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The stuffing for Orange Glazed Turkey with Cornbread Stuffing
corn bread stuffing for about an 18 lb turkey
Recipe for cornbread
2 1/4 cups corn meal
2 1/4 cups white flour
1\2 cup sugar, more or less to taste
2 1/4 tablespoons baking powder
2 1/4 teaspoons salt
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1/2 cup or more oil
2 1/4 cup milk
2 1/2 eggs beaten
Recipe multiplied from original Indian Head yellow corn meal
Mix dry ingredients
Mix wet ingredients
Combine both mixing with a spoon
Adjust flour and liquids if too thick or thin
Pour onto a parchment papered sheet pan
Bake about 425 degrees 20 or so minutes
Run under broiler if necessary to brown top.
Cool, then with a pizza cutter, cut into cubes.
taste test
Let dry , store in container till needed.
now that the cornbread is done,
2 lbs sausage
about 4 cups each celery, onion, diced
2 tablespoons diced garlic
oil, for sauteing, about 2 tablespoons
thyme, sage, etc, or Bells seasonings to taste
12 cups cornbread prepared stuffing mix, (or cornbread from above)
2 -3 granny smith apples , cored, peeled and diced
1 cup each dried apricots,and dried cherries (I used diced dried dates)
salt and pepper to taste
1 to 2 cups chicken broth
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brown the sausage , breaking them up, 10 to 12 minutes. remove to large bowl
wilt the onions, celery and garlic with the oil over low heat , sprinkle with the thyme and sage.
add to the sausage
(the green glob is the celery onion mixture I prepared a day before and placed in a rectangular container)
toss in the cornbread cubes along with fruit
season with the salt and pepper
drizzle in the broth, to desired consistency
toss well
the only shortcut in this recipe was that I used a rotary slicer to chop the onions and celery instead of by hand
Baby spinach, eggs, grated Romano , salt pepper.
On a spent grain flatbread.
Mexican coffee
One of the components for Orange Glazed Turkey with Corn Bread Stuffing.
Utilizes Orange Maralade
This is how it looked after baking…..about 5 hours, stepped temp from 325 to 350.
Apply the glaze last 30 minutes of cooking.
NOTE : Highly advised to use a meat thermometer (not shown here), if you glaze the bird the manufacturers supplied POP UP thermometer, gets glued stuck by the glaze, and will not correctly indicate. Once the bird was out of the oven, and I cleaned the pop up, it popped up.
The bird was a tad overdone to my taste. but none the less fully cooked for a stuffed bird.
I’ll be posting more of the recipe in another post. It will cover the cooking technique for the recipe.
Addendum:
looking over the photos, No I didn’t strain it, orange zest and all was used.
made by Diane S. Metro
2 cups all bran cereal (Kellogg’s)
1 and 1/2 cups sweetened dried cranberries (Craisins)
12 oz white chocolate melting disks , or white chocolate chips
1 cup white chocolate chips
combine cereal and cranberries in a bowl.
in another bowl melt the disks, or chips
pour over the cereal mixture and stir until well combined
stir in white chocolate chips
working quickly form into well packed tablespoon sized balls
place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and refrigerate until set.
last minute Christmas food shopping, having dinner at home for Christmas with guests.
Something like chicken and noodles or pasta was in my mind to cook, with gravy, so…….
The chicken cutlets were used to make a lasagne with them.
I’m pretty much at a loss as to what to do with chicken breast.
I would rather have thighs and legs, but a good cook will make the best of what he/she has available.
Usually most packaged chicken breast now a days are very large and thick.
These I sliced horizontally to thin pieces rather than pound them.
I was able to get up to three fillets from a single breast.
Flour mixed with salt and pepper and spent grains was used to coat the breast and then fried in a small amount of oil as necessary.
Place on a paper towel ready for assembly.
Chopped brocolli, grated cheese, a combo of parmigiana and Romano was used.
Not shown was gravy that I made from the drippings in the fry pan that was used to fry the chicken.
The pre-fab lasagne noodles were on the shelve, I was going to make fresh pasta wide noodles but these would speed up the process.
They remind me of the corrugated fiberglass panels that you get (or used to get) from the home supply center.
They are thin gauge and don’t require cooking.
basically layered chicken, broccoli and cheese, both with gravy added between the noodles.
Three noodle panels per layer fit in the dish
The instructions call for covering the dish with foil and bake at about 350-375 degrees then uncovering the dish and continue baking.
Water was added to the pan because the dish was dry and returned to bake again.
The next time I would used regular lasagne noodles or make my own, the noodles used here are very thin.
Lasagne is always good leftover and provided several meals.
All n’ all, a good use for chicken breast.
Other possibilities would be cubing the breast and combining with elbow macaroni and the broccoli and cheese with gravy and bake in a casserole.
bread mixture with spent grain for breading shrimp.
Grate some hard cheese, Romano or Parmesan.
Add bread cut to fit in processor, spent grain, (or just spent grain bread) salt and pepper too taste.
Process to mix.
Drizzle in melted butter till crumbs are moistened enough to be formed.
Clean and prep shrimp as needed. Leave tails intact.
Scoop stuffing in hand and form around shrimp leaving tails protruding.
place in pan, some where baked without stuffing.
bake in a hot oven 450 degrees , shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes or so….,
not the greatest looking presentation, but very tasty.
served with a lager, a Two Point Five Lager I brewed.
usually I start the working day with a light breakfast, as I’m not a morning person and on non work days, a slower more relaxed start and more time spent on making that first sustenance. More than not, coffee with toast or some other type of grain product and fruit whenever possible.
This morning oranges were available and 2 medium oranges were processed for juice with couple of green grapes thrown in for good measure.
Using the kitchen aid attachment on slow speed, cut the oranges into wedges and slowly feed into machine. I cut 1/8 wedges of orange in half to avoid overloading machine. That’s skin and all. The juice is a bit on the tart side if your used to sweetened juice. Coffee with a bit of simple sugar and cream and thick sliced spent grain toast served along side your fav social networking platform(s).
coffee is a recent purchase from the coffee project, they offer the “two random bundle” , that is you receive two pounds of green coffee beans of their choice. this is Kenya AA Tambaya, Neri. (current pricing is $7.00/lb USD, plus shipping)
In my opinion, a reasonable cost for a single origin coffee.
Bean roasting is done with a hot air (popcorn) popper. re-searchable on the net.
posting this without the intent of advertising any products or services, just cataloging the process for archiving and sharing.
A leisurely start, some chores to do today and cooking.
Jumping ahead here , still have items to post from thanksgiving but here are some pictures from an open house kitchen tour yesterday.
It’s not often that you have the opportunity to visit a kitchen of a restaurant, let alone a candy making shop.
Open house and self guided tour at Sweenor’s Chocolates, Wakefield, Rhode Island.
more text later , for now some pictures taken of the kitchen area and assembly line. S W E E T !
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