesn’t count as one. And I know this because Mom said so.
And mothers know best! I miss my mother’s sweet potato pie. I’m not much of a pie eater, but that was one I always took a slice of on holidays.
So much for popcorn, buttered toast and pretzel sticks. Peppermint Patty should be pleased this time :).
Mmmm, popcorn.
Wine.
I never get to enjoy a glass of wine anymore. It gives me a headache. =(
Cranberry sauce!
Is that the classy kind, or my kind with the can lines on it?
Both!
Works for me!
dressing! Cornbread dressing!
Ate the last of it last night. =)