Thanksgiving!

A restaurant can be a very special place to people, it can remind you of special dates, be a place to have important business meetings, catch up with friends on a monthly basis, or even let a person know how much you care for them. Well, it’s time to revisit the place that taught us how to love and once again make it a part of those special holidays in our life and allow it to bring joy to those close to us. Yes, we are once again making White Castle a part of our holiday traditions. This time it’s Thanksgiving. Yeah, it’s a week or couple late, it would have been a lot more interesting when it went on, but I suppose late is better than never, and who would want to miss a White Castle story?

Reading the internets a couple days before the great American feast I came across this post over at Slashfood that explained to the world how to make some stuffing for your holiday meal using one of the holy grails of fast food, the White Castle Hamburger. Sure, White Castle might be one of those places that you think of when you think of Valentines Day (see that link above if you don’t remember that post) but now we have a way to make a traditional dish out of it and bring it to the table for everyone to eat.

So how do we start? With the burgers of course.

It says a burger a pound for your turkey, we were having a 20(ish) pound turkey so we have 20 burgers. It was quite hard to resist eating them but they had a job to do.

Step 2) Step 1 was buying the burgers. Step 2, rip those delicious squares of sex on a bun (sans ketchup and pickles) into nice crumb sized bits.

Next up we’ll need a bunch of celery. 3 cups for our meal here. We’re doubling the recipe from the White Castle site because we have twice as much turkey to be eating later on.

That’s the hardest part of this whole thing, chopping the celery. Now white it may be a far cry from chopping broccoli it’s still a feat that deserves recognition. I even had Mr. Chop Chop get involved, that sly little chef dude you see in the picture there.

Next up we add some chicken broth, thyme, sage and pepper…

1) The sage isn’t pictured because I didn’t get any until the next day. 2) I didn’t use that pepper. I realized it was the wrong stuff right before I was about to put it in. Use black pepper, not that mixed stuff.

2.5) Add it all into the bowl.

3) Mix it all up.

Hooray. Almost done.

Now take it to your turkey and stuff away.

Let it cook, let it get those turkey juices flowing in it. In a whole bunch of hours all that’s left to do is put it out to serve, let people try it out, and enjoy.

And there it is in it’s half eaten goodness. I was sure to not tell anyone what I was making it with, I am sure that people might have a bit of a pre-conceived notion about eating stuffing made out of White Castle, not everyone shares the same love of it as us here.

In all this is actually a really good stuffing recipe. Everyone who had some commented on how good it tasted, including 78west’s own PatboyX and Rukia. It’s a good conversation piece for your Thanksgiving Day dinners and will give those who try it something to talk about.

Next year give it a shot and let us know what you think, you know, if you remember about it. Maybe if I’m still around by then I’ll like back here, but until then, ciao.