Friday Five

Five dishes to serve at your vegetarian Thanksgiving feast:

  1. Corn Bread Dressing
  2. Arugula and Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
  3. Acorn squash stuffed with fruit and nuts
  4. Cranberry Sauce
  5. Sweet Potato Pie

Barbara's Corn Bread Dressing

This recipe is based on Barbara's instructions. She usually just wings it, measuring nothing, navigating by sight, smell, and feel.

Ingredients:

  1. Corn bread (8x8 baking pan), prepared and cooled
  2. 1 Tbsp olive oil
  3. 1 large onion, chopped
  4. 2 celery stalks, chopped
  5. 1-2 Tbsp mayonnaise
  6. 1 tsp poultry seasoning or to taste
  7. 1 cup vegetable stock (more if needed)
  8. 1 egg
  9. Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Sautee onion and celery in olive oil (or any vegetable oil) until softened, about five minutes.

Crumble corn bread into a large mixing bowl. Add onion and celery, mayo, poultry seasoning, veggie stock, egg, salt, and pepper. Mix thoroughly with your hand (or a wooden spoon if squeamish). Mixture should be very moist, but not soupy.

Transfer mixture to baking pan that is large enough to hold it with some space at the top. Smooth and flatten the surface of the mixture. Bake at 350°F for about an hour. Serve hot.

Barbara says, if it's too moist after baking, just kind of crumble and mix it around with a spoon, and put it back in the oven for a while.

That's good eats.

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:23

Comments: 3

Reader Comments

Fri Nov 17 15:08:38 2006, by Mr. T:

That sounds tasty. I was wondering why one wouldn't use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock, but then I realized you must be vegetarians. Doh! By the way, if I recall, you posted on the lincolnite blog sometime ago, and inferred you were interested in the PS3. Just out of curiosity, did you pick one up?

Fri Nov 17 15:54:42 2006, by Michael:

Nope, not yet. The PS3 is:

  1. Too Expensive.

    I didn't spring for a PS2 until it got below $200, and even then it was because it would pull double-duty as a DVD player. The price is going to come way down, or someone's going to have to explain how owning one of these things is life-changing.

  2. Too untested.

    As mentioned above, I was hardly an early adopter of the PS2, and I still managed to get one that ate itself after a few weeks. I got a newer hardware revision under warranty, but, all the same, I'd like to let the PS3 platform mature some before investing in it.

  3. Too bleeding edge.

    I'd prefer to wait and see how the HD format wars shake out instead of jumping on either bandwagon. Betamax was a Sony product, too, remember. I don't have an HD display yet, so the HD capabilities of Blu Ray (or HD DVD for that matter) don't make any difference to me.

I will need to see a killer game or two before I move to a new gaming platform, I think. It'll really have to knock my socks off. My taste in games is rather exotic, so it might be a while...

Sat Nov 18 10:53:47 2006, by Mr. T:

Ahhhh, all good and well-thought out reasons. Sorry to hear about your PS2. I bought mine the day on launch, played the hell out of it, and then gave it to my brother a few years ago, who uses it ten times more than I did. He was having problems with it, and somehow found a way to take it apart. He then cleaned out all the dust inside, and now it works fine. My favorite game was, and still is, the SSX snowboarding series. Other than that, I'm (unfortunately) an MMORPG junkie. I bailed on WoW and Guild Wars. When Conan comes out, I may be a goner.

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