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I looove my dad's dressing, but it's pretty hit and miss in my family. It's pretty simple - just bread, onion, celery, plenty of butter and herbs. It looks a lot like this one: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/thanksgiving-dressing/ Unfortunately my dad doesn't have it written down and just kind of eyeballs it every year.

The only thing I like is Stove Top. Particularly on top a chicken cordon bleu casserole so its a little crunchy. Hard pass on anything at Thanksgiving. In my circles it likely has something crunchy like celery or something unexpected like sausage.

I love it! I actually don’t care about the turkey at all, but cooking a turkey is worth it for the stuffing and gravy.

@Becky: Aldi has a GF option! I haven't tried it yet bc I keep forgetting I have it.

The stuffing I grew up with is something not many people have heard of. You essentially take a loaf of torn white bread and a sleeve or two of crushed saltines and mix them together with some seasonings and eggs. It's stuff into the bird and when it's done, you can slice it. It's actually pretty good covered in gravy.

Otherwise, my immediate family was making stuffing with either cubed pretzel rolls or sourdough bread with cooked sausage, seasonings and broth. That is delicious.

However, I'm also GF now so I'll have to stick with the Aldi one or find some good GF bread.

It’s always been a favorite, and I love it more in the years since I started making it myself. Now it’s the dish I always bring or make for the thanksgiving meal.
Mine has a mix of white/wheat bread with sage sausage, tons of mushrooms, onion, and parsley. Cooked with butter, broth, and a couple eggs to hold it together when baked (in a dish, never the bird). It’s like a very savory bread pudding but not as wet. I don’t usually have rolls or anything - dressing is my bread

I think it's gross and my kids don't eat it, but my husband loves it. When I do make stuffing for Thanksgiving, I make stuffing muffins-- bread and sausage and sage and diced apple. I haven't made them in a couple years though because they're labor intensive and I already have enough to do that day...and, like I said, my husband is the only one who eats them.

@MoonMoon: Stuffing (we call it stuffing, but cook it outside the bird) is totally the best part of Thankgiving dinner! My aunt makes three kinds - usually plain, sausage, and oyster - and they are all yummy. Of course, I think her secret ingredient is one metric ton of butter.

I've liked other homemade stuffings (with my husband's family, for instance), but don't find the boxed stuff to be worth it.

That Stouffer's crap from the box?? Hell yeah we love that. My mom adds some celery and onions to it. (We don't adulterate the classics with fancy shit)

@Anagram: do you make it with pork sausage? I feel like that makes the dish for me plus cornbread, chestnuts, apples, etc.

My mom makes amazing white bread stuffing. It's always separate from the bird. I used her recipe once to make stuffing for inside the bird, because I thought you can only improve the turkey by adding delicious filling. Wrong. It was soggy and gross, no one but me ate it, and I've learned my lesson about not mixing the two.

I love stuffing! Some stovetop, doctored up with onions and celery and more chicken broth than the directions call for, yum!

My in-laws make some cornbread abomination with hard boiled eggs in it that I can not get behind though.

@graceandjoy: Yes just usually a geographic difference in name. My southern family calls it dressing versus my northern family calling it stuffing.

I love it in just about any shape it comes in, however, I probably won't eat it if it was stuffed in the bird (although we did growing up, but no one knew how bad that was back then lol). My family makes cornbread stuffing, and its a really simple recipe. Make cornbread, crumble into a bowl, add chicken stock, sage, salt and pepper, and then if you like veggies you can add chopped up (& sautéed) onion and celery. Easy peasy.

I love stuffing, both my MIL's apple, sausage, sage, bread variety and my grandmother's simpler version. Neither side stuffs it in the turkey any longer, and I really like that you can get crunchy bits.

I never did growing up because it was just soggy bread but then my mom started making a magical one that she cooked outside of the bird and it is so good. It's the only one I like. MIL makes something else but I need to volunteer to bring it so I can enjoy eating it again. It's a spinach almond stuffing. I'll see if I can find the recipe.

@Anagram: I’m with you on Thanksgiving leftovers in general - I just don’t get the fuss. I have a lot of extended family staying with me for Thanksgiving, but we are having the actual Thanksgiving meal at another family members house. My MIL is so disappointed that we won’t have Thanksgiving leftovers at my house and wants to cook Thanksgiving again the next day… Um, NO! I’m so glad not to have the leftovers!

I like stuffing, if it’s well made (thoughtfully seasoned with “extras” like sausage/veggies, not just out of the box)...but one serving keeps me going all year, haha.