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What We Call Stuffing: Challah, Mushroom, and Celery
Author Notes: Our holiday entertaining guest list includes a number of vegetarians. I make every effort to have many Thanksgiving standards in a vegetarian form. In this case, I use homemade challah, cut it into cubes, and then let the bread cubes sit out on the counter for a couple of days to get a little stale. I also use only mushroom stems in this stuffing, just as a matter of economy. The caps are sauteed in butter and dusted with cayenne, then set aside for mushroom gravy, another vegetarian option. - MrsWheelbarrow
Food52 Review: No one would ever guess that this is a vegetarian stuffing, and why should it matter? It's rich yet light and teeming with fresh herbs -- a wonderful dish for everyone. Most memorable of all is its texture -- the challah soaks up the vegetable broth and melted butter and then puffs up in the oven, creating a stuffing with a thick, crisp top and fluffy, almost pudding-like interior. We baked it in a large cast-iron skillet because we didn't have right casserole dish. The stuffing didn't suffer a bit -- in fact, it looked like something out of Little House on the Prairie. - A&M - A&M
Serves 12
- 1 large loaf of challah or brioche
- 2 cups celery, diced
- 2 cups onion, diced
- 2 cups cremini mushroom, diced
- 8-10 sprigs thyme, chopped
- 3 sprigs rosemary, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
- 3 cups vegetable stock, preferably homemade
- 3 ounces butter
- 4 ounces melted butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- Cut the challah into 1" cubes. Leave the cubes out on a parchment lined sheet pan on the counter to get stale, at least overnight, and preferably 2 days.
- Melt 3 oz. of butter in a large heavy saute pan. Saute the onions until wilted, add the herbs, celery and mushrooms and cook until just slightly cooked through.
- In a large bowl, combine bread cubes, vegetables, melted butter and vegetable stock, and salt and pepper. Test for seasoning and adjust.
- Press stuffing into a large buttered baking dish. Cover with buttered parchment, and then foil. At this point, the stuffing can be held for several hours, but should be at room temperature before baking.
- Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes, the last 10-15 minutes without the foil and parchment, to crisp the surface.
- Your Best Thanksgiving Stuffing Contest Finalist!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Vegetarian Holiday Side
Tags: can be made ahead, comfort food, family, hearty, Holidays, stir fry, Vegetarian
Comments (91) Questions (2)
4 months ago Tara
Made this over the weekend and while the flavor was great, the stuffing was really, really wet. I'm guessing my "large" loaf of brioche wasn't quite large enough so the bread:broth ratio was off. Will definitely try again with less broth!
4 months ago Joe Deane
Robyn, I use olive oil with excellent results.
4 months ago Robyn
Can I use olive oil or something other than butter?
4 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Hi Robyn, I understand the desire to reduce the fats in this recipe, but the butter really makes it. Because there is no meat, sausage, oyster or bacon, the stuffing really requires the flavor of butter. Nevertheless, if you want to try it with all or part olive oil, give it a try and please let us know!
5 months ago EmilyC
I made your dressing for the first time this year -- so, so good. I love how simple yet complex it is. And I love how generous you are with the butter -- really makes a difference in the taste! It's going to be my new go-to recipe for the holidays, so thank you!
4 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Emily! This makes me very happy.
4 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Emily! This makes me so happy! Especially now that we've met in person.
5 months ago Debora Morgan
This is the second year I've been making your recipe and I LOVE it! The best stuffing I've ever had :) I always use shallots for the onions, portabellas for the mushrooms, and sometimes add panchetta. Thanks for sharing!
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I'm thrilled! And love the substitutions and additions. This year, I rehydrated about 1/2 cup of dried porcini and added the liquid and the chopped mushrooms. It was terrific.
5 months ago Gabbie Tanella
I made this stuffing for Thanksgiving yesterday and it was a huge hit! My family was skeptical (the typical yet uninspiring "Stovetop Stuffing" is the only stuffing they've known) but they loved it! I purchased two packaged challah rolls from Whole Foods and used 1.5 of it; I also used half the amount of stock (didn't have vegetable, but used homemade bone broth) and it was nothing short of excellent. While making it, I did notice that there was more butter included than I'm used to, but after I tasting it that idea escaped my mind. I would definitely make this again... maybe with a little less butter but we'll see ;) Thanks for such an awesome recipe; it made my family happy and that makes me happy!
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I'm happy, too! I'm so glad you liked it.
5 months ago Joe Deane
I used olive oil and light chicken stock and stuffed a 15lb bird. Worked very well. Also I used sage for my main herb.
5 months ago RuthF
We loved it as well but I think it would also be delicious with a little less butter.
5 months ago Joe Deane
I would put the dressing in the turkey without baking the dressing first. Is that correct?
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Yes, uncooked stuffing goes inside the turkey.
5 months ago Lani Turner
Can I cook this in a slow cooker (crockpot)? How would I need to change the recipe?
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I'm not sure you would get the nice crispy topping --- I've never made stuffing in a crockpot!
5 months ago allison williams
My local whole foods has challah loaves that are 15 oz each. This feels like very little bread (1 oz per person). I'm guessing I should use more challah, but not sure how to judge how much.. is there an amount of 'wetness' I should go for?
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I make my own challah and each loaf is about 2 pounds, so plan on two of the WF challah for one recipe.
5 months ago Joe Deane
Could you stuff a turkey with this if you wanted to?
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I see no reason why not.
5 months ago Christy Dunn
Do you use salted or unsalted butter? I'm really looking forward to making this for Thanksgiving this year! Thanks!
5 months ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I always use unsalted butter.
5 months ago Belle
Thank you for your response. One other question: Do you think I can make this a few days ahead of time and bake on the day of?
5 months ago Cathy Barrow
I make all the components up to three days in advance then pull it together on Thanksgiving.
5 months ago Rhonda35
As long as you aren't putting it in the turkey ahead of time, you're fine. You can assemble it, cover, store in fridge and bake off on Thanksgiving day. (Bring it to room temperature first if you want the timing in the recipe to be accurate.)
5 months ago Joe Deane
I would put the dressing in the turkey without baking the dressing first. Is that correct?
5 months ago Belle
Hi I am planning to make this for Thanksgiving. Can you tell me what you mean by 1 large loaf of challah? Our bakery has the large round and also the long braided. Which one of these should I buy and also should I have the baker slice it or do you mean cube the challah with its original thickness. Thank you.
5 months ago Cathy Barrow
Either if those loaves should work well, but I would use the long braided for more crust. Get it sliced, then cube the slices... It's easier and saves a step!
over 1 year ago Lorey21
I made this stuffing for our family Christmas dinner. I subbed portabella for the cremini mushrooms, but otherwise followed the recipe. It surpassed my expectations & was by far the best stuffing I've ever made.
Thank-you MrsWheelbarrow !
over 1 year ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Thank you, Lorey21. I'm so glad you made and enjoyed the stuffing. We love it, too, and I'll admit to making small batches throughout the year. Happy New Year!
over 1 year ago JadeTree
Thanksgiving success! This was tender, herbaceous and crisp on top. Yum. Did make some changes. To my surprise, our matriarch does not like mushrooms (?!) so omitted those and added toasted pecans (Southerners, here) and sautéed pears (about five smallish Boscs). It was delicious and very gracious about changes, as you say! Now, I do think I will make it with the mushrooms another day to give it more heft. The pears were meting and sweet and I recommend them, but I have to say that I want to make this completely savory next time, just because. Thank you!
over 1 year ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
I'm thrilled you liked the stuffing, and think the pear/pecan additions sound delicious!
over 1 year ago sega10028
Hi -- I made this this weekend but it didn't puff up at all. I used brioche instead of challah (read online that they're similar), and dried the cubes for 4 days beforehand. I used about a loaf and a half (the loaves looked just like the braided challah loaves in the US). Used 3 cups of broth as directed, but when I added it, the bread became quite mushy. Any guess as to why it didn't puff? I'm wondering if I had too high a liquid-bread ratio. Besides that, the flavor was perfect. Just trying to figure out how to adjust it for the next time :)
over 1 year ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
My guess is the brioche was not as large as a challah, so the ratio was off. You may need one and a half brioche? Or less broth?
over 1 year ago Tara Offenberger
Do you think adding some TART apples would be a nice touch?
over 1 year ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Hi Tara, I am not a fan of apples and mushrooms together, so I might do one or the other. But that's just me! This is a great stuffing that takes to adding, subtracting and multiplying ingredients.
over 1 year ago ChocolateDiva
If you wanted to make ahead perhaps after the 45-55 minutes you could take it out of the oven and finish the final 10-15, which of course would be longer from the frig, the next day. What do you think??
over 1 year ago
Cathy is a trusted source on Pickling/Preserving.
Worth a try! It's a very forgiving stuffing. I chop the veg the day ahead and find that putting it together is very quick, so I've never bothered making it the day before

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Notes and comments — October 31, 2012
Time for another catch-all post. First and saddest — one of the earliest great commenters on this blog, and a beloved figure in the Boston-area database community, was Dan Weinreb, whom I had known since some Symbolics briefings in the early 1980s. He passed away recently, much much much too young. Looking back for a couple of examples — even if you've never heard of him before, I see that Dan 's 2009 comment on Tokutek is still interesting today, and so is a post on his own blog disagreeing with some of my choices in terminology.
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Informatica, Splunk, and IBM are all public companies, and correspondingly reticent to talk about product futures. Hence, anything I might suggest about product futures from any of them won't be terribly detailed, and even the vague generalities are "the Good Lord willin' an' the creek don' rise".
Never let a rising creek overflow your safe harbor.
1. Hadoop can be an awesome ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) execution engine; it can handle huge jobs and perform a great variety of transformations. (Indeed, MapReduce was invented to run giant ETL jobs.) Thus, if one offers a development-plus-execution stack for ETL processes, it might seem appealing to make Hadoop an ETL execution option. And so:
- I've already posted that BI-plus-light-ETL vendors Pentaho and Datameer are using Hadoop in that way.
- Informatica will be using Hadoop as an execution option too.
Informatica told me about other interesting Hadoop-related plans as well, but I'm not sure my frieNDA allows me to mention them at all.
IBM, however, is standing aside. Specifically, IBM told me that it doesn't see the point of doing the same thing, as its ETL engine — presumably derived from the old Ascential product line — is already parallel and performant enough.
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To a first approximation, HCatalog is the thing that will make Hadoop play nicely with all kinds of ETLT (Extract/Transform/Load/Transform). However, HCatalog is both less and more than that:
- Less, because some of the basic features people expect in HCatalog may well wind up in other projects instead.
- More, in that HCatalog could (also) be regarded as a manifestation of efforts to make Hadoop/Hive more like a DBMS.
The base use case for HCatalog is:
- You have an HDFS file, and know its record format.
- You write DDL (Data Description Language) to create a virtual table whose columns look a lot like the HDFS file's record fields. The language for this is HiveQL, Hive's SQL-like language.
- You interact with that table in any of variety of ways (batch operations only), including but not limited to:
- Hive.
- Pig.
- ETL tools such as Talend.
- DBMS integrations such as Teradata Aster's SQL-H.
Major variants on that include: Read more
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Juggling analytic databases
I'd like to survey a few related ideas:
- Enterprises should each have a variety of different analytic data stores.
- Vendors — especially but not only IBM and Teradata — are acknowledging and marketing around the point that enterprises should each have a number of different analytic data stores.
- In addition to having multiple analytic data management technology stacks, it is also desirable to have an agile way to spin out multiple virtual or physical relational data marts using a single RDBMS. Vendors are addressing that need.
- Some observers think that the real essence of analytic data management will be in data integration, not the actual data management.
Here goes. Read more
|Categories: Data warehousing, Database diversity, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Exadata, Greenplum, Hadoop, Hortonworks, IBM and DB2, Informatica, Netezza, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, Workload management
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Everybody's putting integration services in the cloud
Both Pervasive Software and Cast Iron Systems told me recently of fairly pure cloud offerings. In this, they're joining Informatica, which started offering Salesforce.com integration-as-a-service back in 2006. So far as I can tell, the three vendors are doing somewhat different things. Read more
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Cast Iron Systems focuses on SaaS data integration
When I wrote about data integration vendor Cast Iron Systems a year ago, its core message was "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity." Supporting points included:
- An appliance delivery format.
- Lots of heuristics for automatic mapping and quick set-up. E.g., Cast Iron claims that 70% of a typical SAP-Salesforce.com connection can be done straight out of the box.
- The absence of data cleaning/transformation features that might complicate things.
Cast Iron still believes in all that.
Even so, its messaging has changed a bit. Cast Iron now bills itself, in the first sentence of its press release boilerplate, as "the fastest growing SaaS integration appliance vendor." And when I talked with marketing chief Simon Peel today, the only use cases we discussed were connections between SaaS and on-premises apps. Read more
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Intelligent Enterprise's list of 12/36/48 vendors
I'm getting a flood of press releases today, because many of the companies I write about were selected to Intelligent Enterprise's list of 12 most influential vendors plus 36 more to watch in the areas Intelligent Enterprise covers (which seems to be pretty much the analytics-related parts of what I write about here and on Text Technologies). It looks like a pretty reasonable list, although I think they forced the issue in some of the small analytics vendors they selected, and of course anybody can quibble with some of the omissions.
Among the companies they cited, you can find topical categories here for IBM (and Cognos), Informatica, Microsoft, Netezza, Oracle, SAP/Business Objects (both), SAS, and Teradata; QlikTech; Cast Iron, Coral8, DATAllegro, HP, ParAccel, and StreamBase; and Software AG. On Text Technologies you'll find categories for some of the same vendors, plus Attensity, Clarabridge, and Google. There also are categories for some of these vendors on the Monash Report.
Wrinkles in the Informatica versus Business Objects patent litigation
Business Objects recently lost a patent lawsuit to Informatica in the area of data integration. While I was at the Business Objects conference, I asked about it, and was told in effect "It's no big deal. In fact, the monetary award was reduced. Anyhow, we shipped a non-infringing version within 12 days after the decision, and sales are rolling along." I then reflected that answer back to Informatica's stellar analyst relations guy Chas Kielt. He checked with corporate counsel, and sent back the detailed clarification below. Since I got my Business Objects answers from a couple of caught-off-guard non-lawyer French guys, while Chas got a careful explanation of an American court's judgment from an American lawyer, I'm inclined to think that in any details where they might conflict, Chas' version is more likely to be accurate.
There's a more substantive disagreement as to whether the features deleted from BOBJ's product due to the injunction are actually important in the marketplace. I'm looking into that subject, and hope to post about it in the near future. Read more
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The boom in Salesforce.com integration
SaaS integration is in the air.
- I recently talked with Pervasive Software about their data integration line. A large part of Pervasive's new business is Salesforce.com integration, including at some big-name software vendors as customer/partner switch-hitters.
- I just rechecked my notes from my January talk with Cast Iron Systems. A large part of Cast Iron's new business is also integration with Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and other SaaS vendors.
- Informatica keeps putting out press releases about Salesforce.com integration, most recently by offering replication in SaaS form itself.
But of course this makes sense. Without good data integration, SaaS applications would be pretty useless, at least at large and medium-sized enterprises.
|Categories: Cast Iron Systems, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Informatica, Pervasive Software, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Informatica's SaaS/Outsourcing story
The coolest part of Informatica's visit today was the new SaaS story. Naturally, they're starting with Salesforce.com, but they hope to use the technology they're developing for Salesforce with other SaaS vendors, with Business Process Outsourcers, and with anybody else who needs robust cross-enterprise data integration. I don't actually think there's a lot of hard technology there; nonetheless, somebody had to build it. And they apparently have, in two main parts.
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Based on the projected path of Tropical Storm Dolly, the U.S. Census Bureau today calculated that about 1.5 million people could feel the storm's effects as it makes landfall along the Texas coast. The National Hurricane Center predicts that Dolly could arrive near the southern most part of Texas by late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
A hurricane warning is in effect for the Texas coast from Brownsville to Corpus Christi. A hurricane warning means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours. The storm, currently in the Gulf of Mexico, is about 230 miles southeast of Brownsville, with a population of more than 172,000.
According to the Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey, the median housing value in Brownsville (the county seat of Cameron County) is $68,500. Nearly 60 percent of the homes were built before 1990. The median household income is about $26,000, and nearly 41 percent of the population live in poverty. Additionally, about 12 percent of the 50,000 occupied homes are without access to a vehicle.
According to the Census Bureau's 2006 County Business Patterns, there are 6,353 businesses in Cameron County with paid employees, employing 95,671 workers, with about $2.1 billion in total annual payroll. The sector with the most businesses in Cameron County is health care and social assistance, representing 919 businesses, and employing some 28,378 people with a total annual payroll of $659 million.
As the 2008 hurricane season progresses, the Census Bureau will continue to post information on its Hurricane Data and Emergency Preparedness Web page <http://www.census.gov/newsroom/emergencies/>.


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Lillian Walker pleaded guilty Monday in a Peach County courtroom to two counts of murder and one count of armed robbery.
The 59-year old woman was charged with killing her 85-year-old aunt, Lillian Graves, and her 65-year old cousin Agnes Stewart, in July 2009.
Walker allegedly stabbed the two women to death at their home at 101 Daniel Drive in Fort Valley.
Last April, District Attorney David Cooke told 13WMAZ that Walker would not face the death penalty. He reached that conclusion after discussing the situation with family members of the victims, Cooke said.
In exchange for removing the death penalty, Cooke said Walker agreed to accept the possible sentence of life without parole if she's convicted of the murders.
He said she also agreed to let the trial judge, not a jury, decide her guilt or innocence.
District Attorney David Cooke said Judge Ed Ennis imposed a sentence of two consecutive life sentences around 11:20 Monday morning.
"Effectively it is life without parole because Walker is in poor health and won't be parole eligible for 60 years," Cooke said.
While some of the victims family members objected to the death penalty, Cooke said that wasn't their primary reason for getting it removed.
"They wanted justice and they wanted it soon," Cooke said. "You have to understand that they have been waiting four years for a trial, and if we continued on the track we were on, there's no telling when we would have gone to trial."
The Walker case marks the second time that Cooke has removed the death sentence from a pending murder case since he took office in January.
He removed it in March of this year in the Stephen McDaniels case. McDaniels, a Mercer Law School graduate, is accused of murdering and dismembering the body of Lauren Giddings, also a Mercer law graduate.
When he took that action, Cooke said the Giddings family asked him to remove the death penalty from the case.
Cooke said he doesn't oppose the death penalty and would use it when he thinks it appropriate. He said the wishes of a victim's family members would be considered when making those decisions.


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Lorraine Martin, general manager for Lockheed's F-35 program, says that one of her measures for the relationship's status was the negotiation for the low-rate, initial production Lot 6 and 7 contracts. Talks for the LRIP 5 deal took nearly a year and got publicly contentious between the government and former Lockheed Martin CEO Bob Stevens. LRIPs 6/7 took half as long to ink and resulted in Lockheed Martin assuming all liability for cost overruns to the airframes, a first and a goal Bogdan was adamant about 12 years into the program. And, Martin says, this is the first deal in which the F-35A's target cost is under $100 million.
Having metaphorically changed their relationship status on Facebook over the past year, the team is taking the relationship to the next level and moving in together -- in a manner of speaking. Lockheed Martin is offering space in its glitzy Fighter Development Center in Crystal City (a business park full of government ccontractors near the Pentagon) to house the "Cost War Room," Bogdan said during his Sept. 17 speech at the AFA conference.
CEO's of each of the top F-35 contractors -- Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and Northrop Grumman -- to put people in the War Room with the sole purpose of working together to wring cost out of the program. Not only is the F-35's cost notoriously twice that of estimates early in the program, a $1 trillion + figure released by the Pentagon for lifecycle cost continues to give customers sticker shock.
LRIP 7 is the first contract in which the projected price of F-35 is under $100 million (read Av Week's article on that development here). And, over the next five years beyond LRIP 7 at 35 aircraft, the production rate is expected to double, Bogdan said. More than 50% of the projected increase in ramp rate is due to orders from allies, Bogdan says. This momentum is intended to offer the market a "fifth generation capability at 4th generation price" by 2019, he says. He did not specify a unit cost, but in a talk less than a year ago, he cited a goal of between $80-90 million per aircraft (read our piece here). Time will clearly be the judge of the success or failure of that goal.
Likewise, however, the War Room will be targeting the sustainment cost for F-35. Bogdan acknowledged that his office's estimate for lifecycle cost for the U.S. program -- including Navy, Marine Corps and USAF jets -- at $857 billion, far lower than the older estimate. But, the Pentagon has yet to codify that into the selected acquisition report (SAR), or program of record. The ongoing debate on sustainment cost in the U.S. has some foreign customers worried that they could be investing in a money pit.
But, Bogdan says the program office is now planning to work with each foreign customer to come up with a lifecycle estimate based on its unique policies and procedures to address such concerns.
The Cost War Room will consist of cost analysts and supply chain experts from each of the top companies (though BAE was not mentioned) collocated and with the singular goal of addressing price. Bogdan says he is "cautiously optimistic" that this effort will produce positive results. He cited success in using this concept by the Virginia Class Submarine and Typhoon programs.
Just as an aside, I'm guessing most of our audience remembers the famous line in Dr. Strangelove. In the War Room. "Gentlemen, You can't fight in here, this is the War Room." Hoping that there are some good fights in the Cost War Room, and that taxpayers will see the results.
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April 25, 2014
Governor Snyder Gives State of the State Address
By Peter Neumann
LANSING, Mich. (My TV20 News at 10) --- 'Comeback state' Governor Rick Snyder takes to Michigan TVs and the internet tonight at 7 in his fourth annual State of the State speech.
In his Lansing address tonight, Snyder will surely tout Michigan's rebounding economy under his administration. Challenges the Governor is likely to address promoting Detroit's recovery through public-private partnerships, including the state kicking in $330-million to help bring Detroit out of bankruptcy, dealing with the pension plan crisis, improving the state's infrastructure – meaning roads and bridges primarily, and immigration.
At 7 PM, you can watch the Governor's address live right here: