I just poured cornbread batter into my cast iron skillet so it will be ready when I make dressing tomorrow. Yeah, I am a regular ole Paula Dean. Granted I don't make my dressing exactly like Paula, but I may give her recipe a try.
Anyway, as I was preparing the cornbread I was reminded of one of my first Thanksgiving dinners with Rourk's family and I couldn't help but smile about it. In my family a Thanksgiving dinner would not be considered complete without cornbread dressing. I don't recall a single time having stuffing. Sure, we'd stuff the turkey sometimes, but we always stuffed it with cornbread dressing. Imagine my surprise when I sat down to dinner with Rourk's family and his mom brought a pan of stuffing to the table and if my memory serves me right it was a pan of oyster stuffing. I am not saying there is anything wrong with serving oyster stuffing at Thanksgiving; I understand from my Google search that this is also a classic Thanksgiving side dish just not one I was familiar with before that meal.
So....
I am curious, do you serve cornbread dressing or stuffing at your house on Thanksgiving?
7 comments:
John's family serves cornbread dressing. Their recipe even has hard-boiled eggs in it. It's delicious.
My family serves stuffing. Sometimes we get adventuresome and add things, like oysters, but not often. Usually we eat regular, old stuffing.
I think it's a Mason-Dixon line thing. Northerners serves stuffing, and Southerners serve dressing. Mostly.
Stuffing on all sides on our family! But I love cornbread. Never heard of it for Thanksgiving!
Dressing all around...love it with tons of sage!
Kelly
Dressing...it definitely a southern thing!
Definitely a southern thing- deep south. I'll never forget the first Thanksgiving dinner I did with George's family in Virginia and his mom handed me a bag of pepperidge farm stuffing and asked me to make it- I added about 3 times too much water and George and I had to go out and find an open grocery store so we could buy some more. Disaster! My family always took the 3 hours to make cornbread and white bread mixed dressing with lots and lots of poultry seasoning.
We just gorged ourselves this weekend on my great aunt's oyster stuffing. Mmmmm. That's usually what we make at our house, and my dad's side of the family (from VA and FL) does too. Mom's side (SC all the way!) does dressing. Funny...I'd never thought about it!
Dressing! I'll never make it as good as my MIL does though.
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