The pumpkin pie just came out of the oven, and the sausage stuffing is made. The house smells amazing! Is it wrong that I'm cooking up the little bit of stuffing that wouldn't fit in the baking dish for dinner tonight? I'm going to watch "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (which we had to dvr because I was cooking) and eat stuffing. Sounds just about perfect to me.
When I make things like stuffing, or dressing if you prefer, I always think of my Mom. We only had her home made dressing (her word choice) once a year, at Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving Eve, after the dishes were washed and the children were otherwise occupied, Mom would head back to the kitchen, in her housecoat, and begin the dressing prep. Pretty soon the smell of celery and onion would come wafting into the other room. If you were sneaky enough (me) you could grab a piece of dried out, torn up white bread that was sitting on the kitchen table in her big brown bowl and dip it into the buttery, celery, onion, goodness........and burn your tongue for you efforts. Mom would be too busy cleaning out the turkey to notice.
By the time she finished there were usually two, if not three or four sets of eyes watching as she mixed the dressing and stuffed the turkey with it. I don't do that, it's supposed to be dangerous. However, for 20 plus years none of us ever got sick......... Then she wrapped him up and popped him back in the fridge til morning.
My stuffing recipe is very different from my Mom's. The only part of hers that I liked was the actual bread/onion/celery. The apples and giblets would be picked out and set aside. Mine has sausage and mushrooms, and it is da bomb! It is also done, so I have to go now!
My holiday memories are so precious to me, but I always look forward to making new ones. Times change, people come and go, old traditions are put aside, in favor of new ones. It's all good. It's life. As my mother used to say, "Life is what you make it." and with our holiday traditions she made ours very memorable.
Because I love this story, and it's my ultimate favorite Thanksgiving tale, and because he's coming to my house for the first time tomorrow for dinner (I wont give him stemware.) here is a holiday bonus blog: http://queenie930.blogspot.com/2011/11/goblet-incident-of-76.html
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
When I make things like stuffing, or dressing if you prefer, I always think of my Mom. We only had her home made dressing (her word choice) once a year, at Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving Eve, after the dishes were washed and the children were otherwise occupied, Mom would head back to the kitchen, in her housecoat, and begin the dressing prep. Pretty soon the smell of celery and onion would come wafting into the other room. If you were sneaky enough (me) you could grab a piece of dried out, torn up white bread that was sitting on the kitchen table in her big brown bowl and dip it into the buttery, celery, onion, goodness........and burn your tongue for you efforts. Mom would be too busy cleaning out the turkey to notice.
By the time she finished there were usually two, if not three or four sets of eyes watching as she mixed the dressing and stuffed the turkey with it. I don't do that, it's supposed to be dangerous. However, for 20 plus years none of us ever got sick......... Then she wrapped him up and popped him back in the fridge til morning.
My stuffing recipe is very different from my Mom's. The only part of hers that I liked was the actual bread/onion/celery. The apples and giblets would be picked out and set aside. Mine has sausage and mushrooms, and it is da bomb! It is also done, so I have to go now!
My holiday memories are so precious to me, but I always look forward to making new ones. Times change, people come and go, old traditions are put aside, in favor of new ones. It's all good. It's life. As my mother used to say, "Life is what you make it." and with our holiday traditions she made ours very memorable.
Because I love this story, and it's my ultimate favorite Thanksgiving tale, and because he's coming to my house for the first time tomorrow for dinner (I wont give him stemware.) here is a holiday bonus blog: http://queenie930.blogspot.com/2011/11/goblet-incident-of-76.html
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
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