StoveTop Stuffing, Disgusting
Mark Bernstein describes a fabulous sounding Thanksgiving meal. Grilled turkey, sweet potatoes, and chocolate pecan pie. All good stuff, especially the gravy recipe. But toward the end of his list of dishes there’s a hideous beast: StoveTop Stuffing. Seriously gross.
Why go to all that effort to use cheap, nasty croutons? Croutons are so easy, and you can do the seasoning 100% to taste with homemade croutons. I’ll never understand some people . . .
Update: You’ll notice in the comments that Mark has corrected me. He meant dressing made in a skillet on a stovetop, not the horrible packaged dressing. Sorry about that.
Oops! I didn’t mean StoveTop Brand (r) stuffing! I meant, “stuffing that’s made with stock and cooked in a skillet, rather than baked inside the turkey.”
A grilled turkey may not be hot enough when done to properly cook the interior stuffing, especially if it’s raining or snowing outside. So you can’t fill the cavity with breading, as you might in an oven.
Instead, take your wonderful bread crumbs, some onion, celery, spices, and a couple of cups of really good stock, and you’re on your way.
Mark Bernstein
November 26, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Everything else sounded so good, I hit ’stovetop’ and started to gag. . . good to know it was an unecessary response. I’ve never heard of actually making stuffing on a stove top! I should have thought of that. Thanks for clearing that up.
Grant
November 26, 2007 at 8:37 pm