{"id":4297,"date":"2021-12-26T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2021-12-26T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T05:33:09","slug":"making-my-moms-turkey-stuffing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/26\/making-my-moms-turkey-stuffing-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Making my mom’s turkey stuffing — Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, leading up to Christmas, and generally taking advantage of a week of holidays, I delved into my collection of recipes<\/a>, and made plain white bread, as well as raisin bread<\/a> (twice), lemon squares<\/a> (twice), blondies<\/a>, bran muffins<\/a> (twice) for my mom, shortbread cookies<\/a>, corned beef hash<\/a>, my pepperoni pizza<\/a>, and, the subject of this post, my mom’s turkey stuffing<\/a> — of course, to use for family Christmas dinner, which I also made this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The various steps were performed over several sessions during the week (mostly cubing and drying bread), however, for the sake of narrative, the photos are listed, largely, as though it could have been done in two sessions. And, despite stating in the recipe<\/a> that its cooking in a turkey is beyond the scope of the recipe, I do indeed show at the end of this post the cooking of the stuffing with the Christmas turkey, in response to a conversation with, and comment from, my brother: “If you get a trailer, you want to see it hooked up to a truck.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the turkey stuffing:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the following picture was taken this past week as part of preparing for making the stuffing, normally, throughout the year I collect bread bits and bread crusts …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collected bread crusts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and as I collect them I cube them and dry them, to add to a container of dried bread cubes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread crusts cubed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This week, bread<\/a> I’d just made was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freshly baked bread taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The loaf of bread was sliced for freezing, and some slices were put aside:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread slices taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bread slices taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bread slices were sliced into spears:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread sliced into spears<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bread sliced into spears<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The bread spears were cut into cubes and placed on a tray to dry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread cubes placed on a tray to dry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bread cubes placed on trays to dry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Once dried, the bread cubes were placed in a container I fill over time with dried bread cubes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Container with dried bread cubes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fresh bread cubes were also put aside in a freezer bag and frozen, to be used later in the week when I made the turkey stuffing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh bread cubes in a freezer bag put aside for later in the week when I made the stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the day I made the turkey stuffing, onions were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onions taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The onions were cleaned and trimmed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onions cleaned and trimmed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The onions were cut in half:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onions cut in half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The onion halves were sliced into half coins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onions sliced into half coins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The onions were somewhat finely chopped:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onions somewhat finely chopped<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The chopped onions were transferred to a microwave oven safe cooking vessel, and put aside for a few moments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chopped onions transferred to microwave oven safe cooking vessel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bulk sausage meat was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bulk sausage meat taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and removed from its packaging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bulk sausage meat removed from its packaging<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The sausage meat was broken up by hand and placed in the microwave oven safe cooking vessel along with the chopped onions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bulk sausage meat broken up by hand and placed in microwave oven safe cooking vessel along with chopped onions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The sausage meat and onions were mixed together by hand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sausage meat and chopped onions mixed together<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Time was set on my microwave oven:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time set on microwave oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The microwave oven safe cooking vessel was placed in the microwave oven:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microwave oven safe cooking vessel placed in microwave oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Microwave oven safe cooking vessel in microwave oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Part way through cooking the sausage meat and onions, they were taken out and large pieces were broken up with a large spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sausage meat and onions broken up with large spoon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mostly cooked sausage and onions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mostly cooked sausage meat and onions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The fresh and dried bread cubes were taken out: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh and dried bread cubes taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fresh bread cubes were measured out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh bread cubes measured out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fresh bread cubes were transferred to a large mixing vessel, in this case, my 16 litre soup pot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fresh bread cubes transferred to large mixing vessel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fresh bread cubes in large mixing vessel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The cooked sausage meat and onions were added to the bread cubes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cooked sausage meat and onions added to bread cubes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The bread cubes and the cooked sausage meat and onions were mixed with a large mixing spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients mixed with large mixing spoon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chicken soup base was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken soup base taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chicken soup base was measured out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken soup base measured out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The chicken soup base was added to a measuring cup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken soup base added to measuring cup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Chicken soup base added to measuring cup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Water was added to an electric kettle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water added to electric kettle<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The kettle was turned on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kettle turned on<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Kettle turned on<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Once boiled, boiling water was added to the measuring cup with the chicken soup base:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boiling water added to measuring cup with chicken soup base<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The chicken soup base and the boiling water were mixed together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken soup base and boiling water mixed together<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The chicken soup was added to the rest of the ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken soup added to rest of ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The ingredients were mixed together again with the large spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients mixed with large spoon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ingredients mixed with large spoon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Savoury (spice) was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savoury taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The savoury was sprinkled over the ingredients, and the ingredients were mixed again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savoury sprinkled over ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dry bread cubes were measured out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dry bread cubes measured out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The dry bread cubes were added to the rest of the ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dry bread cubes added to rest of ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The ingredients were yet again mixed together with the large spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients mixed again<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ingredients mixed again<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gauze poultry stuffing bags were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gauze poultry stuffing bags taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gauze poultry stuffing bags taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A gauze bag was filled with the stuffing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gauze bag filled with stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gauze bag filled with stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The gauze bag was tied off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gauze bag tied off<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gauze bag tied off<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The gauze bag was placed in a sealable freezer bag and placed in a fridge for use later, on Christmas day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuffing placed in a plastic bag for later use<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And in the spirit of seeing the “trailer hooked up to a truck”, here are photos from Christmas day, cooking the turkey and stuffing:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Christmas day, the gauze bag with the stuffing was taken out of the freezer bag, and placed on a baking rack in a roasting pan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuffing on baking rack in baking tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bacon was taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bacon taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Slices of bacon were placed on top of the stuffing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bacon placed on top of stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Two turkey breasts, tied together with butcher’s string, were placed on top of the stuffing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey breast place on top of stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bacon was liberally wrapped over and around the turkey and stuffing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey and stuffing wrapped with bacon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Christmas turkey was placed in the oven:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas turkey placed in oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After some cooking, basting, and browning, aluminum foil was placed on top of the turkey partway through cooking the turkey in order to avoid burning on the outside and drying out of the turkey, while the inside of the turkey and stuffing continued to cook (a meat thermometer was critical):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aluminum foil placed on top of turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The fully cooked turkey and stuffing were taken out of the oven:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fully cooked turkey and stuffing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The turkey stuffing was taken out of the gauze bag and transferred to a serving vessel, ready for Christmas dinner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuffing transferred to serving vessel ready for Christmas dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yummy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And — mom loved it!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, leading up to Christmas, and generally taking advantage of a week of holidays, I delved into my collection of recipes, and made plain white bread, as well as raisin bread (twice), lemon squares (twice), blondies, bran muffins (twice) for my mom, shortbread cookies, corned beef hash, my pepperoni pizza, and, the subject of … <\/p>\n

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