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SAUSAGE APPLE STUFFING FOR Your Thanksgiving or Holiday Table
Oct 26, 2025
SAUSAGE APPLE STUFFING FOR Your Thanksgiving or Holiday Table #easyrecipe #thanksgiving #stuffing Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/sausage-apple-stuffing/
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Hi everyone. Welcome back to Katherine's
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Plates where today I'm going to show you
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how to make sausage apple stuffing for
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the holidays. It is full of
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deliciousness. We're going to bulk it up
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with the apples, celery, onions. We're
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going to add that nice succulent and
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savory sausage. We've got the bread and
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that makes all the difference in the
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world, you guys. I'm going to show you
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how you're going to dry that out. We're
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going to add some delicious herbs and
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seasonings and then pull the whole thing
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together. Look at this. When you want
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this on your table, first thing we're
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going to do is talk about the bread.
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Now, when you're making stuffing, you
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need to have dried breadcrumbs. And I'm
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not using the stuffing mix that you can
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find in the store that's already dried
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for you, have all the herbs in it. We're
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going to make our own. And it's really
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easy to do. It only takes about 30 to 45
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minutes in your oven to dry out your
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bread. I'm using a sourdough loaf here.
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It's already sliced, but I'm going to
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cube this
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and show you how to just dry it out
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fast. You don't have to leave it out
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overnight. So, I'm just going to take my
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bread and then we're going to cube it.
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You want to use a bread knife. I'm going
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to do about one inch cubes. So, I'm
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going to that's what I'm going to cut.
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We'll just cut through
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And then we'll just turn it around
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and cut through that.
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Don't squish your bread.
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You want to dry out your bread. That way
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it can absorb all the delicious flavors
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and liquid that we're going to put into
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this.
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You want about four to five cups of the
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bread because we're going to be bulking
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it up with a lot of good stuff. Now,
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I've got a large sheet pan. I just lined
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it with a piece of parchment and then I
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put rack on top of it and make sure it's
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oven proof and it fits my pan here. And
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we're just going to fill this with the
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bread crumbs here.
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And if you have big pieces, you can just
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break them up. That's fine. Nobody will
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know. This will make about a 9 by13
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amount of stuffing.
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Now, that looks like enough. I'm going
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to try to get it all kind of a single
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layer as much as I can. That way, the
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air, the heat from the oven can get all
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around it and dry them out. We're going
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to place our oven at 300°.
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Now, what I'm going to do is go ahead
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and put this in the oven.
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And it'll be in there until it gets up
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to 300. And then it'll sit there for
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about 30 to 45 minutes. Just give one a
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check and make sure it's nice and dried
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out. All right, the next step is we are
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going to cook up sausage. I have one
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pound of pork sausage. Now, I'm using
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the water burger here. If you've seen my
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Aldi haul a few days ago, you'll
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recognize that I bought that there. So,
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we're going to put it into a large pan
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and we'll start breaking that up,
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browning it up.
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Okay. This smells delicious. Have y'all
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ever had a taquito from Waterburger?
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Mhm.
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Yeah. That smells delicious. We're going
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to turn our heat onto a medium high
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heat. Start browning this up.
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I'm going to use my meat masher.
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Okay. Now, while this sausage is doing
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that, we're going to go over here and
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let's talk about those right there.
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We're going to be bulking up our sausage
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apple stuffing with some celery. Nice
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crisp celery.
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big yellow onion that we'll dice up. And
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then two apples.
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Now, I'm using a Granny Smith apple and
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a red apple. This is an envy apple. You
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can use whatever apples you like for
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that. This will give a nice tartness to
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it, a nice sweetness to it, and some
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nice color to it because I'm going to
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keep the skins on it. So, we'll chop
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this up.
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Now, I've got about three ribs of
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celery. I just washed it off. I'm going
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to cut some of the ends off here.
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And I went into the inside of that
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celery to get those leaves out of there
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because they are so pretty and they will
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look really good in the dish. So, what
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I'm going to do is just go lengthwise
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and just kind of cut strips
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so we can get nice dices going on.
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I don't really want a lot of chunks in
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there. So, everything will be nice and
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small.
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Now, you can add as much celery as you
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want to this dish. I'm putting it in
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there.
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Watch your fingers. Always tuck them in.
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Let's get all those leaves in there.
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Woo! Look at that. Yum.
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We'll scoop that on over.
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We're multitasking. We're cooking our
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sausage and cutting our vegetables. Oh,
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that celery smells like the holidays.
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All right, let the apple since we're
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keeping the skin on, I've already
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cleaned them off. I'm going to cut off
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all four sides of the apple up to the
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core.
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And then we'll cut them about the same
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size as we did the celery.
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And then we'll just turn it around. Cut
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through that.
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This will add a nice sweetness to the
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dish.
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Little burst of flavor and juice.
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All right. Once I get this done here,
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I will check on the sausage and then
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I'll cut up the other apple.
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Just keep breaking it up into pieces.
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Now, I'm only doing half of the green
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apple. I got to looking at all the
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apples here,
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and I don't want it to be too appleley.
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Now, I'm going to take my big yellow
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onion. We're going to get that diced up
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also.
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So, big large yellow onion. Or you can
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do
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two medium onions.
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Or if you don't like a lot of onion in
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it,
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you can do like half a medium onion.
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Just chop it in half.
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Run your knife through. Find the lines
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of the onion. You can just follow it
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pretty closely to it anyway.
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Keep it all together. Turn it around and
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run your knife through it. And then you
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got nice dices.
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There you go. Just like that. Woo.
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And again, I think I may because this
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was really large onion, I may just stick
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with that right there. Maybe do half
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more. There we go.
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You know, this is your stuffing. The
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onion will cook down.
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All right, we got all that ready.
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Look at that sausage. I can see the
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seasonings in there in the sausage. Can
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you see that? Oh, yeah. Nice and
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flavored.
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All right, we're going to remove the
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sausage from the pan and place it on a
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plate.
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All right, we're going to place the pan
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back on our burner. We're going to add a
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couple of tablespoons of butter to the
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skillet. We need lots of flavor. It is
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the holidays, so when I say a couple,
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I'm probably going to put half a stick
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in there.
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And we'll start melting that down.
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There we go.
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Get that going.
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This is where we're going to sauté all
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of our vegetables. Here we got the
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celery, the apples, and the onions.
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We'll let the rest of the butter melt as
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we get our vegetables in.
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All right, let's add the celery,
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the apples. We're going to put it all
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in.
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All right. There we go.
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There we go. Yeah. We're going to sauté
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this down till the apples are nice and
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soft, the celery is nice and soft, and
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the onions are.
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It'll take a few minutes. Then we're
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going to start adding some flavor to it.
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All right. I'm going to start seasoning
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up
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with some rosemary leaves.
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There we go. I'm going to put in some
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ground sage.
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It's the holidays.
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I'm going to put in some poultry
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seasoning.
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It'll make it smell like the holidays
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for sure. In there. Like that. We're
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going to put in some black pepper.
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And then we'll add in some salt.
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Flavor everything up.
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All right, I pulled the breadcrumbs out
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of the oven. They are very dry and I
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still had 10 minutes to go on these. So,
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just give them a check every so often
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and make sure that you know they're just
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dry enough to absorb all the liquid. So,
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that's good because then we don't have
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any more time in the oven on these. The
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rack helps because it brings that air up
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underneath of them and keeps them nice
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and crisp. So, we're going to hang on to
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those for just a minute until our
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apples, celery, and onion are softened.
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All right, look how soft these look.
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Those are nice.
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Make sure you just kind of pick up an
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apple, give it a taste, see if it's
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seasoned well. If you need to add a
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little bit more salt, you can. or some
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more poultry seasoning, whatever you
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like flavored in here. If you want to
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add some fresh herbs, you can do that.
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Chop up some fresh rosemary, thyme, and
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sage. Maybe some parsley, you can put
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that in there. But, you know, there's a
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lot of color going on in here. What
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we're going to do now, we're going to
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take our sausage that we precooked, and
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we're going to place it into the apple,
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celery, and onions.
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All
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right, we're going to go ahead and turn
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off the burner. Now, I'm going to add
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half of the breadrumbs there.
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Now, if you're using the already
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breadcrumbs, the stuffing that you can
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get from the store, they're going to be
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seasoned already. So, just be careful
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with that.
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Now, this is where we're going to
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determine what we need. So, I'm going to
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mix this together.
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And then, we're going to get some
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chicken broth and pour it all over it.
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Now, I had picked up this Simply Nature
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chicken broth. It's low sodium. Got this
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from Aldi. We did have a haul that we
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did the other day. Y'all can go check it
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out. So, this is four cups. I'm going to
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put two cups of that in. And we'll just
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work with it.
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There we go.
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Make sure the breadrumbs are nice and
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coated. Then we'll add the rest. Get
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those mixed in and see what we got going
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on.
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Just keep mixing. You want those
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breadrumbs nice and softened by the
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broth.
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I'll add some more of the breadrumbs.
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It's really best if you dry out your
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breadcrumbs. If you try to use it soft
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right out of a package, it won't work
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very well. It won't absorb the liquids
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and it'll just be kind of a gummy mess
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really. So, it's really important. And
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it took the time to dry these crumbs out
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as it did to make the mixture. So, it
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all came together pretty good.
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All right, let's add some more.
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That's what I have. We'll get that all
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mixed in.
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I'm going to take half a stick of butter
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and I'm going to melt it. We'll put that
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in.
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All right, we're going to get that all
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mixed in.
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It's the holidays. It's all about the
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flavor.
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All right, I'm going to bet I am not
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going to need any more liquid.
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All right, we're going to grease a
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baking dish with some butter.
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So, I'm just going to use the stick that
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I had, the wrapper, and just go in.
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You can use non-stick cooking spray if
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you want to. Also, we're just going to
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keep it from sticking.
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All right, we're going to take the
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mixture and we're going to put it into
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our baking dish.
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Nice pretty casserole dish you're going
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to serve it from.
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[Music]
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All right, I'm just going to kind of
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evenly place everything. I'm not going
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to smush too much. I really want some
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texture to this dish.
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We'll press it down, but not too much.
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Look at that.
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That's gorgeous for your holiday table.
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We're going to bake this at 350° in a
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preheated oven for about 30 to 35
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minutes covered. And then we'll remove
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the foil and then we will cook it an
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additional 15 to 20 minutes to kind of
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get it nice and crispy on the top. Who
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would not want this on their holiday
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table?
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I'm going to put this on a plate and I'm
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going to give this a try for you. I
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can't wait to dig in, taste those
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succulent, sweet apples with this recipe
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here.
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All right, there's my bite. I'm just
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kidding. I am trying this for you,
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though. But
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I got the celery, the apple on there,
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the sausage, the bread. Oh, all those
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flavors.
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M.
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Wow,
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that is delicious.
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This might be the first thing that's
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going to disappear off your table.
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This right here.
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All right, you guys. Give me a thumbs up
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