I live in Texas, and my mother is from Oklahoma, so I grew up thinking everyone ate cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving.
They don’t. They so don’t.
A few years ago, we went on a cruise for Thanksgiving with my husband’s family and though the turkey and mashed potatoes were wonderful, we were all shocked and horrified (I’m sort of exaggerating, a little) at the stuffing. It was most definitely not cornbread dressing. I’m not exactly sure what it was.
I’m sharing two things with you today.
First, some recipes over on my mother’s website:
- My Mom’s traditional Oklahoma cornbread recipe
- My brother’s favorite jalapeno cornbread dressing recipe, which I think is just wrong, but everyone else loves it.
And second, my mom’s book! That’s the back of my son’s handsome head on the cover! I took the photo, but I did NOT see those camels!
A thirteen-year-old shepherd boy experiences the adventure he dreamed of when he rescues the unloved son of a despicable king. But when rumors of the Hebrews become reality, his family has to choose. Flee with the stampede of refugees or stay and take a stand? As a spy for Gibeon on a lonely crag above the Hebrew horde, the enemy looms ever more foreboding when they cross an impossibly flooded river and shout to bring down an impregnable walled city. Gibeon is next. Can his people avoid sure destruction? At what price?
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The book is written for “middle grades” but I really enjoyed it. It is a great way to look more closely into the real people affected by the events of the Old Testament.
--Nony
Oh my goodness! Now I need Corn Casserole! Does your family do that one? Basically, it’s a can of corn + a can of creamed corn + box of jiffy cornbread mix + stick of butter and some sour cream thrown in for good measure. I think I could pretty much make it and eat the entire 13 x 9 pan by myself right now!
That so good it should be illegal! Have you tried maple syrup on it?
That’s so exciting about your mom’s book! My husband and I were helping at my boys’ school’s book fair last week, and the librarian had your mom’s books available on the table (and showed me that she had bought them for the school library) when we were talking about books for my 6th grader (since he loves to read). I’m definitely going to get it for him now :-).
I never like cornbread dressing, but it was always one of the four or five different dressings when my grandmother had turkey. Cornbread dressing, “regular” dressing (made with white bread, poultry seasoning, celery and bell pepper, and sometimes chopped hard-boiled eggs), oyster dressing, made with oysters, bread, and oyster crackers, “cranberry” dressing, like “regular” dressing only with cranberries chopped in it (different entirely from “cranberry dressing” which was cranberries cooked with orange zest) and after I was six my allergy dressing made with biscuits instead of bread (yeast allergy.) Most people took at least three kinds of dressing. In addition to the mashed potatoes and the sweet potatoes and the three or four green and yellow vegetables.
My turkey is in the oven as I write, since I’m working Thanksgiving (animal care doesn’t have holidays.)
It just dawned on me that you are from Texas, I knew this before, but my dad’s family is from Oklahoma! Love it there. They live in Anadarko. my dad died of the flu last year :/ but I was able to visit after 7 years of not seeing them. Love it over there. I hate jalepenos lol but Texas and Oklahoma cooking is great! I could just leave those out. Dressing is my favorite sidedish!