http://leitesculinaria.com/23815/recipes-bread-stuffing-bacon-apples-sage-caramelized-onions.html This James Beard Award-winning site from David Leite offers food writing, cookbook and Portuguese recipes, giveaways, more. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:59:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://leitesculinaria.com/23815/recipes-bread-stuffing-bacon-apples-sage-caramelized-onions.html#comment-2421 David Leite Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:06:59 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/?p=23815#comment-2421 We were guests at friends' for Thanksgiving, so we didn't have to do any of the heavy-lifting cooking. I was asked to bring a stuffing (a dressing, really, since it had to be cooked outside of the turkey), and I chose this one. It was a hit. My only problem was proportion. The recipe says to use three pounds of bread, which I did. But I cut up all three loaves and ended up with 19 cups of cubes. So I used just 12, as the recipe states. Different breads, even from the same manufacturer (I used Pepperidge Farms), can weigh the same but have different volume. The supermarket had only two sandwich loaves left, so for the third loaf I reached for a white bread, which was almost 1/3 smaller than the other two. Be forewarned: Use only 12 cups of cubes for maximum flavor. We were guests at friends’ for Thanksgiving, so we didn’t have to do any of the heavy-lifting cooking. I was asked to bring a stuffing (a dressing, really, since it had to be cooked outside of the turkey), and I chose this one. It was a hit. My only problem was proportion. The recipe says to use three pounds of bread, which I did. But I cut up all three loaves and ended up with 19 cups of cubes. So I used just 12, as the recipe states. Different breads, even from the same manufacturer (I used Pepperidge Farms), can weigh the same but have different volume. The supermarket had only two sandwich loaves left, so for the third loaf I reached for a white bread, which was almost 1/3 smaller than the other two. Be forewarned: Use only 12 cups of cubes for maximum flavor.

]]> http://leitesculinaria.com/23815/recipes-bread-stuffing-bacon-apples-sage-caramelized-onions.html#comment-2270 Melissa Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:20 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/?p=23815#comment-2270 I made this recipe (originally from Cooks Illustrated) a few years ago, and it is definitely one of the best stuffings I've ever made. How can you go wrong with carmelized onions and a pound of bacon! I made this recipe (originally from Cooks Illustrated) a few years ago, and it is definitely one of the best stuffings I’ve ever made. How can you go wrong with carmelized onions and a pound of bacon!

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