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Stuffing

Here is one way to make stuffing using stale bread.  It’s a different and special and unique stuffing recipe, just in time for Thanksgiving.  And just in case your bread is stale and you don’t feel like making stuffing – freeze the stale bread or dry it thoroughly so it won’t mold and store it in an airtight jar or bag until you are ready to use it!
Servings:0

Ingredients

  • 150 g Delicious stale bread This is the weight after you cut the crusts off
  • 1/2 a small can of Anchovies  the kind in olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon of Capers
  • 3 big branches of Rosemary  So about 60 needles in total
  • 6 sage Leaves With the centre vein cut out so just use both “halves” of the leaf
  • 5 cloves of  Garlic Peeled salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 handful of  Pine nuts
  • 1 Salt and pepper To taste

Instructions

In the morning when you discover the bread is kind of stale and won’t be ok the next day, cut it into cubes and leave it lying on a plate so it can get REALLY stale by the evening.

  • Get your ingredients together and do the following:
     Put the garlic, capers, anchovies, and pine nuts in the magimix and pulse it until they are mushed up.
  • Add the bread and pulse again until it is a mush.
  • Add the salt, pepper and herbs and turn it on until it forms a paste.  If it does not form a paste add about a tablespoon of water but this is not a stuffing that you spread, its a stuffing the you can squish into a ball with your hands and place or sprinkle or STUFF on or in whatever you are stuffing.

To stuff something you are going to roll:

  • Unroll the thing (lamb, pork, fish, beef strips of aubergine…) and pat it dry.  Lightly season the inside.  Sprinkle/squash the stuffing on top – all the way to the sides and not too thick or you won’t be able to roll it up.  Roll the thing up and either skewer it closed or tie it up with string.  Bake according to the normal instructions you would use to do a stuffed thing.

To stuff a bird:

  • Stuff the stuffing in the bird and remember to give an extra 20 minutes when you roast it.

To stuff a mushroom or a pepper or a courgette flower (or anything else):

  • Spoon the stuffing in/on and pack it down lightly.  Grill/fry/bake as you wish.
  • Delicious, simple stuffing that makes anything taste better and impresses your guests!
    No string, no problem!  This is what we had to do when we discovered there was no string or skewers: