Kitchen

[Irshgrl31201]

I make two different dressings. We don't stuff the bird and use casserole dishes to make each one. With one I use cornbread for a traditional southern stuffing and the other stuffing is made with pain de campagne bread. I get that bread at Fresh Market like another poster mentioned. I live in NC now after living in NY for most of my life and it is really hard to find good bread here. You can't just go to a regular grocery store and get a good crusty bread like you can in NY but Fresh Market probably carries what I am most used to in a crusty bread.

[benzgirl]

Like my mom, I always use a good loaf of Italian bread from the bakery. Has to be bakery bread!

[elmosmimi]

Brewhaha, you are a riot. Do you do stand-up comedy?

[RedTop]

I have started saving leftover bread for my Thanksgiving dressing. I use a combination of cornbread, leftover hotdog and hamburger buns, and leftover biscuits.

[rudy]

Cornbread, what else?!

[betteb]

On 11/6/2014 Hooty said:

I use Pepperidge Farm herb seasoning stuffing mix along with cornbread made from Jiffy corn bread mix! I like using the herb mix, then all I have to add is black pepper for seasoning!

This. My mom used to make the cornbread from scratch, but I use Jiffy and Pepperidge Cubed Stuffing Mix.

[KentuckyWoman]

I use day old biscuits. I make them as soon as I get out of bed on the morning before Thanksgiving. I make about three dozen. My recipe for dressing is an old family favorite handed down from my grandmother. Mother never stuffed the turkey. She served it as a side dish and used a one half cup ice cream scoop to make it in ""dressing balls."" That's how most people around here make their dressing.

[Nightowlz]

My sister makes her stuffing using Jiffy Corn Bread mix. She makes it using 2/3 cup buttermilk instead of milk. Uses almost twice as much buttermilk as milk & it's really moist. I was crumbling it up one year at Christmas & it was really moist I could not quit eating it. LOL!!! My sister said quit eating that I need it for my stuffing.

[betteb]

On 11/6/2014 rudy said:

Cornbread, what else?!

Ok Rudy, I will try..but no real written recipe.

2 boxes Jiffy Mix mixed up to the package directions, to this add, 1 med chopped onion, the top third of a bunch of celery, chopped and a couple of tabls of good quality rubbed sage.

Bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes. Cool and break it up into a large mixing bowl. Add 1 bag of Pepperidge Farms Cubed Stuffing Mix and enough Swanson Low Sodium Chicken broth to make it pretty moist. 3-4 cans I think..

[Yahooey]

OP here. Thank you for all the replies. Think I'm going with Jiffy cornbread and either Pepperidge stuffing or hearty fresh loaf. A mixture of the two sounds like a good fit. Since I've never used cornbread, I don't know if it would be too rich.