This is the BEST Stuffing Recipe

You know how you hear about people taking recipes to their grave? My husband’s grandma seriously did that with her Thanksgiving bread stuffing.

It was the best turkey stuffing in the whole wide world, and I consider myself a stuffing aficionado. It had a simple, comforting flavor and was toasted to perfection.

Try as we might, we never got Mary Ellen to give up the recipe for her turkey stuffing. The only detail she ever gave us was “well, I just soak the bread in milk, really.”

So, ever since Mary Ellen passed, it’s been my mission to try to recreate this recipe. Using some flavor memories based on what Jeff and I can recall about Grandma’s stuffing, I first published my best educated guess of how this stuffing was created back in 2014.

Using reader comments and e-mails ever since, I’ve made revisions to the recipe to keep getting it closer and closer to the original.

The recipe card below reflects nine years of work, and at least a dozen tests. At this point, I think I’m a close as I can get to honoring the flavors of Mary Ellen’s stuffing.

The recipe in the card below will yield you a delicious old fashioned bread stuffing to serve alongside your Thanksgiving turkey, I guarantee it.

“I ran across your Grandma Mary Ellen’s stuffing recipe last year and what a hit it was!! Thank you!! I too have been searching for a recipe similar to my Grandmother’s and your recipe is spot on!”

—Mary

What is stuffing?

Stuffing, also known as dressing, is a quintessential part of holiday feasts, specially where turkey is served. It’s a mixture of cubed bread, vegetables, and seasonings, and it produces a very comforting blend of flavors and textures.

Technically, it’s called “stuffing” when it gets stuffed into the bird, and “dressing” when its cooked in a separate baking dish.

But, since you tend to have to overcook the turkey to make sure the stuffing reaches a safe temperature, we just cook ours in a baking dish, but we’ve always still called it stuffing.

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How do you like to enjoy your Thanksgiving recipe leftovers? On the Friday after Thanksgiving, I like to warm up a plate of the full turkey dinner and eat it as-is.

But after that, I’m ready to repurpose the leftovers into something else, like mashed potatoes becoming mashed potato cakes topped with my easy gravy recipe, and some of the turkey becoming turkey and ham sliders.

The Michigan-Ohio State football game always seems to fall on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So, serving a big pot of chili on that day works out really well for my family. I’ve already served my apple cider chili earlier this fall.

So, what could be more perfect for a football game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving than Leftover Turkey Chili?

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I know in Monday’s post, I sort of lamented about how small my Thanksgiving gathering is, thus, not allowing me to make a HUGE Thanksgiving recipes list with a million different dishes. I shouldn’t complain at all, because the way things are means it’s simple and relatively easy to prepare the meal.

I’ve heard from several of you in the past few days, and it turns out, small family groups similar to my own are very common for Thanksgiving. Not everybody is cooking for 30!

And while I DO have a recipe for a whole roasted turkey being published next Monday (and a corresponding leftover turkey chili recipe), I wanted to share a turkey recipe fit for a smaller gathering today.

This Blue Cheese & Apple Turkey Breast Roulade provides about five pounds of turkey, making it just the right size for my family of six. If you had a slightly larger (but still pretty small) guest list, you could serve this roulade plus a few roasted turkey drumsticks.

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