I hope that you had a wonderful holiday meal as we did. Our day was spent watching movies, playing and just having fun spending time together. I didn't go crazy over our meal this year but made some favorites and excluded some. I can't believe the amount of food that is normal for our holiday meal blended from my husband's family and my own. Thing we thought we had to have but this year we cut it back and I am glad the work was less but the meal still great.
We had bought a 20 pound turkey for the day and for the six of us. Now I know that's a huge bird but we have plans to make it last. We are already on day two of it and it's not even half way gone. And I hot this turkey at a great deal. I was .79 a pound but I had a coupon from this store for a free turkey up to 12 pounds or the credit for a 12 turkey off you bill so in the end my turkey cost me 6.92ish for the whole bird. And honest I am sure I did the whole meal for about $20 with enough for two days of meals and more with the turkey.
But by far my favorite thing to make was my stuffing. I make my own bread with all the spices and herbs in it so it tastes like stuffing. I will be making more tomorrow for sandwiches with the left over turkey. I am telling you this is a great way to have thanksgiving later in the year when you want that taste. So I thought I would share my recipe with you.
Ingredients
4 cups flour (1 cup whole wheat, 3 cups ap is what I used)
2 packets of yeast
1 tsp fine sea salt
1 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning
1 tbsp sage (we love this flavor in our stuffing please add as much or as little as you like)
1 1/2 tsp rosemary
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups warm to hot water (start with 1 1/4 and add more should you need it depends on a lot of factors with your flour and who dry your home is if you need more than the 1 1/2 add it slowly with buy one tbsp at a time)
1 tsp sugar
The herbs used are what I use in my stuffing so use what you like it doesn't have to be the same as mine. And please share if you change it up and what you used.
Add Salt to the bowl
Add your spices, herbs, and seasonings to the salt
Add your flour and make a well
Add your sugar and cover with yeast
Add water next
Cover with plastic wrap and let the yeast do it's happy dance.
About five minutes later it's happy time to mix
Knead until it's smooth
Place in an oiled bowl and oil the dough ball.
Recover with the plastic wrap you used earlier and let rise until doubled in size. Punch down and form into your loaf (what ever style you like) bake about 20 minutes at 425 until golden brown on top. I top it with melted butter when it comes out.
Mmm....yummy bread. I don't think you can see the herbs and everything but it's there and it smells like stuffing.
To use in stuffing I just cut it up into cubes and then make your stuffing as normal. I made mine with apples, sage, my bread, sage sausage (we like sage this time of year LOL) carrots, celery, onions and turkey stock. Salt and pepper as needed. It's about one third bread, one third veggies and apple, and one third meat (this is really under about one third)
Apples, celery, carrots, onion Cook them in evoo and butter with salt and pepper and other seasonings. I like a bite to our carrots so I don't cook them down like the celery and the onion, the apples I leave with a bit of bite too.
Sage sausage browning in the same pan I cooked me veggies in.
Once the sausage is cooked I add back the veggies and apple.
Then I add them to the bread crumbs which after cubing I baked at 325 for about 20 minutes. or until dry.
Add turkey stock that I made last month
Mix add more stock if needed.
Added to your turkey (if you stuff) or to a baking pan and cover bake at 350 for about 30 minutes, remove foil and bake another 5-10 minutes for a crunchy top. (the pic above was taken before I added more stock but we like our stuffing not as wet as many out there so add what you need and want to get it how you like it)
My plate of food it was too much but worth it. LOL
So who was your Thanksgiving? Did you try anything new? And if you try my stuffing bread please let me know and give me feedback and don't be afraid to ask any questions should you need them I am not in the habit of writing recipes so if I made a mistake please point it out. And now the last questions....Did you go shopping today? What is the deal you were seeking out?
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