No nuts.

Yea! Have had dressing with chestnuts or pecans or walnuts. And also with pine nuts or pepitas....not actually nuts but seeds but certainly similar in texture :-)

I prefer the chestnuts with more traditional bread stuffing but the others mix great with cornbread-sausage stuffing. Especially if any fruit gets added!

ETA: There are a zillion stuffing/dressing recipes online that include nuts. Not at all a "weird family thing"!!

Always nuts. Pecans. And after out of the oven, or the bit in the bird, (not this year)...toasted pepitas and some pomegranate seed and a dusting of fresh parsley...parsley is in it always but baked so I always have some saved garnish on the back prep counter In small bowls. It is a special meal and if I have it, it goes on and in.

I make three dressings/stuffings...vegan, gluten free, and full-on lamb sausage stuffing most want. All three are excellent. Wild rice, apple, four breads, mushrooms....

Love chestnuts but rarely see them. None in any market this year. Maybe it is a xmas treat here. Though I have used them thanksgiving in the past I seem to remember(?)

Y Mom used to add water chestnuts to the stuffing. I liked the crunch they added. But DH and dsil didn’t so don’t add them anymore..

Not being a nut at all, water chestnuts are actually the roots (corms/tubers) of a water loving species of a grass-like plant. But definitely crunchy.....much like celery is.

Chestnuts tend not to show up here until right before Christmas. And are not cheap when they do!! I remember being given the assignment of peeling the steamed nuts before they were chopped and included in the dressing mix. A very tedious chore!! But you could always sneak a bite or two (or 10) so that made up for the drudgery :-)

My aunt always put nuts in the dressing, and cooked rice. We all loved it. I still do the rice, always, but I honestly don't think of the nuts.

I like pecans in my stuffing, but DH doesn't. So I alternate years :-)

No for us. Our holiday dinners (Thanksgiving and Christmas) include sweet potato casserole with pecans and pecan pie. That’s enough nuts. I make cornbread/bread crumb dressing with onions and celery.

I don’t think it’s weird, we just prefer not to add them to the dressing.

Just make two or three. While prepping I divide the contents while chopping anyway...the whole half is meat stock. 2 separate 1/4's go into veg stock, Bla bla...the nutty vegetarian is delish.

No nuts. Never

Nuts are a surprise that keeps on giving. Like the muffin with the unexpected nut that broke my tooth and resulted in a $700 root canal.

If i have a recipe that calls for nuts, I make sure they are crushed almost to dust.

General rule, no nuts in my food. There are exceptions of course, but stuffing is not one of them.

As with everything else in my life, there are no absolutes, so my answer is "it depends". If I'm making the traditional white bread/celery/onion/sage stuffing, then no nuts. Cornbread stuffing usually gets sausage, so it doesn't need nuts. Anything like a wild rice stuffing or something similar would get nuts.

Oddly enough, I like nuts but I don't like them in some things, like most baked goods. Brownies, cookies, fudge, the heat seems to "cook" the nuts and I don't like that.

Yeah, I know. I'm odd. And picky. Tell your DH how lucky he is to have you instead of me, LOL.

Annie

L, put the bread ends in the freezer. Freezer burned bread makes great stuffing. You just have to pour stock on it several times, just enough to moisten, let it set in, then do some more, so they rehydrate rather than dissolving.

No crunchies in stuffing here, except the dried bits (or what one guy calls "croutons") from the top of the casserole (which are necessary when everything else is soft).

OTOH, I put spiced pecans halves and TJ's cooked chestnuts in my Thanksgiving Tsimmis.

Nope for me. I would not find that appetizing at all. But I do know people who do love it.

I think next year I am going to buy some "stuffing bread" and let is sit out for a day or two before cutting it up. The bread I used was hard and brittle and kept OK in a canister, but did not necessarily taste all that good, had that dried out old bread taste, which was not to be disguised by broth, celery, onions, sausage and spices. In fact, it was just a waste of the other items. I am not a devotee of stuffing under the best of circumstances, I don't even like bread pudding all that much. It's good, but I much prefer my bread just fresh and lightly toasted. Even bread pudding is best made with bread that is only slightly dried out.

I make cornbread dressing, but this year I made it with grits, to save time. I've done this quite a few times, and I can barely tell the difference. No nuts (or fruit) in my dressing - I get crunch from the celery. I add parsley at the end and I also put parsley in the mushroom gravy that I make. This year I had to go out in the rain to pick the parsley. I thought about adding apples to the dressing because we have so many but decided against it. I don't like dressing to be sweet, and in general I keep it simple. I did add a chocolate Habanero this year, and it turned out to be not as hot as I expected. It was a small one, and it might also be a hybrid, as I grew the plant from seeds that I had collected from the previous crop, and I had other chilies growing at the same time.

No fruit or nuts in my dressing, Thank you!

DITO what Angela said.

Only chestnuts or pecans. Chestnuts being preferred. Hubby has informed me he is not too crazy about the chestnuts, but he's also not too crazy about stuffing in general, so I just don't worry about it and make it the way I like = P

I buy precooked organic chestnuts from Trader Joe's, since it's become almost impossible to get fresh chestnuts around here any more - and it's less work too = )

And haha - perhaps your husband thought he had a good argument, but it's obviously untrue. Does 'nobody else' mean just him?

I love nuts in dressing. Chestnuts are my preference but walnuts and cranberries are good too. I also use pignoli and pepitas in a lot. I made a "quick" stuffing with a Pepperidge Farm mix, roasted butternut squash and pepitas recently along with a pork shoulder in the Instant Pot. I had a long day at work and had left over roasted squash so I grabbed the pork and a box of stuffing at the store on the way home.

Chestnuts are something I grew up with and I am undecided if I like the flavor or it is mostly nostalgia. I still have the knife my grandpa cut the x in the top of the chestnuts with before they were roasted.

in my dressing either and no fruit...unless it's chopped apples....and I prefer ti without.
Interesting, this year I went to my son inlaw's sister's for Thanksgiving. She made the stuffing, gravy, turkey and ham and mashed potatoes, and the rest was brought by guests. We had spiced pecans on the appetizer table, we had Brussels Sprouts with butternut squash and pecans, we had a lovely green salad with chopped apples....and pecans. I am thanking the powers that be that there weren't pecans in the dressing.....but alas no pecan pie....I should have brought it, but pie wasn't on my list.

I agree some chopped cranberries and apples are very good in stuffing/dressing!

I like all different kinds of stuffing/dressing. I used to make a different one for every holiday. Now that it is just me and hubs, I make the same ol' traditional one every time. Hubs is very conservative when it comes to food. He doesn't care for variety, it upset him. I'm just the opposite, I like variety and get bored with the same old stuff. We alternate philosophies with our meals!

Yes, this is getting to be a pet peeve of mine with hubs, if he has an opinion, and I have a different one, all of a sudden I am a bizarre outlier and 99% of the rest of the world agrees with him. Being a scientist I know he hasn't taken a poll, and frankly I could probably track an actual valid poll down in the literature, but that would be beside the point. Hubs isn't going to change so I just try to ignore him. This nuts in stuffing thing I found interesting, to hear about what others liked, which is why I posted it.

I have put a cup of slivered almonds in dressing and like it.

No nuts or fruit in mine, please! Thank you!

I like texture so I like nuts in things. Slivered or chopped, to make for less dental drama. I even like nuts in risotto. And we put candied walnuts in salad.

My inlaws had 4 kinds of stuffing this year....I don't think I am that generous.

Yea to chestnuts nuts and fruit and even oysters in dressing. Love it all and bring it on!

I'm very hungry right now and I could sure go for a some nice dressing / stuffing.

I like fruit and nuts in stuffing/dressing for wild game, especially goose, but so much in stuffing/dressing for domesticated chicken or turkey.