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DAY FOUR QUESTION

What is your favorite Holiday recipe?

Describe your Holiday table.

What is your biggest Holiday cooking disaster?

Here we go!  My favorite recipe?  How can I narrow it down to just one?  The holidays are a great time of year to overindulgence and I never disappoint!  I guess if I had to choose just one recipe; something that I could not live without it would be my husband’s family’s stuffing/dressing recipe.  My husband makes it for Thanksgiving and Christmas and it blows away the stuffing my family always made from the Stove Top Stuffing box.  They make it from the recipe found on the back of the Pepperidge Farm Cornbread Stuffing Bag.  It is so good!!  Check out this amazing stuffing recipe here.  My husband and his family add sage to the recipe and over the top too.  They swear that there cannot be enough sage.  No measuring at all!  I am posting the recipe here too:

Moist & Savory Stuffing

Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 30 minutes

Serves: 11

Four ingredients mix together quickly to make this mouthwatering baked stuffing – it’s so easy and so tasty, it’s sure to become one of your trademark recipes.

ingredients

2 1/2 cups Swanson® Chicken Broth (Regular, Natural Goodness™ or Certified Organic)
2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 large onion, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 pkg. (16 ounces) Pepperidge Farm® Herb Seasoned Stuffing

directions

Heat the broth, celery and onion in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Add the stuffing and mix lightly.

Spoon the stuffing mixture into a greased 3-quart casserole dish.  Cover and bake at 350°F. for 30 minutes or until hot.

Tip: For crunchier stuffing, bake the casserole uncovered.

Our holiday table consists of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, roasted asparagus, stuffing, cranberry, squash and turnip (my mother insists), gravy, garlic butter and dinner rolls.  We have cider, cranberry juice and eggnog to drink.

I have two holiday cooking disasters.  One impacted my mother and the other impacted my mother-in-law.  They are similar too, so you think I would learn.

One year I did all of the shopping the night before Thanksgiving.  I came home and put all of the food away.  My mother lives in an in-law addition in our house so the next morning she came over and was ready to get the turkey to begin cooking.  It was about 6:00 in the morning and she started calling to me.  I came downstairs and she was frantically telling me that she could not find the turkey anywhere.  Then it hit me.   Oh no.  I had put the turkey in the freezer in the garage.  My mother and I had to fill large plastic bins full of water to try to defrost the turkey that day.  Luckily my mother is a miracle maker under those kind of conditions so she pulled it off and the turkey tasted just the same as any other year.  Disaster averted.

The VERY next year I made a similar mistake.  My mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law are all vegetarians.  They take being vegetarians very seriously.  They are not the kind of vegetarians that will tolerate meat being laid on their plate or picking meat (acidentally placed) off of the food they are eating and eat it anyway.  Every year my mother-in-law gets a special vegetarian “turkey” roll.  It is shaped like cylinder of deli meat and you slice it the same way.  You cannot just walk into your local grocery store and buy this one either.  It takes a little prep work on your part.  I was so happy with myself when I made the trip up to the store that carries this turkey roll.  The store is one hour away form my house making it a two hour round trip ride.  So, I get home and place the turkey roll in the FREEZER.  I told my husband to take it to my mother-in-law the next time he went.  My husband never took it to her.  It was a few days before Thanksgiving so I knew I had time to get it to her.  The next time I ever thought of the turkey roll was when my mother-in-law was on her way over.  On Thanksgiving Day.  So, out with the bucket of water and up with the prayers hoping that my husband’s family would have something to eat on Thansgiving.  Let’s just say I felt more than stupid for committing the same Thanksgiving crime two years in a row.  I wonder if anyone will let me shop and prep again this year?