Cornbread Dressing with Giblet Gravy and Chicken with Dumplings

Wolffork Valley Georgia



I am pulling out recipes for Thanksgiving and I thought I would pass them on to you. I know I am partial but I think my Mom's cornbread dressing is the best ever! This is the way she makes it. Not hard just takes a little time.

Wade wanted to know why we have to wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas to have dressing!

Corn Bread Dressing with Giblet Gravy
3 cups of medium grind corn meal
10 pieces of white bread for bread crumbs
2 tsp. of salt
3 eggs
2 1/4 cup milk
3 Stalks of celery sauté until tender in 2 tablespoons of butter with 1 large onion chopped
7 eggs boiled and chipped (reserve 3 eggs chipped for gravy)
Hen meat previously cooked with celery and onion, deboned and shredded

For Cornbread:

Heat oven to 450
Pour 1/4 cup vegetable oil in 10" cast iron skillet set aside.

Mix cornmeal, salt, 3 eggs and milk. Place in skillet in 3 pones. With a spoon take the oil that comes up the sides of the pan and dab the tops of the pones.  Bake in 450 degree oven for 30 min or until golden brown.

Remove from oven and let cool. You can make cornbread the night or day before and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before crumbling.

Toast the white bread until crunchy. Let cool and roll toast with rolling pin into fine bread crumbs.

Ok now you are ready to combine everything and make your dressing. At this point you can refrigerate everything and assemble the next morning.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Combine crumbled cornbread with sautéed celery and onions, 4 sliced and chopped boiled eggs, ( chop eggs into slices about 1/4 inch thick or less and then cut in half. You don't want to smash the eggs or cut them too small they will break up when you start mixing it all together), add the bread crumbs, and reserved chicken and season with black pepper. Pour some chicken broth into the cornbread mixture and mix with spoon until well blended. The dressing should appear wet and pour easily into a
13 x 9 baking dish. Bake 45 min at 400 degrees until golden brown.

Giblet Gravy
3 tablespoons of olive oil
2 heaping tablespoons of flour
3 to 4 cups warm chicken broth
2 cups dark meat chicken diced
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped onions
3 chipped boiled eggs
salt and pepper to taste

Heat oil in skillet and add flour stir until brown add warm broth and season with salt and pepper, add celery, onions, chopped chicken and chipped boiled eggs. Cook on medium for about 10 to 15 min. until thickened. If too thick add more broth. This gravy should be medium to thin....not thick.

Chicken and Dumplings with Tortillas

Cook the chicken in boiling water with salt, pepper, 3 stalks celery chopped and 1 small onion chopped. When tender remove from the water and let cool. Remove from bone and chop.
Use flour tortillas and cut them into strips. Add about 1 1/2 cups chopped chicken back to water. Bring the water you cooked the chicken to a level of a little over half the pot. Bring to a boil and lay the sliced tortillas on top of the water, one at a time. When you have them all in the pot do not stir. Take the back of your spoon and push the tortillas down into the broth and turn the burner off and cover with lid. Do not stir.   That's very important. Serve immediately with dressing and giblet gravy.

I set up a website last night to sell things from. I don't have anything on the antiques and art page yet. I have some old furniture, frames, art prints and original art, vintage Haeger pottery, and designer fabrics and wallpapers to post. I have fabric samples, wallpaper samples and old magazines from the 20's and 30's that I plan to package for sell. Great for crafters and scrapbooks. I am using some of the papers and fabrics to back shadow boxes with also. There are hundreds of out of date fabric memo samples that will be great for scrapbooking, quilting and dollmakers. I also have some really great old tile murals that I bought from an old tile store that was going out of business about 20 years ago. I am guessing they are from the 50's and 60's. I also have some vintage retro fabric samples that were stored in my grandmothers house. I don't know where they came from. The images are great though. Some are stained along the fold lines but that is just adding to their retro appeal! I plan to eventually have some pillows and handmade things for sell on the site too.

You will find some cakes and pies for sell listed on the Granny's Cakes page. I let Tricia talk me into baking some things for sell. The layer cakes and pies can't ship but I will ship pound cakes and fruit cakes for Christmas delivery. Take a look www.louisandlillyathome.com. Have a great weekend.