I'm pretty sure you all have this recipe somewhere because I think I've repeated it a hundred times! Well...maybe less than that. This is my mother's recipe for stuffing which is her mother's recipe for stuffing and I don't know how far back it goes, but it is a family thing that I missed my first year away from home for Thanksgiving when I was in college. Funny, I never ate it growing up but when it wasn't available, I craved it and now it is my own family's favorite. There aren't any specific amounts for the recipe so what I have done is looked at what I do and then I came up with the amounts I used. If you are only cooking for two you will have plenty of leftovers. I use the word "plenty" with a little caution: there never seems to be enough.
Ingredients:
1 loaf of cheap bread, cubed (I use the store brand butter top.)
1 head of celery, chopped (I mean the whole thing that you buy, leafy greens and all except the bottom.)
3 medium onions, chopped
2 sticks of butter (1 C)
mashed potatoes (I use 4 medium size potatoes to make the mashed potatoes: quarter and boil the potatoes; mash, add butter, salt and pepper to taste and about 1/4 C milk.)
1 egg
1 T milk
1 T Flour
Use a large pan! Saute the vegetables in the butter until the onion is clear. Add the bread a little at a time (it helps to fit it in the pan). Fry it up until the bread is cooked (but, of course, not burnt!) Mix the egg, milk and flour together and add to the stuffing in the pan. Stir until cooked. Mix with the mashed potatoes. Stuff your turkey and and enjoy!
