{"id":70,"date":"2014-11-26T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T11:11:24","slug":"grandmamas-cornbread-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Grandmama&#8217;s Cornbread Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cornbread-Scott-Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cornbread-Scott-Moore-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Made by my friend, Scott Moore.  Mine never looked this pretty.\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cornbread-Scott-Moore-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cornbread-Scott-Moore-624x448.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cornbread-Scott-Moore.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Made by my friend, Scott Moore. Mine never looked this pretty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My beloved grandmother died in April after a long, love-filled life. \u00a0For as long as I can remember, she made cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving. \u00a0Even after she no longer\u00a0hosted dinner for family and friends, her contribution (at everyone&#8217;s insistence) was dressing. \u00a0In the South, we don&#8217;t eat stuffing. \u00a0We make a big casserole dish of DRESSING. \u00a0Only onions, celery, and seasonings, if anything, are put inside the turkey while cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Before a new job and life adventure moved me away from my family and friends in 2003, I asked her to teach me how to make dressing. \u00a0At the time, she was having knee problems, and I thought it would be good for both of us, since I like talking through a recipe instead of reading it, and I knew she could use a little help.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s AMAZING how much more you learn when your grandmother teaches the recipe!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always add a dab more baking soda to the cornbread batter when you use buttermilk. \u00a0And a little flour added to the cornmeal makes a nice texture that isn&#8217;t quite as coarse. \u00a0(She liked Martha White&#8217;s Cornmeal Mix the best.)<\/li>\n<li>Always use buttermilk (or sweet milk with lemon if you have none). \u00a0The batter needs to be kind of soupy.<\/li>\n<li>Cook the onions and celery longer than you think you should. \u00a0They need to be transparent.<\/li>\n<li>Be generous with the liquids. \u00a0Nobody likes dry dressing (and I can attest to this, as I am a slow learner).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish I had taken pictures as we worked, but that was before it became the thing to do. \u00a0I&#8217;m not posting the recipe here, as I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of cornbread dressing recipes on the internet. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The magic of the dressing, for my family, was the love you could taste in every bite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year we decided to go out for Thanksgiving to a nice Italian restaurant. \u00a0I&#8217;ll make dressing again when my heart can stand it &#8211; maybe next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beloved grandmother died in April after a long, love-filled life. \u00a0For as long as I can remember, she made cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving. \u00a0Even after she no longer\u00a0hosted dinner for family and friends, her contribution (at everyone&#8217;s insistence) was dressing. \u00a0In the South, we don&#8217;t eat stuffing. \u00a0We make a big casserole dish of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/?p=70\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grandmama&#8217;s Cornbread Dressing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pejBSQ-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}