No Stress Thanksgiving: Easy Crockpot Recipes & Leftover Hacks!
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I love how you throw in alternatives for things. This is why you’re one of my favorite YTers 🎉❤
I’m a 5th generation south Floridian-we call it stuffing. You stuff the turkey with it. Not my favorite but that’s how it’s been done in our family.
Dressing is made with cooked cornbread and eggs and onions and broth and sage and is sooóoo much better than just stuffing imo.oh and dotted with butter and sprinkled with black pepper….mix bake and drench with homemade giblet gravy with boiled eggs added… A southern tradition…also my mom always added evaporated milk at the end of cooking her chicken or turkey and noodles .it just gave it a richer taste
yummie thanx for sharing , cant figure out what that 1 word is plz share , have a great day
I don’t think I’ve made anything for Thanksgiving in the slow cooker 🤔 But I might try the stuffing in there this year, after seeing you do it! I do make what I can ahead of time, like the cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes (day before), pies, etc.
Stuffing is "stuffed" in the bird. Dressing is "dressed" on the sides. Hope that helps.
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There is no shame in stuffing from a box! We like to add onions, celery and sausage. No shame at all!
My family is all about the DRESSING at Thanksgiving. My sister Brenda makes it every year and it is to die for. All the other stuff is just icing on the cake. Before Brenda made it it was my Grandma. So my sister has taken on that task for many years. I will be making a Ham, home canned sweet carrots, Rhodes rolls and a made from scratch pecan pie. Never done that before but I am looking forward to being with my family. We might as well be across the street as I live in Broken Arrow. Grew up in Collinsville where my sister still lives on the old homestead. So good to see you this evening. Bev
Stuffing or dressing- depends on which part of the country you live!
Hi Mindy! Your question about stuffing vs. dressing…here's two ways I was told is the deciding factor…1) stuffing is when it's served beside the turkey and dressing is when it's served inside the turkey and 2) the words stuffing and dressing are used regionally, stuffing being northern, dressing being used more in the south. As to how accurate that statement is, I have no idea, lol, but speaking anecdotally, I'm from the south originally and grew up calling it dressing, too.
Looks like 1 T OIL
The first recipe to me it looks like 1 T of corns – cornstarch maybe?
My mum also has typed out recipe cards. ❤
I’m from California originally and we called it stuffing.,but I have heard of it is stuffed in bird(no longer safe I think) it is stuffing. On side is dressing. And I always make mashed potatoes in ip. And I am going to try your turkey, but in af
I make butter beans in my slow cooker on Thanksgiving. It's my grandma's recipe and my family will riot if I don't make it! It's basically dried lima beans, a couple sticks of butter, salt and water and it cooks all day until its thick and buttery. Yum!
We always called it “dressing” and my mom used to put oysters in it! 😕 Wasn’t a fan! What you made in the crockpot looked good. I’m going to try it that way. I think the card says “wine.” A tablespoon of red maybe??
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Olives?
Stuffing goes in the bird. Dressing is made on the side.
Vegan Stuffing recipe:
2 oz. Arnold Stuffing mix (Read ingredients to ensure vegan as some include chicken broth.)
1 flax egg (Combine 1 T ground flax with 3 T water, and let sit to become gooey)
3 T vegan butter
1 onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
garlic, minced
Bell's seasoning or dried sage, thyme, rosemary, seasoned salt, and ground black pepper
nutritional yeast
2 c water, heated and combined with 1 t no chicken base
Oil or vegan butter a 9” square casserole dish.
Add stuffing to large bowl. Add dried spices and nutritional yeast.
Saute onion and celery in vegan butter until celery is soft. Add garlic and saute a bit longer. Add this mixture to the stuffing and stir to combine.
Add broth slowly while stirring.
Add flax egg and stir again.
Put stuffing in casserole dish.
Bake uncovered at 350oF for 30 min.
Who doesn't like turkey? Crazy people, that's who! Big turkey fans in my family. In summer, my mom used to cook it in a roasting pan in the closed bbq so the oven wouldn' warm up the house. Turkey, mashed potatoes and peas while wearing our bathing suits.
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I honestly didn’t know what (cornbread) dressing was until I met my husband. I’m a Cajun girl and we only had rice dressing (some people call it dirty rice) for holiday meals. Happy to report, my rice dressing is always proudly served with my husbands’ family holiday get togethers and my nieces and nephews say it’s not a holiday meal without Aunt Dawnie’s rice dressing 😊.
Oh man. Im the mom with the recipe box now. My daughter calls asking for recipes.
I recently had a card written for French Bread pizza that got wet. My daughter made notes with pencil on it and all the ink acted like marker and disappered just the pencil stayed behind.
So we need to rewrite our French Bread pizza recipe.( which is even better using on sale garlic bread. 😉
Hi Mindy! Love all your recipes. They all look delicious. I call it dressing and it’s always made with cornbread. Family recipe calls for boiled eggs, green onion sautéed in butter, and broth of course. I always do make it in my crockpot. So much easier and frees up my oven. Thanks for sharing… I’m going to try to watch all the videos from your collab. I know they’ll all be great!
I absolutely LOVE old recipe books and recipe cards. I used to look at my grandma’s church cook books from the 40’s and 50’s and I thought they were the nearest thing. It would be awesome if you did a day in life from a certain decade… for example, make all the meals you’d eat in a day based on a certain decade cookbook, like 50’s or 70’s. 😊
I was always taught stuffing and dressing are the same thing. The difference is in how it is prepared. If you cook it inside the turkey it is stuffing because you stuffed the turkey.
The unknown word is defInately wine! I can totally see it😊
I'm always stoked when Mindy gives us a mini concert in a video. 😄
Where I grew up it was stuffing. I think where we moved to a year ago they call it dressing.
From Sharon, I have lots of recipes from my Mom, that were typed. I used to also type my own. Lol
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Such yummy recipes 😋❤️
We make both stuffing and dressing. Stuffing for us is the typical recipe, dressing is wetter and put into casserole dish and baked until set like a cake would be. I used dried, toasted bread, chicken, onions, celery, soup, seasonings. It’s a family recipe that my cousin used to make. Now I’m the dressing “chef” and make many pans by request. It’s become tradition and we love to cook together. My daughter has started cooking with my dad on holidays. Making memories.
Stuffing is when it is cooked inside the turkey, and dressing when cooked outside the turkey.
I always use the crock pot for my dressing, down here in Alabama, it's Dressin and it's made with cornbread. The crock pot does a great job of keeping it moist. I am getting lots of Thanksgiving crock pot inspiration from YouTube this year so who knows I may try some other crock pot recipes! Also I just have to say that cake looks amazing! That just may wind up on our Thanksgiving buffet!
When I was a kid, my mom had this sweet treat recipe that I LOVED. She's since gone into nursing care and her memory isn't the best anymore. I thought i'd never find the recipe again. I would periodically google all the ingredients I remembered (mini m&ms were the kicker for me) but I couldn't ever find it. One day I was complaining to someone about how I couldn't find it and she offered to look for it for me. I thought, i'm going to give it a go one more time. I remembered that it wasn't m&m minis — rather, it was BAKING m&ms! So I tried searching for that and I FOUND IT! This sweet lady, Sue, has been keeping a repository of her family's favorite recipes and she'd posted the recipe years and years ago (1996!!!!!). Anyway, I emailed her to thank her for keeping it online for me to find. We chatted a few times and it just made my soul so happy.
Here's the recipe if you might want to try it!
Giant Pizzazz M&M Cookie
2 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 c (2 sticks) butter or margarine
1/2 c firmly packed light brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 c caramel ice cream topping
1 c M&Ms(r) semi-sweet or milk chocolate baking bits
3/4 c shredded coconut
1/2 c dry roasted peanuts
Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
In a bowl, combine flour and baking soda; set aside. Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla and fluffy; add flour mixture just until blended. Dough will be crumbly. Pat dough evenly into greased 12" round pizza pan (a 13 X 9" pan can be substituted). Prick crust with a fork. Bake 15-16 min or until firm.
Spread warm crust evenly with caramel topping. Combine M&Ms(r) Chocolate Baking Bits, coconut, and nuts. Sprinkle mixture evenly over caramel topping; pat down lightly. Continue to bake an additional 5 min or just until coconut begins to turn golden.
Cool completely before cutting into wedges. Store in tightly covered container. Makes 16 wedges.
*I found that it works great to halve the topping ingredients and cook the crust in a fluted tart pan with removal bottom. My Mom used to make it in those big disposal tins for giant cookies but I think this works better with the thicker crust.
Looking into your mothers recipe box looks like mine🤩the cards with the same pictures and some recipes over 75/80. Years old that were my mothers, yes and there are a lot of typed ones but my favorites are the ones with her handwriting, so has been in heaven for 48 years.
I think the smudged word is corn – isn’t that usually in chowder ? Everything looks so delicious ! Thank you Mindy for the great ideas !!
I’m never buy a turkey just the breast and always do it in the crockpot. The meat is moist and juicy.
If you stuff it up the turkey's butt and cook it, it's stuffing. If you bake it in a casserole dish, it's dressing. Either way, I don't like it and never have. Give me all the other side dishes!
Your hands and nails look SO pretty! Good job, taking care of you!
I am making creamed spinach. Definitely gonna have to try the cake. Love your channel
Love both of the channels.
Maria sent me!😊
When we were growing up, we were always told if you cook it in the turkey and stuffing and if you cook it on the side it’s dressing