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Recipes you'll gobble up

Students share their favorite holiday recipes

Kate Lams

Issue date: 11/20/07 Section: Entertainment
This article was originally published Nov. 21, 2006.

Visions of turkey, cranberries, green beans, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pies fill the heads of students preparing for Thanksgiving Day feasts. But this year, challenge yourself to stop dreaming, throw on an apron and get in the kitchen.

Three CU students share their secret recipes that your Thanksgiving Day companions, whether friends or family, are sure to enjoy.

"My favorite Thanksgiving Day recipe is the stuffing that my grandmom and mother make every year," said Tinsley Buffington, a junior communication major. "It's not an exact recipe, because you have to do a lot of tasting as you go."

Buffington's family stuffing

Ingredients:
1 loaf of bread
1 onion
1/2 pound of uncased sausage
1 green apple
3 eggs
1 can of water chestnuts
3/4 cup raisins
1 stalk celery
1 stick of butter
Salt
Pepper
Sage
Thyme
Parsley

Cube the loaf of bread and cook at 250 F for 30 minutes.

Then sauté the onion with the sausage and celery. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Add the chopped apple, 3/4 cup raisins and can of water chestnuts to the onion, sausage and celery mixture.

Scramble the eggs and add sage, thyme and parsley to taste.

Finally, mix the sausage mixture and egg mixture with the baked bread, stuff the turkey and keep leftovers warm in the oven.

"Their stuffing is the best part of the meal, especially with all that turkey fat," Buffington said.

Jessica Grace Bruner, a junior English major, said her favorite Thanksgiving recipe is from the South.

"It's called Dunbar, and it's a family recipe," Bruner said. "It sounds a little weird, but I'm from South Carolina, and they love it down there."

Bruner's Dunbar

Ingredients:
1 large bag of macaroni noodles
2 chopped tomatoes
1 block of cheddar cheese
Some bacon grease
Tomato paste
Salt
Pepper

Prepare the dish by combining all the ingredients in a casserole pan, with salt and pepper to taste. Then bake it for 30 to 45 minutes at 350 F.
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