Memere Bibeaults Meat Stuffing Recipes

Steps:

• Chop onions and celery and saute until soft.
• Lightly cook pork and drain off grease.
• Add ground beef to pork and cook 5 minutes.
• Transfer meat to deep pan, pot, or Dutch oven.
• Add onions and celery.
• Cook over low heat for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking.
• Drain any grease that has surfaced, and remove from heat.
• Add seasoning, salt, and pepper.
• Add hot water and bread crumbs, and mix well.
• Cover and let stand for 30 minutes.
• While that's standing, preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Spoon meat mixture into pie crust and bake (in bottom shell) for 20-25 minutes. (Variation: add any amount of mashed potatoes after first 15 minutes.).
• Add top crust and seal. Bake until done.

Steps:

• Take the celery and onion and chop it fine. Put it into the pan.
• Take the giblets and liver, chop them fine and put them into the pan.
• Take 4 small sausage links and remove the casings and put them into the pan.
• Put the beef and the pork into the pot and stir everything.
• Shake in allspice, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper, and basil.
• Cook on low for 4 hours occasionally stirring the pot so that nothing sticks or burns.
• Whatever you do, DO NOT DRAIN THE JUICES/FATS whatever you want to call them!
• Put the bread crumbs inches You want to make sure that you didn't put too much. You need only enough to bind the meats together so that it all sticks.
• Cook for ten minutes. Taste the stuffing to adjust the seasonings.
• Keep on low until the stuffing almost sticks on the bottom. Stuffing is done.
• Cool completely. Stuff the Turkey!
• ENJOY!

Steps:

• To prepare the stuffing: Place the eggs in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring the water to a boil, cover, and turn off the heat. Let the eggs sit for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool completely before peeling and chopping.
• Melt 1/2 cup (1 stick) of the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the beef and pork; cook until the meat is starting to brown, about 15 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of the chopped onions and half of the chopped garlic, along with the steak sauce, vinegar, lemon zest, cumin, and oregano; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often, until the onions are completely tender and the meat is cooked through, 30 minutes. Turn off the heat and transfer the meat mixture to a large bowl to cool. The meat base can be made up to 1 day in advance. You may cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until you're ready to make the rest of the stuffing.
• To the same large pot, melt the remaining 1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter over medium heat. Stir in the remaining onions and garlic, along with the bell peppers, celery, and scallions. Add the tomato paste and cook until the vegetables have softened, about 15 minutes. Soak the bread in the milk for 3 minutes. Squeeze as much liquid from the bread as you can and then crumble it into the pot. Add the meat mixture back into the pot, along with the chopped eggs, sausage, raisins, parsley, and olives and mix to combine.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Transfer the stuffing to a buttered casserole dish and bake for 20 to 30 minutes until the top is nicely browned. Serve with roast turkey.

Steps:

• First, have a very large bowl or pot close to stove top so you can put ingredients in as they are cooked.
• Second, you need a good sized fry pan, preferabley with deep, straight sides.
• Third, a good pair of tongs and spoonula.
• Fourth, are the ingredients. These are estimations, I don't really measure.
• Fifth, you might want to do the prep ahead so as to be able to cook and stuff all at once. Or not!
• *you could use just ground pork but the sausage gives a better taste.
• Heat fry pan and oil lightly with a pat of butter.
• Fry 1/2 the beef and 1/2 the sausage together. Make sure to break it all up and mix it well until all is cooked. Dump it all into the pot/bowl you have waiting. Juices and all.
• Do the same to the rest of the beef and sausage. Mix thoroughly.
• Melt 1/4 cup (4 Tbs) butter in fry pan and saute the celery until almost cooked. Dump it all into the pot/bowl and mix thoroughly.
• Melt 1/4 cup (4 Tbs) butter in fry pan and saute the onion until wilted, but not brown. Dump all into the pot/bowl and mix thoroughly.
• Add seasonings at this point. Use the amount that is to your liking. Mix very well.
• If it seems too dry at this point, melt more butter in the fry pan and add to the mix.
• Finally, add the 1 box of croutons and mix several times over the next 15-20 minutes.
• There should be little or no liquid in the bottom of the pot/bowl after this time. The croutons should have absorbed it. If not, add more croutons and repeat.
• Now you can either put the stuffing in a casserole dish, roaster or other baking pan , and cook separately from the turkey.
• I stuff my turkey, both neck and cavity immediately, while the stuffing is hot, and put it into the oven to roast. The extra stuffing goes in a separate pan to cook along side the turkey.
• If you use a spearate casserole to do cook the stuffing, you may want to use some pan drippings to mix into the casserole and give it more flavor.
• With this we serve mashed potatoes, peas, my special turnip/carrot mash, cranberry sauce, and Polish rye or sisal bread. Of course, the gravy, too!

Steps:

• Place the giblets in a saucepan with the water, and simmer for 1 hour. Strain, reserve the broth, cool the giblets and chop.
• Place the bacon, chicken fat and butter in a large skillet, and cook for 3 minutes over low heat. Add the onion, celery and garlic, and cook for 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms, stir well to combine, and cook for 2 minutes. Add the ground beef, ground veal and sausage, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring to break up lumps of meat. Add the kidney, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the giblets and the chicken livers, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring gently.
• Place the mixture in a large bowl, and add the bread crumbs, salt, pepper, parsley, mint, thyme, allspice and cumin, and stir to combine. Add the Cognac and chicken broth and stir. Add the chestnuts and the pine nuts and stir well. Adjust seasonings. When cool, this stuffing can be baked inside the turkey, or if you prefer, placed in a casserol and baked for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.