Here I am back again for this week. Sorry that this is only getting to be about once a week, but things are busy at this time of year. I know one of my recipes today is a repeat, but I did make the stuffing moister, and I took pictures during the process, and I DID stuff the turkey this time - yay!! This was my first time to cook a stuffed turkey, and I was truly happy with the outcome. So, yesterday we had the turkey with the sausage and apple stuffing - which I think will become a favorite here - no more boxed stuffings - I personally have never been a fan of that stuff anyway!! Wished I could give you my gravy recipe, but I do not have one, I just make it and it is usually thick and no lumps - lol.
Today I baked cookies, and I got the recipe from another website, but I did changed it a bit. Here is the link to the original though. http://www.hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2012/11/m-m-cookiesextra-thick.html
So, here are my recipes for today.
Sausage and Apple Stuffing
8 cups cubed white bread (I used french bread)
1 pound country sausage
2 medium sweet onions, diced
3 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
1 cup chicken broth
1 Tbsp poultry seasoning
Cube bread and leave out on a cookie sheet to dry out; or place in oven at 250 degrees F for 10 minutes or until dry to the touch. When ready to make stuffing, place bread cubes in a large mixing bowl.
Brown country sausage in frying pan; breaking into pieces as it cooks. Cook until there is no pink left in the sausage, With a slotted spoon, remove sausage from frying pan, and add to the cubed bread. Mix together, breaking up any larger pieces of sausage.
Pour fat from frying pan, reserving but 1 to 2 tablespoons for sauteing onions. Add onions; saute them until they are tender, not brown. Stir in the chicken broth and apples; heat to boiling. Pour over bread and sausage mixture; add poultry seasoning. Mix or toss until evenly moist.
Ingredients
Cook and chop up sausage - I love my Pampered Chef Chop and Mash!!
Add sausage to bread crumbs - I dried these out a couple of days ahead by just leaving out.
Saute chopped onion
Add chopped apple and 1 cup chicken broth and bring to a boil.
Mix into bread and sausage mixture, and add poultry seasoning!!
Close up - doesn't it look awesome?!
This is the finished turkey!!!
I cook my turkeys in a bag. You can probably see the cut bag in the picture.
I shake 2 Tablespoons of flour in the bag. I have rinsed my turkey, and then patted it
dry with paper towel. Then I baste the turkey with vegetable oil, and sprinkle poultry seasoning
on the turkey. Turkey was cooked at 350 degrees F. for almost 3 hours.
Close up of the yummy stuffing, and how it was bulging out of the turkey!
The basting of the oil on the turkey makes a nice brown and crisy skin!!
Take the turkey out of the roaster, and take the bag out of the pan, leave the drippings.
Add some more chicken broth, and bring to a boil and make your gravy, adding some more
poultry seasoning and a little salt to flavor. Oh, I also use a little soy sauce to make the gravy
a little darker in color. And I also use a water and flour mixture to make my gravy, but make sure
your liquid is boiling, and you whisk in the mixture constantly so you do not get lumps.
M&M's Extra Thick Cookies!!
1 cup softened butter or margarine - I used margarine.
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup packed light brown sugar
2 extra large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 and 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
12 oz. bag of chocolate chips
1/2 bag M&M's
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to wet micture. Stir in chocolate chips and M&M's. These are very stiff so use something very sturdy to stir, I broke my wooden spoon, and it wasn't a thin one - lol.
Using cookie scoop, scoop dough onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes, and when the cookies come out of the oven, immediately push in a few more M&M's.
Yield : 3 and 1/2 dozen cookies.
Cookie mixture.
Scoop of cookie dough on greased cookie sheet.
Fresh out of oven and ready to have M&M's added.
Added M&M's.
These cookies were a big hit with the neighbors!!! I HAD to share with them all!!
Hope you all enjoy, and have a great day!!!
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