Happy Thanksgiving and Special Stuffing Recipe

Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday of the year. It is one of the few holidays that anyone in America can celebrate. It is both nondenominational and nondiscriminatory. It is a joyous holiday to celebrate giving Thanks to what we have, and the promise of what we hope for. For those who are less fortunate, it is a time for helping and sharing.

Surrounding the Thanks itself are some of the most enjoyable traditions of any holiday. Turkey, with stuffing, cranberries, sweet potatoes/yams, pumpkin pie, special parades, a few extra days off and football, just to name a few. Bringing this all together with family and friends. What could possibly make anyone more happy?

So when you sit down this year to your Thanksgiving Feast, stop a moment and think of what is truly important, and enjoy the moment knowing that what you have IS what is truly important.

On behalf of the City of Lauderhill, my family and myself, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving, and go Lions. And since I now live in Florida, not Detroit any more, go Dolphins too.


DAD’S SPECIAL TURKEY STUFFING

½ LOAF WHEAT BREAD
½ LOAF CHALLAH
½ LOAF WHITE BREAD
2-3 OUNCES OF WHITE WINE
CAN OF MUSHROOMS (STEMS AND PIECES ARE FINE)
½ to 3/4 ONION
2 tbs. OLIVE OIL OR BUTTER
SEVERAL GARLIC CLOVES
2-3 STALKS OF CELERY
1 CARROT
HAND FULL OF PINE HUTS
HAND FULL OF DRIED CHERRIES
HAND FULL OF DRIED CRANBERRIES
CAN OF CLEAR CHICKEN BROTH/SOUP
CAN OF CRANBERRY SAUCE (WHOLE BERRY)
SPICES: SAGE, PARSLEY, THYME, MARJORAM, SALT, PEPPER, BASIL OREGANO


Grind bread in food processor, into coarse bread crumbs, then lightly toast on cookie sheet to dry out bread crumbs.

Drain can of mushroom, and while squeezing liquid out with lid, re-fill can of mushroom with white wine to marinate for at least 15 minutes. Chop carrots with half of the celery in food processor. Add rest of hand sliced celery to carrots with hand chopped onions and garlic. Mix. Begin to saute this mixture in olive oil or butter. Gradually add mushrooms with the wine, followed slowly by pine nuts, dried cherries and dried cranberries and spices. Let simmer.

Add chicken broth/soup when mixture wine is cooked down a bit. ("mixture")

Place mixture, after cooked, into bread crumbs and mix thoroughly. Add cranberry sauce. Mix.
Stuff Turkey, or if placed into a separate dish add dripping of gravy while cooking.