Posted by on Nov 24, 2017 | 11 comments

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You put WHAT in the stuffing cornbread?

Well, that’s that.  Thanksgiving is actually a favourite of mama’s, even more than Christmas or any other holiday except Valentine’s, which she LOVES.

Appropriate.  (Hint: married on Feb 14)

But this Thanksgiving, we had no turkey-takers because the little anthro-kids here in Italy are in school and their parents work all day and into the evening, so mama and papa and I shared the tiniest chicken you’ve ever seen!  Here’s the really funny thing (cooks will appreciate this, mama says): mama made some cornbread a few weeks ago and had some leftovers so froze them for stuffing.  Out it came yesterday and got mixed with sage, onions, celery, garlic, crushed almonds, chicken broth and a couple of eggs stirred in with melted butter just before stuffing that pathetic little bird.

Guess what?  That cornbread was made for a friend coming to talk about blogging and mama made it sort of sweet, like a corn cake, to go with coffee, and boy, howdy, if you have never had that kind of corn bread stuffing, you haven’t lived.  “Sort of,” mama says.

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Hey, looks normal, no?

When she tasted the first bite, she almost fell off her chair!  “Hey, always something new from mistakes, right, Loulou,” mama asked and of course I had to agree.  But sweet stuffing? Holy tamale, mama and papa both couldn’t stop laughing.

I think she put a little more salt in it and some chicken broth before baking the extra in a casserole, whatever that is.

I wish I’d had a photo of papa’s face when he had his first forkful!

Next year, mama says, she’ll stick with her good old-fashioned cornbread recipe with real corn in it and to heck with innovation!!!

I actually sort of liked it with a little butter on the bite I had before the stuffing was made.  Imagining it inside a turkey or chicken was beyond me but the chicky didn’t seem to mind, haha.

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BUT I MIND. No more stuffing for me, okay!  I can wait another year…