On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
> wrote:

>
> Chances are the family won't even notice the stuffing is not meat based
> unless your family tradition includes oyster or sausage stuffing. I
> have made a sausage based stuffing and a chestnut based dressing when
> cooking for a big group back when I was single. I'd made a vegitarian
> dressing without any specific plan to have a vegitarian dish.
>
> Chestnuts, walnuts or other nuts. Celery. Onions and/or leeks.
> Assorted fresh herbs. Diced apples and/or pears. Cornbread or rice or
> some gluten based bread. Some egg and vegitable broth to move the
> texture partly towards a pudding. Maybe even some wine or sherry
> instead of the broth. Bake it in a caserole dish and set it aside like
> it's a spare to be used when the regular stuffing runs out, then point
> the daughter to it.

I never put shellfish or meat in my stuffing/dressing and am not fond
of the ones that have it. Not because I'm a vegetarian, but because
that's the way my mother did it and I bet her mother did it that way
too.
>
> You could even make a mushroom based vegitarian gravy as well. That's
> easy. Shrooms, butter, garlic, white wine and a bit or arrow root or
> corn starch. Easy peasy.

Isn't that the way "everyone" makes gravy... except you add it to the
pan drippings. Yum.


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