Dressing that looks like dog food....what is it?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

My grandma was a terrible cook who boiled everything to death. She was from Mississippi.

She made some kind of horrible dressing for the turkey that was grainy, sickly red and looked like canned dog food.

Any idea what this abomination was???




Me, I use Pepperidge Farm dressing mix in the big plastic bags, sauteed onions and hardboiled eggs.

[Lasher]

1. It was canned dog food.

Sometimes we're better off not knowing these things.

[HopeHoops]

2. Ken-L Ration Select Cuts

Yummy stuff, that!

[Bertha Venation]

4. jingle

my dog's better than your dog
my dog's better than yours
my dog's better 'cause he eats Ken-L Ration
my dog's better than yours

Thanks for the earworm! :)

[surrealAmerican]

3. Did it have oysters in it?

I can't imagine why it would have been red though.

[hippywife]

5. I would give anything

to eat anything my grandmother cooked again.

[Chan790]

6. My grandma couldn't cook for the most part...

I do miss the grape leaves and her mashed potatoes but the rest of it was grin and bear it, at best.

[Capn Sunshine]

10. me too. My grandma pretty much is responsible for my restaurant career

What a fabulous cook. And hostess. She was what they called a "socialite" on the West Side (L.A.)
She was an inspiration and I miss her so, especially around the Holidays :cry:

[Shell Beau]

12. That is how I feel about my great-grandma. She died when

I was 18, so I got a good many of years of her food. Nothing like it on the planet. She didn't use recipes or measures, she made it up as she went. The best banana pudding ever. Even homemade vanilla wafers. Her fried chicken??? OMG! :9

[SteppingRazor]

7. It was probably a combination of chicken or turkey stock, giblets...

and maybe some flour for thickening.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Yeah I think she ground up the guts and used them.

I guess that's what would make it red...gizzards.

I would cook the neck and gutz and feed it to the dog.

[Skittles]

9. it was dressing

she just used turkey blood for gravy

[Shell Beau]

11. Ok, I was born and raised here in MS, and I have no clue

what she served. Whatever it was, I have never seen it on any menu around here. Sounds disgusting.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Yep I avoided eating it.

She and my grandpa were both from around Kosciusko, MS, (Sallis and Vaiden) and went to Mississippi A&M and became Extension Agents in MS, and then moved to Texas.

We had dinner table battles constantly. She thought she was cooking 3 big meals a day for a bunch of farmhands. Between my not liking her boiled to death stuff and my food allergies, we had huge battles.

Fortunately my mom was a good cook, but she was always eating raw bell peppers, raw purple onions and raw tomatoes and trying to get me to eat them. I am allergic to all those things.