Apple and Sausage Stuffing

Take your favorite sausage, italian, chorizo, polish, chicken, whatever...

remove the casing and brown the meat in butter, making sure to chop fine with spatula... set aside.

Peel and core a few granny smith apples, chop fine, and brown in butter, brown sugar, cinnomon, nutmeg, and a dash of ground cloves.

Mix together sausage and apples. Add to your favorite stuffing. My family prefers Stove Top. The heathens.

Stuff the damn bird, makes the stuffing taste better. Bake the remaining stuffing in the oven, covered in foil to keep it from drying out.

And that's how you make my favorite stuffing.

Your turn.

-Phil

As an adventure, I'd like to try that deep-fried turkey. I imagine either the best thing I've ever eaten, or ;lsdkfvnwvowrin blauwehe.!!!! nasty.

no dude, fried turkey is great shit.

yes, i cant stress it enough people, put the stuffing in the turkey. it really pisses me off when people dont do it, since it makes the stuffing so much better. learn to cook people!!!

Ain't never celebrated T-giving, but I imagine this would work as a side:

SWEET N' SEXY POTATOES:

- thinly slice sweet potatoes - oil foil or parchment in baking dish - space-place potatoes along bottom of dish, piling staggered as necessary - garnish liberally with salt, pepper and dried rosemary! - drip a little more olive oil - bake in oven at 350-375 for 30-40 minutes or until slightly burnt and crispy - (it's sometimes good when they end up gooey) - (you can't lose)

Thank me later.

1 shot of vodka
1 shot of triple sec
1 shot of lime juice

Banzaiiiiiiiiiii

Wild Turkey Gobbler

Wild Turkey 1.5 oz. (45 ml)
Hot Apple Cider 5.5 oz. (165 ml)
Cinnamon Stick Garnish
Pour hot apple cider and wild Turkey into a mug and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Drink a shit load of red wine and fall asleep on the couch - perfect to avoid unpleasant conversations

I've made a thanksgiving dinner before, but it was done by myself and my roomate for a bears game for 10 other dudes. Not exactly required to be elegant.

but i'm accompanying the ladyfriend to this cooking class thing this saturday where we learn to make an entire Thanksgiving dinner then we get to eat it. and they give us wine.

If you weren't going with Dr. J, that would be incredibly gay.

As it stands, it's just sort of gay.

salmon fillet glazed in maple syrup with some ginger and garlic. broil.

Green Bean Casserole.
2 cans regular green beans (don't get no motherfuckin' highfalutin ass freedom cut green beans)
1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 Can Durkee Dried Onions

Mix in Casserole/Baking dish: Green Beans and Cream of Soup
Bake at 350 for, oh, 25-30 mins.
Top with Dried Onions

Simple, everyone's had it, but its a staple at the LooGAR household. (and when I go to one of them weird places that don't make it, I offer to bring something, and show up with this... Many times for actua Thanksgiving dinner I have a heaping helping of this and a gang of Turkey skin and not much else.

oh, i realize that. But I'm in it anyway.

I need to find the most colorful cardigan I can find for this thing. That, sir, will make it as gay as it can possibly be.

loogar's my kind of guy.

Except we don't have Durkee's up here, just French's French Fried Onions. Same people who make the mustard.

-Phil

goddamn

it's simple but it works, and it's pretty damned good. usually i just adhere to the single guy, combine two foods in a bowl and see how it turns out (tonight's feature, leftover wasabi mashed potatoes and a pouch of tuna fish. surprisingly not horrible) school of cooking, but this is the one thing that i'm allowed to make unsupervised by an adult.

Haha. Freedom cut. My mother has made this for every Thanksgiving/Xmas/Easter as long as I can remember. I always thought this was more of a Southern thing. Was I just mistaken, or has the green bean casserole been migrating?

On second thought, I don't have the recipe, but I would kill for my great aunt's cheese grits and my grandmother's homemade rolls and biscuits.

yeah it sounds fucking awesome

i'd like to stuff the turkey with people who call thanksgiving "turkey day". just a little something that grates my nerves, am i weird?

i really hate the stuffing my mom makes. she just tears up white bread and puts it in the turkey and it comes out all soggy and shit. nasty.

the past few thanksgivings i've really gotten into green bean cassarole.

Not quite... but its a good start.

Glad I don't have to watch you stuff the bird.

That'd be an awfully big turkey day bird you'd have to get just to stuff little old me into.

You're not that wierd. But don't fool yourself into thinking you're incredibly normal either.

Cheese grits, while not a Thanksgiving thing, per se, do kick MAJOR ass.

Phil, Im ay have been mistaken on the brand, but we're in the same territory.

The best thing about this, too, is that I usually take care of making it, and then it looks like I helped cook. And then when anyone bitches I say "i made the green bean casserole, what the fuck have you done?"

As you can probably see holidays can get testy around my family.

Green Bean Casserole is everywhere. EVERYWHERE. And it's the shit. You know if you microwave those french fried onions for a minute, they crisp up, and stay crispier on the top of the casserole? Try it.

Yeah, holidays make families testy. I get to say, I made everything so shut the fuck up. Not really, usually by the point dinner is on the table, everyone is pretty damn happy.

Oh, and in the apple sausage stuffing, my favorite is mild italian sausage.

And i'll have to try Ish's sweet potatoes. The way I do sweet potatoes goes like this.

Boil some sweet potatoes (6-8 good sized healthy ones), peel and mash with a stick of melted butter, a cup of packed brown sugar, 2 oz. of orange juice concentrate, cinnamon, nutmeg, tiny bit of cloves, blend in chopped pecans, maybe 2 cups, and bake 30 minutes at 325. Cover with marshmallows, or marshmallow fluff, and broil with a watchful eye, maybe 30-45 seconds. If you set the marshmallows on fire, scrape them off and try again. Have extra marshmallows on hand.

Enjoy.