Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was great! Wednesday night I made some skillet corn bread from Veganomicon to go in a stuffing recipe that I decided to make for myself to take to our family Thanksgiving get together. The cornbread turned out great. I just happened to be looking at my Veganomicon cookbook the other night and came across a lot of recipes that I want to make. The cornbread happen to be one of them. I've had this cookbook for several months, but haven't made much from it yet. That is sooo about to change.

Thursday morning I got up with the intent to lounge around and catch up on some blogs while my stuffing cooked, but it didn't work out that way. I found a wild rice cornbread stuffing recipe on line that really sounded good. I always love dressing on thanksgiving, so I was actually sad that I was going miss that. I had thought about making a veggie pot pie, but when I came across this recipe, I knew this was what I needed to make. Here's the recipe with a few changes that I made.

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/4 onion, chopped

1 rib celery, chopped fine

1/2 apple, chopped

1 teaspoon sage

1/8 teaspoon sea salt

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

3 cups pre-cooked vegan cornbread

1/2 cup pre-cooked wild rice

2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped fine

2 tablespoons dried cranberries

1/8 teaspoon thyme

1/8 teaspoon rosemary

1/8 teaspoon oregano

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

3/4 teaspoon sea salt

2 tablespoons parsley

1 cup vegetable broth

Add the first 7 ingredients to a sauce pan and saute for approximately 15 minutes or until the apples and celery begin to soften. Meanwhile, crumble precooked cornbread into a large bowl. Add wild rice, walnuts, dried cranberries, sea salt and the other spices. Mix in sauteed mixture, stirring well. Add vegetable broth and mix well. Place in an oiled casserole dish and bake at 350. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. After 40 minutes, uncover and bake another 20 minutes.

My dish to bring for Thanksgiving dinner was a big salad, so I took a salad and my stuffing. A few people tried my stuffing. The ones who tried it really liked it. I have to say that it was totally awesome. I actually think that I prefer it over the southern dressing that I have been accustomed to eating my entire life.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I had planned on doing a lot of relaxing and blogging, but some way the weekend seems to be getting away from me. Where does the time go?

~Peace~