Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'stuffing'
A Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
In case you haven't noticed, food blogs, food magazines, food networks and the like love Thanksgiving. They love it because, for once, the nation is intent on cooking dinner. For 364 days out of the year, that's mostly not the case--what with fast food and frozen dinners and all the other instant options at our fingertips. But Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is something you've gotta cook. That is, unless you're me....
Improvised Stuffing
The plan was to roast a chicken the way I normally roast chicken (which is to say, the best way in the world!) on a cold winter's night in November. And then, flipping through the channels, I stopped on the Food Network (surprise, surprise) and there was Rachael Ray making a stuffing. Normally, I wouldn't care to watch Rachael Ray make a stuffing but there she was chopping apples and onions and celery and I thought to myself: "I have apples and onions and celery." Then she tore up pumpkin muffins and added the vegetable mixture and put it in a pan with some chicken stock and baked it. I thought: "I don't have pumpkin muffins, but I do have bread and a pan." So I decided to improvise some stuffing to go with the chicken....
