KD's October Stuffing

It occurred to me that I could essentially make a stuffing out of anything so I tried for one with Mushrooms, red peppers, shredded carrots, onions and hot sausage and peas. It was so good. I took the long route- I made this on day two of cooking and it was my weekend masterpiece.

S&P, thyme, parsley
red peppers 3 eggs
carrots wheat bread
milk & butter OR can cream of chicken
mushrooms Hot Italian Sausage
onions frozen peas

1. Either get break crumbs or Lightly Toast a little less than a loaf of wheat bread and cut into little squares; place in big mixing bowl

2. Make the Veggies

• cut an onion or two in supersuper small chunks (everything is really small)
• use a peeler to peel all of the carrot into super small flakes (note- this is easier with a large carrot- I only had the bags of little carrots so I used a cheese grater)
• cut up mushrooms (brown) also into super small chunks
• peas (frozen- already thawed) need the least amount of peas
• 2 or 3 red peppers, also diced

combine all in a sauteing pan with olive oil, butter, salt, pepper and thyme.
stir constantly- it should be basically filled to the top with veggies (also when combining the veggies in the pan go from hardest veggie to softest because they take longer)-- also this mixture smells SO delicious and it smelled like my dads cooking which I did not plan on and it was soooo yummy smelling and it took me back!

3. Take a whole package of hot Italian sausage and take it out of the casings and cook in a separate saucepan

4. (I didn't want to use cream of chicken- so I kind of made a cream of sausage- take fat from sausage pan and heat in small pan with a small amount of water, melt in a fair amount of butter piece by piece stirring w fork or whisking the whole time, adding salt at intervals to help it bond, then pour in milk or cream while still whisking. add your cream of sausage (or a can of cream of chicken, or I guess cream of mushroom or whatever, to the veggie mix and bring to a boil, cover and let simmer after boiling and stirring for awhile.

5. Beat 3 eggs with parsley and salt and pepper.

6. combine sausage pieces with the bread pieces and then pour egg mixture all over- try to get all the bread pieces completely coated with egg (Its fun to use your hands for this but watch out for the salmonella factor)

7. Take huge soup or big chilli pot and combine bread/sausage mixture in the pot (best to do a bit from each mixture and stir & repeat till all mixed in pot. Pour mixture into cast iron skillet. Garnish on the top with extra shaved carrot pieces.

8. Bake at 375 or 350ish for 30 minutes- covered with tin foil. Take tin foil off and bake for another 10 minutes


Umm this is so good. It is the best lazy food in the world. I think I am going to invent another one soon with all kinds of veggies.... also I cooked a casserole and beets and mashed potatoes and a cake and THE BEST Green Beans EVER this weekend

There was actually a point where Katie, MK and I were all sitting on stools in my TINY kitchen shelling green beans and henning away drinking sweet tea!
Take beans, shell and wash. Put in water with pieces of onion (a very few) and rip up a piece of bacon. Add Salt, Pepper, brown sugar, basil, and a dash of clove powder and a dash of Cinnamon. Boil ALL DAY (to quote Katie "You boil the shit outta 'em"), do not cover the pot and add water continuously as it evaporates (maybe some spice replenishing as well)

Coming soon- I have all these finely shopped beets and my friend Josh stopped by this weekend as well, and told me about his boyfriend's Costa Rican beet dish that is like egg salad with hard boiled eggs and beets and mayo and cooked carrots.... I am going to work on that one and figure it out and post lates. Lovelovelove to cook!