Make stuffing your choice of ways. Add a small can of fresh oysters. I drain them and don’t add the water from the oyster can to my dressing. I remove the hard square that looks like gristle and cut the remaining oyster into small pieces and mix well into the dressing.
I cut up onions and celery, sautéed them in butter and add to the broken up toasted bread. Add a few choice herbs. Add a broth made from hot water and chicken bouillon. Mix well and stuff turkey. Coat outside of turkey with softened butter to bake it to a golden brown. Salt well and place in oven to bake according to directions on turkey package.
This gives a very slight oyster flavor to your turkey meat and by using the drippings gives a mild flavor to the gravy. Most people will not recognize that delicious flavor as coming from the oysters.
When the owner of Tam Bay Realty closed it’s Venice office I joined Century 21 First Realty of Venice and the broker owner Ron Morrison had a rule that after the first check from a sale that a salesperson received, you had to treat the office with a party.
My husband and I were living at the home on Da Vinci Dr in Sorrento East and I invited the office people to bring husband or wife and come to our home on an evening for a thanksgiving turkey dinner that I spent two days preparing.
I stuffed a turkey with oyster dressing, had mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables and salad. I made two pumpkin pies and two mince pies.
About 22 people ate at the tables we had set up around our pool. Ann Hawkins who became my best friend as we got acquainted said, ” I want your recipe for that stuffing, it is the best I ever ate.”
Me and Ann Hawkins at Crow’s Nest restaurant breakfast given. By First American Title Insurance they took photo framed it and gave to me.
I replied “That is oyster stuffing!” She said, “I don’t like oysters”.
Well……Apparently dear lady, you do like oysters, you just were not aware of it!!!!!!!
And so as my lawyer son-in-law Tracy Drake would say, “I REST MY CASE”
At another time:
Me, Tom Hawkins (Ann’s husband) another office manager, my apology I can’t remember her name.
FRF ♥