Quick Holiday Dressing Food

HOLIDAY DRESSING

Steps:

• Prepare corn bread as directed on package. Cool, and crumble.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook onions, bell pepper, and celery in butter until tender, but not brown. In another pan, cook sausage over medium-high heat until evenly browned.
• Place corn bread and bread slices in a food processor. Pulse until they turn into a crumbly mixture. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Season with sage, thyme, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Mix in chopped parsley, cooked vegetables, and sausage with drippings. Stir in eggs and chicken stock. This mixture should be a bit mushy. Transfer to a greased 9x13 inch pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour.

HOMEMADE DRESSING

Steps:

• Saute the onion and celery in the butter until tender. Add mushrooms if you would like!
• Combine all ingredients in a large bowl; mix well. I use a healthy sprinkling of poultry seasoning -- that is what makes it smell soooo good while cooking!
• Place into a 13x9x2 inch baking dish.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
• If dressing begins to look too dry, add more chicken stock. (While waiting on the turkey to finish, you might leave the dressing in the oven -- in this case, add more chicken stock!).

CROCK POT HOLIDAY DRESSING

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat and saute the onions, celery, mushrooms and the parsley until tender but not browned.
• In a large mixing bowl, spoon the sauteed vegetables over the bread cubes and then add all the spices and herbs into the mix. Stir.
• Mix the beaten eggs with the chicken stock and add this to the mix a little at a time as you stir carefully. You may not need every bit of the stock-egg blend so be careful to not turn your dressing into soup. You should still be able to discern the bread cubes but they should be fairly wet.
• Transfer the mix into your crock pot (a large one is best) and cover.
• Cook on High for an hour and then reduce to the Low setting and allow it to cook for four to eight more hours until it reaches the consistency that you like.
• If you don't have the Paul Prudhomme seasoning you can use seasoned salt or, better yet, poultry seasoning.

QUICK HOLIDAY DRESSING

Steps:

• In a large frying pan put the Italian sausage, and stir-fry over medium heat until browned, breaking up the sausage with a spoon as you cook it.
• When the sausage is well cooked, turn off the heat.
• Stir in the rice and mix well.
• Let cool for 10 minutes.
• Stir in the mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, and parsley.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Place the mixture in a greased casserole dish.
• Bake 350F for 30 minutes or until very hot.
• Serve at once.