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Recipe Blogging - Thanksgiving stuffing

APOLOGIES to all my kosher peeps - including my son Aryeh and Bobby Orbach. This recipe includes pork.

THANKSGIVING Stuffing:

1 ib. ground pork

4 large onions

a whole bunch of brown mushrooms

10 garlic pieces

some carrots, orange peppers, celery

a whole bunch of brussel sprouts

walnuts, raisins, apricots

off the shelf ’stuffing’ (bread croûtons - spiced or unspiced - doesn’t matter) - cubes or shake

butter

salt and pepper

something to add a ‘hint‘ of - I used balsamic vinegar this year, cumin last year - you get the idea.

Saute each ingredient separately in butter - placing the results into a large bowl. Add garlic, salt and pepper to each batch.

Once everything’s been cooked, add the dressing, raisins, walnuts and apricots. You could even add some sliced Apples (I by-passed that this year.)

Stuff the bird and keep what’s left over and simply bake that - for >1:00.

This is what’s called a ’savory dressing’. It’s almost impossible to fuck up. Squirtsome Turkey juice on the extra stuffing - to get that ‘flavor’ going on.

Enjoy and think about ‘open social networking‘ as you’re eating it. Especially when you encounter one of those Brussel Sprouts. Think - mmmmm - this is “Facebook”. Then when you hit a walnut, think “MySpace”. And the raisins; well those are all those “small, distributed, vertical niche social networks”. Then as the whole thing just coalesces into this sublime Thanksgiving holiday goop (with the gravy, meat, steamed veggies and some sort of potato) - think “ah - a metaphor for life.”

Dressing is like life - you just have to get the mix right.

I dedicate this recipe to all the micro-content search engines which will one day provide this recipe to anyone who types in “Thanksgiving Stuffing recipe”. And let’s not forget those NEW kind of Web 2.0 recipe services - for us foodies!