Praise God Praise God!!! God is Good all the time. Like you said we have so much to be thankful for. Your son is a miracle from the Lord & has a new lease on life. Totally awesome. Will continue to keep him in Prayer. God has his heart and his back!!. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am an organ donor. I was born on September 17th 1960. I worked 41 years at the same place and 13 days after I retired, I found myself in the hospital only to discover I needed a heart transplant…. Long story short, they pulled 1972ml of fluid from around my heart, and with prayer and a miracle from God, I left the hospital and have not been back… so God bless you and your son. My grandmother made dressing close to your recipe and I miss cooking with her. My oldest daughter and her family are hosting Thanksgiving… but I will make your dressing to take with us. Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless you and family. Thank you, Ray
Your family is so blessed. I am so happy that he is doing so well. My son has been battling cancer for 8 years and unfortunately he passed away the day after his 52 birthday. My life will never be the same again but I know he is no longer struggling with this awful disease. He never complained and I know he went thru what he did to stay with us as long as he could. I will miss him every day of my remaining life. Cherish every second. D
You brought me to happy tears. God indeed gives us what we need without even asking for. I’m almost 60 but chose to be an organ donor since I got my drivers license at age 16. I have no family left and watching your videos reminds me of my mom and grandma. May God bless you always. Live in Christ, Todd 🙏🏻❤️😃
Ty for sharing love the dressing I never put boiled eggs in my gravy but going to try it out later on good to here of your son❤❤❤ God Bless you and yours Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
i once accidentally used the puree blade on my onions and it blended them so fine it looked like an onion smoothie! i went ahead and poured the onion smoothie into my stuffing and it turned out the best i've ever made. i guess it releases ALL the onion flavor. i've done it that way ever since!
😂onion smoothie is funny but I wondered if hers would be an onion puree' and how would it affect the taste. It's funny how you can discover a masterpiece by accident 😊
I had a roommate who HATED onion so much she said she was allergic to it. The truth was that she didn’t like the texture of onions. One day I was making dressing and I knew I couldn’t make it without onions. So I put the onion In the blender with the liquid. She raved about how delicious it was! When I told her it had onion and how I did it, she was so excited because she found a way to enjoy the flavor and avoid the texture. I never diced onions for my dressing again!
I saute my onions & celery. I dont like that raw taste in my dressing. I also use cream of chicken soup & chicken broth. I use very little sage MeMe. Poultry seasning with other seasonings are enough. You can make me your dressing anytime MeMe!❤😊 Praise God for totally healing your son! He is sooo good!!
I’m almost in tears. My mom passed away 2011 and it has fallen upon me to do Thanksgiving, and I can prepare a wonderful meal but the one thing I always fail at is the show stopper, the dressing! I feel like this is my mom’s recipe, and I feel confident that I can now do all the thanksgiving things
Same here - my mom passed away in 2004 and I thought for sure after all the years I helped her with the holiday meals I could do her dressing. Well nope I have not been able to but I really think that this is it and I have a recipe now. My mom didn't have a recipe other than a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have been looking for years for something that would be close and I believe MeMe's is it. So sorry for your loss @karrigirl ❤
Yes, you can. Dressing is not hard. I use sage in mine. It is always the star of the dinner. Melt butter in 2 big iron skillets and cook your dressing in those until the edges are crispy. It’s delicious.
This is the first video I have seen of MeMe's. She had me at the get-go! What a concise and to the point experience! She wastes no words or time putting this recipe together. I became her biggest fan immediately. God Bless All of Us!
When are you going to add. The crumbled biscuit leave out the celery more broth and then you will have southern cornbread dressing just my family recipe
I love watching your cooking videos. My dad had a heart transplant when he was about 60 years old. He lived for 22 more years after the transplant. It truly was a blessing for our family. God Bless Your Family!
I cant be a donor because of cancer. I think God has provided your son with a great blessing and his family too. So glad your family gets together. God is blessing you all and i pray continually blesses everyone.
Meme I love you! I found you a few weeks ago and you absolutely make my day. I want to share my grandmother's tips on her giblet gravy. She would put a healthy tablespoon of dressing (before it had been baked) into her chicken broth. We add boiled eggs and chopped chicken livers (I don't care for gizzards!). The dressing provides the thickening element. Yumm. Thank you for brining your sunshine to the world. You are exactly why I am proud to be a Southern woman. Have a great day. Shine for Jesus!!
❤ I am so happy to have found your video's! I catch myself smiling listening to your lessons.and what a beautiful family you have...God bless you and yours! Blessings to the donor family!!
What a blessing for your son and your family. Our prayers also go to the family that suffered a loss and gave him the gift of prolonged life. God Bless.
Dear Miss MeMe, I am an organ donor! I'm so glad that your son is doing well and that your family is so blessed! Your recipes are just amazing and I'm so glad that I now have your wonderful cookbook! Bless you so much for what you do for those of us who wish we could be part of your wonderful family!
Sausage dressing with sage is incredible! My mama simmered turkey necks for dressing and added 2 eggs to keep it together :) Sage is a must here but we're Yanks 😂
I simmer the broth with a couple cans of chicken, a bay leaf my sautéed onions and celery just to add a little meat to my dressing. It's my favorite thing too! Mom always boiled the neck and picked it and added the organs too but my hubby likes to eat the organs and you don't get much meat.off that neck. I throw it in anyway.
@patk1254 Yes, it does! I'm shaking my head chuckling a bit at all the people here who insist they don't like sage and use poultry seasoning instead. You don't know what you don't know, I guess. Personally, we love sage and add way more than most. Oh, nutmeg as well 😊 Edit: a word
In my family we put the hard boiled eggs, diced in the dressing, not the gravy, saute the celery & onion, but make a roll of biscuits to add to cornbread. Dry both out by letting them sit out crumbled up & spread out in 1 layer on the dinner table for at least 24 hours & use the broth from the turkey added to dressing, definitely make sure it's sloppy as my grandma would say, not so much poultry seasoning as it can make it taste dirty (another grandma sayin) add sage, bake & YUM!!
Usually you cook the way your mom made her food. Being from the North cornbread is replaced by toasted bread. I am going to give this a try with a roasting chicken. I never heard of cooked diced hard boiled eggs in making the gravy. This is definitely new to me and I need a give it a try. Blessings and continue renewed health to your son. My niece had a kidney transplant. Three way switch with 6 operating rooms in use. John Hopkins and it made national news at that time. My daughter’s birthday is November 1. God works in mysterious ways and we should never doubt.
Everyone has their own recipe for dressing. My mother boiled a hen, and used that broth, it had some onion, celery and carrot in the water to cook that hen. She then made the corn bread the day before, so it could dry out. She also made a pan of regular or buttermilk biscuits and let them dry overnight. She always precooked the celery & onions for the dressing. Her dressing had body to it, it wasn't that smooth kind and everyone loved it. She only used salt, pepper and sage or poultry seasoning, sometimes a bit of both. But she broke up the cornbread and left it slightly chunky, she tore up the biscuits into maybe 1" pieces. She added the cooked onion and celery (being just slightly soft) oh and she cooked them in a stick of butter, so when she added it to the breads, in went the butter. She added her raw eggs, spices and mixed it up and put into her baking metal pan (because we like the edges slightly browned and crisp)....I'm getting hungry thinking about it now. Thank you for your recipe ❤
My mother always used a hen and broth for dressing. I live in Texas and never called it stuffing! She also used biscuits, cornbread and white bread. We didn’t use sage!
@@cmills53 Sounds like my mom’s dressing. She would not make it without a hen; not a fryer. We also didn’t use sage . I use a little of my dressing in my gravy to thicken it and makes it blend with the taste of the dressing.
What a wonderful blessing! It’s no coincidence that The Lord gave him a new heart on his birthday. I. Pray that he continue to do well. God bless you and your family. Dawn
I use both poultry seasoning and sage light handed. But poultry seasoning does have sage in it. I have always sauteed my chopped celery and onions before adding Like my mother did! Love to watch you cook !!
Thank you, Diane, for your wonderful recipes, your positive attitude, and your love for the Lord. As a busy teacher at a Christian school on Chicago's north shore, you have given me some great meal ideas! Blessings to you, sister in Christ.
Miss MeMe this was truly an awesome video and always nice to share family with us all. I wanted to grab a plate and eat a little of everything you made it looks so delicious and welcoming. Of course those deviled eggs made me want to jump in there. Nothing like great Southern cooking. My mom gave me a little hint when making regular or cornbread dressing after mixing up the ingredients add a couple tsps of baking powder it really makes the dressing puff up and gives it a fluffier taste try it once for me. Love your videos and you definitely are blessed with your cooking talents. Robert C. in Portland Oregon PS MeMe i am a registered nurse and worked over 35 years in post open heart intensive care and yes open heart surgery and heart transplant programs have come so advanced and enriches the recipient's lives Yes we all need to be organ donors to help others in need.
MeMe I love your channel, but mostly I love your sweet tender spirit! The Lord is evident in u even over the air! God Bless u. Your cooking is so like mine and my sweet Mammas😊. Thank u!
Looks great! We do the bread dressing with celery, onion, egg, salt, pepper, butter, and broth. Also, excellent. We call it dressing because we don't usually stuff it. We just put it around the bird to soak up all the delicious broth. Or prepare in a separate dish.
We do the bread dressing the same with sage and poultry seasoning and add cooked bob Evan's sausage with sage.this is similar to the way my grandma made it. She never wrote down recipes.
WOW MEME that was an absolute shocker! I am so happy to hear that your son is doing well. Yes only the Lord can orchestrate such a miracle. Much love to you and to your family. Your videos are so joyful and so down to earth. Keep them going. You are fantastic!
From a Memaw to a Meme. God is great!! My husband recently had a liver transplant due to a very rare form of cancer. I finished decorating for Thanksgiving today and crying g happy tears for this very blessed season. God knows our needs before we do. Keeping your family in our prayers and also the organ donor family even though we don't know who they are. Wishing you a great and blessed Thanksgiving From St Louis Missouri
Wonderful story of family and God love. And when your son woke up with a new heart on his birthday I am sure his family also got a new heart, each!!! Praise to our soon coming King!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
My Mammaw loved cornbread, she made it in a cast iron skillet with a little bacon grease in the bottom, and fried the crust😊 when she was much older, and getting to the point where, she wasn’t eating alot, I’d make a skillet of cornbread, she’d take all the brown, crunchy crust off of it, and eat that in a bowl of milk🤣😂🤣 leaving me with a crustless hunk of yellow cornbread….. what I wouldn’t give to make another pan for her….. I love your recipes, Miss Diane, and I’m so thankful I found you💕
Cornbread reminds me of my mom and nana(they made the best cornbread). Prayers for your son and also to the family who list their loved one for the transplant.
Praise God for your son's heart transplant! We have so much to be thankful for. Thank you for sharing. Praying for continued blessings for you and your sweet family.
How wonderful that your son could have the opportunity to extend his life......some are not so fortunate so happy that you all are so thankful. Hope he has many many more years to be with his family!
That is one fabulous feast you put together, ma’am. I imagine it was better to eat than it looks even. Thank you for sharing your family’s story. You are a blessing to them and to us who visit you.
How do I get your cook book?I love watching your UA-cam videos! I too am very grateful for the many blessings that my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have blessed me with. Countless, but especially my family!
Meme, so glad you shared the information about your son! Praise our Lord and Saviour for his goodness and love!!! Here are my prayers for your son’s continued health!!!
I also use some cream of chicken soup in my dressing. Got started back in the 70’s when I didn’t have enough chicken broth and back then the only thing open on Thanksgiving was a convenience store and they didn’t have chicken broth but did have cream of chicken soup. Turned out so good I kept doing it.
I'm from Wisconsin, and it's so fun to watch these southern recipes. Different from mine, my mom's and grandma's. Not better..not worse just different. Love it all
I needed a gravy recipe to go with dressing. New to your channel, and I know you said you're from South Carolina, but you cook like my Alabama family. Looking forward to trying. Wish I could be at your Sunday dinners.
I have never seen eggs in gravy. We here in Louisiana use spices in our dishes. Of all of the different shows I watch from all parts of the country I am amazed how little if any spices others use.
I just love you! I unfortunately never had the luxury or growing up with my grandmother's and cooking in the kitchen. I'm 39 now and love nothing more than getting in the kitchen and sharing with family. Not just on the holidays but all year long. Thank you for the videos and making me feel like a part of your family!❤ - Cindy from Georgia
What a beautiful story. I was hoping to hear about how thankful you are to the donor family. I know you are so thankful as it shows in your storytelling, but please remember the family that lost so very much. What an amazing gift they gave to your son.
What an adorable little boy. So cute! Diane, that is so like God to provide your son with a new heart and on those specific dates. God is faithful! So glad your son is doing fine. What a blessing! Have a blessed Thanksgiving in 2023! 🙏🏻
Meme ...you are just adorable! You are so caring, thoughtful and genuine! I love your accent....I could listen to you talk for hours on end! You are a true southern belle! Your cooking videos are so diverse and the recipes seem pretty easy. The food you prepare looks incredibly delicious and at the end of a lot of your videos, when you show the entire meal laid out on your side counter, I always find myself wishing I was the first one in line! Not only for the scrumptious food, but for the fellowship with your loving family. My sister and I are the only family we have now....everyone else has passed. So when I watch your videos, I get warm memories of my own family and it makes me smile. I am very happy your son is doing well! I know he will continue to flourish! As will all of your family. I will be making your stuffing and gravy recipe (I do not care for sage or giblets at all) and when my sister and I sit down to eat it, I will think of you. You are truly an inspiration. Best wishes for a very Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving! God Bless You All!
I don't know why she did it, but my mother always fried her celery and onions in butter on the stove before she mixed it. I don't know why, but man smelling that early in the morning was Thanksgiving for us!
Vintage measuring spoon set...oh my heart. I have the same from my grandmother. Just the sound makes me happy and hungry. 🥰Glad to have found your channel. Joyful and educational.
My mom passed away unexpectedly about 12 years ago. She was a country girl born and raised in North Carolina. She made the best dressing and giblet gravy. Sadly none of us had ever learned how to make her dressing prior to her leaving us. Much of what you are doing in your recipe seems familiar to the little bit I did observe here and there as she made her dressing, so I am anxious to try this. If it is about the same I will be a hero in my family :) Love watching your show.
Looks wonderful we should all be more grateful God is so good we take God for granted in this big country filled with abundance thanks for reminding me ❤
God bless your son and may he continue to heal as the years go by. So I’m sure that’s the reason you used the unsalted broth …you had said you would get to the reason why you were using the unsalted chicken broth. Thank you for sharing the many blessings god has given your family. I’m an organ donor. Thank you for asking others to consider being an organ donor. God is so good ❤️🙏🏻❤️. This was back in 2022 ?. I’m praying his health is improving each and everyday. God Bless your family. Thank you for always sharing your great recipes. God Bless you 🙏🏻😇
I could drink Giblet Gravy!! We also don't use the Giblets, but one thing my mom does to thicken is add a scoop or two of the cooked dressing, omgosh it's so good!
Totally agree! I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life and of course, I was very biased about my mama’s cooking. She also made the best chicken and dressing to me. I never heard of anyone using stove top stuffing until I went to visit friends in Indiana few years back, especially for their dressing. I guess we all do and cook how we was raised. Then there is the cornbread being made out of a box. Don’t get me started on the jiffy mix😂😂😂 I have never 😂
Corn bread dressing! Love it! We make it a bit different but you are making me hungry for Thanksgiving dinner. My baby girl’s job was to crumble the corn bread. She still loves to do it!
My Mama always used sage in her dressing. And we always liked it but it gave us heartburn. So maybe we'll try the poultry seasoning this year and maybe give the Tums a break.
MeMe knows what she's doing. That's how you make dressing, not the bread crumbs. I loved how she snickered at the family members who like "chunks of vegetables" in their dressing😅😅😅😅You the boss, MeMe❤
I always make homemade dressing ( not cornbread) , homemade noodles, homemade gravy, homemade pie, homemade sourdough bread, homemade everything! I guess I do everyday. My MiMi taught me well.
Every Sunday at your house is like Thanksgiving, MeMe! You’re amazing! I think I’m doing wonderful if I make one meat and two vegetables and no reservations. 😂 I’m 66 y/o and it took me 65 to perfect my homemade rolls. Yes, I am an organ donor and think it’s a great idea. So happy your son is doing well and that baby is gorgeous!
I just watched your video with happy tears in my eyes and wanted to take a moment to tell you that you truly are blessed by Jesus. I lost my daughter almost 4 years ago, so it is wonderful to hear that your son was saved and is well on the way to recovery. I will pray for his continued progress. I myself am waiting for a kidney. Please pray for me as I also have a son I want to stick around for. Hugs to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your joy!
I am so happy to have found you Ms Diane☺️💐‼️I have binge watching your videos at night and it’s like being in the kitchen with my own grandma (also called “Mimi”& also from the Carolinas) who raised me. Your content warms my heart and also jars my memory and I’m making old favorites like dressing & gravy. I feel certain I can impress my daughters with an old family favorite dish of my grandma’s following your recipes 🙏🏼
Looks so yummy MeMe! I love yellow squash & onions - my family made cornbread dressing similar to yours.. We do add sage though and my Nana shared her onion&celery in the stick of butter before adding it- funny how everyone has a slight variation! In the PNW they only ever eat “stuffing” which is different it’s made with breadcrumbs.. I make a hybrid of both cornbread and breadcrumbs now! Thank you for sharing about your son and his journey. I am lifting your whole family up in my prayers. I have been an organ donor my entire life-it is important to make decisions like this and share it with your family. Only God knows when He calls us home. Miracles happen everyday. ❤
It’s the largest ingredient in it. I’m thinking maybe she meant some people like Sage only (?) vs the poultry seasoning, bc that’s how my southern mom always made it & she said that a lot.
@@memesrecipessc I’m happy to find your recipe bc it’s the only one I’ve seen that is exactly like my Mom’s and people always went ga-ga over it😍 A couple times she added a can of cream of chicken soup to it and that was also nice but not as healthy.
Praise God Praise God!!! God is Good all the time. Like you said we have so much to be thankful for. Your son is a miracle from the Lord & has a new lease on life. Totally awesome. Will continue to keep him in Prayer. God has his heart and his back!!. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So thankful for your son healing and for the donor's family giving him the gift of life
Yes!!🙏🏻❤️Thank you!!
Sweet lady you are a true treasure.
Wow, thank you!! That is such a compliment!!🙂
I am an organ donor. I was born on September 17th 1960.
I worked 41 years at the same place and 13 days after I retired, I found myself in the hospital only to discover I needed a heart transplant…. Long story short, they pulled 1972ml of fluid from around my heart, and with prayer and a miracle from God, I left the hospital and have not been back… so God bless you and your son. My grandmother made dressing close to your recipe and I miss cooking with her. My oldest daughter and her family are hosting Thanksgiving… but I will make your dressing to take with us.
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless you and family.
Thank you,
Ray
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Hi Ray,
I'm reading your testimony almost a year later. Glad to read you had a healthy outcome to your cardiac situation. God bless 😊
@@donnaleesalerno thank you so much… life is good and God is great!
Hey MeMe I enjoyed watching you cook. I will try some of your recipes! ❤
Ray, I hope you are doing well!
Your family is so blessed. I am so happy that he is doing so well. My son has been battling cancer for 8 years and unfortunately he passed away the day after his 52 birthday. My life will never be the same again but I know he is no longer struggling with this awful disease. He never complained and I know he went thru what he did to stay with us as long as he could. I will miss him every day of my remaining life. Cherish every second. D
My heart breaks for you! I can't imagine. We absolutely cherish life. God bless you as you carry on! Thank you for stopping by my kitchen.
You brought me to happy tears. God indeed gives us what we need without even asking for. I’m almost 60 but chose to be an organ donor since I got my drivers license at age 16. I have no family left and watching your videos reminds me of my mom and grandma. May God bless you always. Live in Christ, Todd
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Indeed😊
Amen and bless you all!
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Ty for sharing love the dressing I never put boiled eggs in my gravy but going to try it out later on good to here of your son❤❤❤ God Bless you and yours Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
❤love and prayers 🙏
Love your recipes, from North Carolina
Bless the person who was an organ donor. Yes, your family does have a lot to be thankful for. ❤️
We are eternally grateful!
i once accidentally used the puree blade on my onions and it blended them so fine it looked like an onion smoothie! i went ahead and poured the onion smoothie into my stuffing and it turned out the best i've ever made. i guess it releases ALL the onion flavor. i've done it that way ever since!
Interesting!! May have to try. Thanks for watching!
😂onion smoothie is funny but I wondered if hers would be an onion puree' and how would it affect the taste. It's funny how you can discover a masterpiece by accident 😊
Don't you love those accidental recipes? I have a few of those and love them. I'm going to try pureeing mine too.
I had a roommate who HATED onion so much she said she was allergic to it. The truth was that she didn’t like the texture of onions. One day I was making dressing and I knew I couldn’t make it without onions. So I put the onion In the blender with the liquid. She raved about how delicious it was! When I told her it had onion and how I did it, she was so excited because she found a way to enjoy the flavor and avoid the texture. I never diced onions for my dressing again!
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I saute my onions & celery. I dont like that raw taste in my dressing. I also use cream of chicken soup & chicken broth. I use very little sage MeMe. Poultry seasning with other seasonings are enough. You can make me your dressing anytime MeMe!❤😊 Praise God for totally healing your son! He is sooo good!!
I'm the exact same
Same. saute' veggies, homemade broth, no sage.
I do the same, sauté the onions and celery in butter. I use salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, poultry seasoning, garlic powder and onion powder. ❤
Where can I get your cookbook?
Start your own channel?
I’m almost in tears. My mom passed away 2011 and it has fallen upon me to do Thanksgiving, and I can prepare a wonderful meal but the one thing I always fail at is the show stopper, the dressing! I feel like this is my mom’s recipe, and I feel confident that I can now do all the thanksgiving things
im sorry for your loss.
Same here - my mom passed away in 2004 and I thought for sure after all the years I helped her with the holiday meals I could do her dressing. Well nope I have not been able to but I really think that this is it and I have a recipe now. My mom didn't have a recipe other than a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have been looking for years for something that would be close and I believe MeMe's is it. So sorry for your loss @karrigirl ❤
Yes, you can. Dressing is not hard. I use sage in mine. It is always the star of the dinner. Melt butter in 2 big iron skillets and cook your dressing in those until the edges are crispy. It’s delicious.
My first time watching this.
Great recipe!
Where is your accent from??
That is a South Carolina accent. I spent a year in North Carolina. I'm from Chicago and can you believe they tried to tell me I had an accent!😀
What a wonderful testimony! And your food looks delicious! Your Sunday dinner looks like a feast for a king. Blessings to you and yours.
This is the first video I have seen of MeMe's. She had me at the get-go! What a concise and to the point experience! She wastes no words or time putting this recipe together. I became her biggest fan immediately. God Bless All of Us!
Thanks so much and please subscribe.🙂
When are you going to add. The crumbled biscuit leave out the celery more broth and then you will have southern cornbread dressing just my family recipe
I love watching your cooking videos. My dad had a heart transplant when he was about 60 years old. He lived for 22 more years after the transplant. It truly was a blessing for our family. God Bless Your Family!
That is awesome! thank you for sharing!
Reminds me of my Grandma’s Sunday dinner. Oh, how I miss her.
I cant be a donor because of cancer. I think God has provided your son with a great blessing and his family too. So glad your family gets together. God is blessing you all and i pray continually blesses everyone.
Meme I love you! I found you a few weeks ago and you absolutely make my day. I want to share my grandmother's tips on her giblet gravy. She would put a healthy tablespoon of dressing (before it had been baked) into her chicken broth. We add boiled eggs and chopped chicken livers (I don't care for gizzards!). The dressing provides the thickening element. Yumm. Thank you for brining your sunshine to the world. You are exactly why I am proud to be a Southern woman. Have a great day. Shine for Jesus!!
What a great tip!! Thank you for sharing... and thank you for watching! Welcome to my kitchen!
My grandmother did the same thing! Plus a slurry of a little cornmeal mixed with milk, but only a little. She used mostly dressing. 🥰
❤ I am so happy to have found your video's! I catch myself smiling listening to your lessons.and what a beautiful family you have...God bless you and yours! Blessings to the donor family!!
What a blessing for your son and your family. Our prayers also go to the family that suffered a loss and gave him the gift of prolonged life. God Bless.
Thank you for the prayers... he is almost 2 years out and doing well!
Dear Miss MeMe, I am an organ donor! I'm so glad that your son is doing well and that your family is so blessed! Your recipes are just amazing and I'm so glad that I now have your wonderful cookbook! Bless you so much for what you do for those of us who wish we could be part of your wonderful family!
Thank you for your sweet comment! And thank you so much for watching!!
I sauté onion, celery , bell pepper and Owen’s sausage. I also add both poultry seasoning and sage. Yum!
Sounds delicious!!
Sausage dressing with sage is incredible!
My mama simmered turkey necks for dressing and added 2 eggs to keep it together :) Sage is a must here but we're Yanks 😂
Poultry seasoning contains sage
I simmer the broth with a couple cans of chicken, a bay leaf my sautéed onions and celery just to add a little meat to my dressing. It's my favorite thing too! Mom always boiled the neck and picked it and added the organs too but my hubby likes to eat the organs and you don't get much meat.off that neck. I throw it in anyway.
@patk1254 Yes, it does! I'm shaking my head chuckling a bit at all the people here who insist they don't like sage and use poultry seasoning instead.
You don't know what you don't know, I guess.
Personally, we love sage and add way more than most. Oh, nutmeg as well 😊
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I have never heard of putting eggs in gravy! I was a little shocked. Lol! I’ll have to try it sometime. TFS
I never heard of putting eggs in gravy either 🤔 It looks chunky to me. I'm used to thick & creamy gravy but I will try it. 😋 Thank you for sharing! ❤
In my family we put the hard boiled eggs, diced in the dressing, not the gravy, saute the celery & onion, but make a roll of biscuits to add to cornbread. Dry both out by letting them sit out crumbled up & spread out in 1 layer on the dinner table for at least 24 hours & use the broth from the turkey added to dressing, definitely make sure it's sloppy as my grandma would say, not so much poultry seasoning as it can make it taste dirty (another grandma sayin) add sage, bake & YUM!!
It’s called goblet gravy. But not everyone uses the giblets. It’s kinda like a modified goblet gravy. Lol
My father puts eggs in his gravy also. Always delicious.
Usually you cook the way your mom made her food.
Being from the North cornbread is replaced by toasted bread. I am going to give this a try with a roasting chicken. I never heard of cooked diced hard boiled eggs in making the gravy.
This is definitely new to me and I need a give it a try.
Blessings and continue renewed health to your son.
My niece had a kidney transplant. Three way switch with 6 operating rooms in use. John Hopkins and it made national news at that time.
My daughter’s birthday is November 1.
God works in mysterious ways and we should never doubt.
Prayers for your son to continue doing well with his new heart. What a wonderful miracle.
Everyone has their own recipe for dressing. My mother boiled a hen, and used that broth, it had some onion, celery and carrot in the water to cook that hen. She then made the corn bread the day before, so it could dry out. She also made a pan of regular or buttermilk biscuits and let them dry overnight. She always precooked the celery & onions for the dressing. Her dressing had body to it, it wasn't that smooth kind and everyone loved it. She only used salt, pepper and sage or poultry seasoning, sometimes a bit of both. But she broke up the cornbread and left it slightly chunky, she tore up the biscuits into maybe 1" pieces. She added the cooked onion and celery (being just slightly soft) oh and she cooked them in a stick of butter, so when she added it to the breads, in went the butter. She added her raw eggs, spices and mixed it up and put into her baking metal pan (because we like the edges slightly browned and crisp)....I'm getting hungry thinking about it now. Thank you for your recipe ❤
That’s exactly how my mother made hers! It’s like you read it off of her recipe card! 🥰
Oh My! Thank you! Someone else that cooks the veggies with the chicken for the broth! Sounds close to my Mama’s!
My mother always used a hen and broth for dressing. I live in Texas and never called it stuffing! She also used biscuits, cornbread and white bread. We didn’t use sage!
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Sounds like my mom’s dressing. She would not make it without a hen; not a fryer.
We also didn’t use sage .
I use a little of my dressing in my gravy to thicken it and makes it blend with the taste of the dressing.
What a wonderful story of your son. May God Bless his continued health.
What a wonderful blessing! It’s no coincidence that The Lord gave him a new heart on his birthday. I. Pray that he continue to do well. God bless you and your family.
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I use both poultry seasoning and sage light handed. But poultry seasoning does have sage in it. I have always sauteed my chopped celery and onions before adding Like my mother did! Love to watch you cook !!
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Thank you, Diane, for your wonderful recipes, your positive attitude, and your love for the Lord. As a busy teacher at a Christian school on Chicago's north shore, you have given me some great meal ideas! Blessings to you, sister in Christ.
Yay!! That is my goal... to help busy people put a meal on the table! God bless you ... teachers have a hard job!
Miss MeMe this was truly an awesome video and always nice to share family with us all. I wanted to grab a plate and eat a little of everything you made it looks so delicious and welcoming. Of course those deviled eggs made me want to jump in there. Nothing like great Southern cooking. My mom gave me a little hint when making regular or cornbread dressing after mixing up the ingredients add a couple tsps of baking powder it really makes the dressing puff up and gives it a fluffier taste try it once for me. Love your videos and you definitely are blessed with your cooking talents. Robert C. in Portland Oregon PS MeMe i am a registered nurse and worked over 35 years in post open heart intensive care and yes open heart surgery and heart transplant programs have come so advanced and enriches the recipient's lives Yes we all need to be organ donors to help others in need.
You are sweet!! God bless you!
A true Southern Lady.
MeMe I love your channel, but mostly I love your sweet tender spirit! The Lord is evident in u even over the air! God Bless u. Your cooking is so like mine and my sweet Mammas😊. Thank u!
This Dressing and Gravy recipe looks so delicious 😋Ms. Diane.
MeMe, I'm so glad to hear that you're son is doing well. God bless you and your family. Thank you so much for your wonderful videos.
In tears . So glad for your son and your family. Bless you .
Thank you so much!❤️
Looks great! We do the bread dressing with celery, onion, egg, salt, pepper, butter, and broth. Also, excellent.
We call it dressing because we don't usually stuff it. We just put it around the bird to soak up all the delicious broth. Or prepare in a separate dish.
Sounds great!
I also make the bread dressing
We cook ours outside the bird as well. Why did it never occur to me to put it in the roaster, around the bird?! I’m trying that - great idea!
@@cheribecerra9046 yes we keep turning it and stirring it until it has the perfect proportion of wet versus crunchy. Yum
We do the bread dressing the same with sage and poultry seasoning and add cooked bob Evan's sausage with sage.this is similar to the way my grandma made it. She never wrote down recipes.
WOW MEME that was an absolute shocker! I am so happy to hear that your son is doing well. Yes only the Lord can orchestrate such a miracle. Much love to you and to your family. Your videos are so joyful and so down to earth. Keep them going. You are fantastic!
Thanks so much!
Blessings to you and your family, MeMe! I am so happy that I found your channel! Thank YOU for sharing your recipes with us! - Mark P.
Welcome to my kitchen. Thank you for watching!! I love sharing a good recipe.
Amen & Amen!!!
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From a Memaw to a Meme. God is great!! My husband recently had a liver transplant due to a very rare form of cancer. I finished decorating for Thanksgiving today and crying g happy tears for this very blessed season. God knows our needs before we do. Keeping your family in our prayers and also the organ donor family even though we don't know who they are. Wishing you a great and blessed Thanksgiving From St Louis Missouri
Thank you so much!! I wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving also!!🙏🏻❤️🙂
I love your cooking. Praying for your son. 🙏🏼
Thank you so much
Wonderful story of family and God love. And when your son woke up with a new heart on his birthday I am sure his family also got a new heart, each!!! Praise to our soon coming King!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
My Mammaw loved cornbread, she made it in a cast iron skillet with a little bacon grease in the bottom, and fried the crust😊 when she was much older, and getting to the point where, she wasn’t eating alot, I’d make a skillet of cornbread, she’d take all the brown, crunchy crust off of it, and eat that in a bowl of milk🤣😂🤣 leaving me with a crustless hunk of yellow cornbread….. what I wouldn’t give to make another pan for her….. I love your recipes, Miss Diane, and I’m so thankful I found you💕
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Cornbread reminds me of my mom and nana(they made the best cornbread). Prayers for your son and also to the family who list their loved one for the transplant.
God bless. A wonderful story. You're a blessing in my life since I've found you. I love you.
Praise God for your son's heart transplant! We have so much to be thankful for. Thank you for sharing. Praying for continued blessings for you and your sweet family.
Thank you so much!
How wonderful that your son could have the opportunity to extend his life......some are not so fortunate so happy that you all are so thankful. Hope he has many many more years to be with his family!
Thank you... he is doing great!
That is one fabulous feast you put together, ma’am. I imagine it was better to eat than it looks even. Thank you for sharing your family’s story. You are a blessing to them and to us who visit you.
Thank you so much 🤗
Never in my life heard of eggs in gravy! Learn something new every day😊
Hope you enjoy
Yes, my mother used to do that.
How do I get your cook book?I love watching your UA-cam videos! I too am very grateful for the many blessings that my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have blessed me with. Countless, but especially my family!
I put egg in my gravy also n some pimentos just for coloring
My mother always chopped up a boil egg into the gravy.
Meme, so glad you shared the information about your son! Praise our Lord and Saviour for his goodness and love!!! Here are my prayers for your son’s continued health!!!
Amen! And thank you!
What an amazing testimony! Love your videos ❤❤
Bless You and yours, so uplifting when I see someone give thanks to Our Lord
Looks yummy! My mother started adding cream of chicken in hers throughout the years. Made it nice and rich
I also use some cream of chicken soup in my dressing. Got started back in the 70’s when I didn’t have enough chicken broth and back then the only thing open on Thanksgiving was a convenience store and they didn’t have chicken broth but did have cream of chicken soup. Turned out so good I kept doing it.
I'm from Wisconsin, and it's so fun to watch these southern recipes. Different from mine, my mom's and grandma's. Not better..not worse just different. Love it all
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I needed a gravy recipe to go with dressing. New to your channel, and I know you said you're from South Carolina, but you cook like my Alabama family. Looking forward to trying. Wish I could be at your Sunday dinners.
so glad to hear about your son. God is so good. Needed that testimony ty
I have never seen eggs in gravy. We here in Louisiana use spices in our dishes. Of all of the different shows I watch from all parts of the country I am amazed how little if any spices others use.
I grew up with very few choices but salt and pepper. It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks 😂
I just love you! I unfortunately never had the luxury or growing up with my grandmother's and cooking in the kitchen. I'm 39 now and love nothing more than getting in the kitchen and sharing with family. Not just on the holidays but all year long.
Thank you for the videos and making me feel like a part of your family!❤
- Cindy from Georgia
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Meme, you are such a lovely lady! I just love your southern accent!! Butta!! Love your show…
What a beautiful story. I was hoping to hear about how thankful you are to the donor family. I know you are so thankful as it shows in your storytelling, but please remember the family that lost so very much. What an amazing gift they gave to your son.
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I just ordered your cookbook. Can't wait to get it!! I'm so happy I stumbled onto your channel a few days ago 😀
Thank you!! : )
The same for me.
What an adorable little boy. So cute! Diane, that is so like God to provide your son with a new heart and on those specific dates. God is faithful! So glad your son is doing fine. What a blessing! Have a blessed Thanksgiving in 2023! 🙏🏻
Dressing and gravy are the beat part of thanksgiving.
Looks so delicious.
Thank you🙏👍⚘️have a Blessed day
Meme ...you are just adorable! You are so caring, thoughtful and genuine! I love your accent....I could listen to you talk for hours on end! You are a true southern belle! Your cooking videos are so diverse and the recipes seem pretty easy. The food you prepare looks incredibly delicious and at the end of a lot of your videos, when you show the entire meal laid out on your side counter, I always find myself wishing I was the first one in line! Not only for the scrumptious food, but for the fellowship with your loving family. My sister and I are the only family we have now....everyone else has passed. So when I watch your videos, I get warm memories of my own family and it makes me smile. I am very happy your son is doing well! I know he will continue to flourish! As will all of your family. I will be making your stuffing and gravy recipe (I do not care for sage or giblets at all) and when my sister and I sit down to eat it, I will think of you. You are truly an inspiration. Best wishes for a very Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving! God Bless You All!
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Just found this channel, so glad I did. Thank you very much. Bless your family.❤
Welcome!!
What a blessing!! God is good...all the time.
Sanger is the best heart group ever😊
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I don't know why she did it, but my mother always fried her celery and onions in butter on the stove before she mixed it. I don't know why, but man smelling that early in the morning was Thanksgiving for us!
Oh wow!
My mother also sautéed the celery and onion in butter before mixing it into the dressing. I have always done it that way too.
Yes, I do as well. It does remind me of Thanksgiving. 🦃@@kathy.7475
Sauté onion & celery.
My Gram did too.
Vintage measuring spoon set...oh my heart. I have the same from my grandmother. Just the sound makes me happy and hungry. 🥰Glad to have found your channel. Joyful and educational.
So glad you have joined me with something I love!
My mom passed away unexpectedly about 12 years ago. She was a country girl born and raised in North Carolina. She made the best dressing and giblet gravy. Sadly none of us had ever learned how to make her dressing prior to her leaving us. Much of what you are doing in your recipe seems familiar to the little bit I did observe here and there as she made her dressing, so I am anxious to try this. If it is about the same I will be a hero in my family :) Love watching your show.
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No regular bread or biscuits mixed with cornmeal
The baby is adorable! God Bless You!
Your food is wonderful and you always make me smile. Thank you mamm
Looks wonderful we should all be more grateful God is so good we take God for granted in this big country filled with abundance thanks for reminding me ❤
Love watching Christian cooking shows. ❤
Thank you for sharing your love for Jesus and your many blessings. I always enjoy listening to your prayers at your meals. Have a good evening. 🌼🌻🌺🌸🌹
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God bless your son and may he continue to heal as the years go by. So I’m sure that’s the reason you used the unsalted broth …you had said you would get to the reason why you were using the unsalted chicken broth. Thank you for sharing the many blessings god has given your family. I’m an organ donor. Thank you for asking others to consider being an organ donor. God is so good ❤️🙏🏻❤️. This was back in 2022 ?. I’m praying his health is improving each and everyday. God Bless your family. Thank you for always sharing your great recipes. God Bless you 🙏🏻😇
He is doing great!!! Thank you... we have been incredibly blessed.
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So wonderful to hear 💗
Praying for your son and your great family. Your tester was really enjoying your food.
Thank you so much!❤️
I’ve never seen gravy with eggs in it before. My mother always used Wondra flour. It comes in a cardboard canister. Congratulations!
It's so good!
I’ve never heard of making gravy that way and we always use green onions celery and bell pepper bar dressing
I could drink Giblet Gravy!! We also don't use the Giblets, but one thing my mom does to thicken is add a scoop or two of the cooked dressing, omgosh it's so good!
My grandmother, rest her soul, would occasionally put a few slices of egg in the gravy. It's a southern thing I'm sure!
Never heard of putting eggs in gravy. Interesting.
Thank you sweet lady . You are a genius for sharing. I love your sweet spirit while your cooking or baking. ❤
You are a precious lady but I don’t make my dressing like you…..it’s so funny how even Southern cooks make their dressing differently ❤️❤️
Variety is the spice of life!
Totally agree! I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life and of course, I was very biased about my mama’s cooking. She also made the best chicken and dressing to me. I never heard of anyone using stove top stuffing until I went to visit friends in Indiana few years back, especially for their dressing. I guess we all do and cook how we was raised. Then there is the cornbread being made out of a box. Don’t get me started on the jiffy mix😂😂😂 I have never 😂
Corn bread dressing! Love it! We make it a bit different but you are making me hungry for Thanksgiving dinner. My baby girl’s job was to crumble the corn bread. She still loves to do it!
Yes, you are so right about sage. No sage in our dressing either!
My Mama always used sage in her dressing. And we always liked it but it gave us heartburn. So maybe we'll try the poultry seasoning this year and maybe give the Tums a break.
@@jennifersanford5936I'm pretty sure poultry seasoning almost always contains sage. It must be the proportion of sage to the other herbs.
Sage is the pro dominant seasoning in Poultry Seasoning. I think she meant to say some southern cooks only use Sage.
So enjoyed your time you shared with everyone God is so good what a wonderful story!!
MeMe knows what she's doing. That's how you make dressing, not the bread crumbs. I loved how she snickered at the family members who like "chunks of vegetables" in their dressing😅😅😅😅You the boss, MeMe❤
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Me too! Poultry seasoning. Love your ways of cooking. Reminds me of my dear mother.
Thank you so much👍🏻😋🙂❤️
I always make homemade dressing ( not cornbread) , homemade noodles, homemade gravy, homemade pie, homemade sourdough bread, homemade everything! I guess I do everyday. My MiMi taught me well.
Wow!!! That is awesome!
Love this sweet young lady. Thank you for your recepie
Every Sunday at your house is like Thanksgiving, MeMe! You’re amazing! I think I’m doing wonderful if I make one meat and two vegetables and no reservations. 😂 I’m 66 y/o and it took me 65 to perfect my homemade rolls. Yes, I am an organ donor and think it’s a great idea. So happy your son is doing well and that baby is gorgeous!
Cooking is my love language... and I really love my family!! : ) Thank you for watching!
I just watched your video with happy tears in my eyes and wanted to take a moment to tell you that you truly are blessed by Jesus. I lost my daughter almost 4 years ago, so it is wonderful to hear that your son was saved and is well on the way to recovery. I will pray for his continued progress. I myself am waiting for a kidney. Please pray for me as I also have a son I want to stick around for. Hugs to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your joy!
I am so happy to have found you Ms Diane☺️💐‼️I have binge watching your videos at night and it’s like being in the kitchen with my own grandma (also called “Mimi”& also from the Carolinas) who raised me. Your content warms my heart and also jars my memory and I’m making old favorites like dressing & gravy. I feel certain I can impress my daughters with an old family favorite dish of my grandma’s following your recipes 🙏🏼
Welcome to my kitchen.... Happy I can spark sweet memories for you!
Truly a blessed time. Here, as we near another Thanksgiving, I know that you have been continually blessed as are we!
Blessed beyond measure!!
Let’s also pray and be thankful her for the family that donated that heart to him.
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God bless you and your mother! She was a real southern lady. God rest her soul!!!
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God is good. God bless yall
Thank you!!
I love these videos. Beautiful family values and wonderful recipes that I will try.
What a cutie!
Looks so yummy MeMe! I love yellow squash & onions - my family made cornbread dressing similar to yours.. We do add sage though and my Nana shared her onion&celery in the stick of butter before adding it- funny how everyone has a slight variation! In the PNW they only ever eat “stuffing” which is different it’s made with breadcrumbs.. I make a hybrid of both cornbread and breadcrumbs now! Thank you for sharing about your son and his journey. I am lifting your whole family up in my prayers. I have been an organ donor my entire life-it is important to make decisions like this and share it with your family. Only God knows when He calls us home. Miracles happen everyday. ❤
Of course there's sage in poultry seasoning.
It’s the largest ingredient in it. I’m thinking maybe she meant some people like Sage only (?) vs the poultry seasoning, bc that’s how my southern mom always made it & she said that a lot.
Correct... the sage just doesn't seem to be as strong in the poultry seasoning...
@@memesrecipessc I’m happy to find your recipe bc it’s the only one I’ve seen that is exactly like my Mom’s and people always went ga-ga over it😍
A couple times she added a can of cream of chicken soup to it and that was also nice but not as healthy.
Love your channel!! What a lunch spread!! I had open heart surgery on 10/18/23 for a aortic aneurysm and doing very well. I will pray for your son💗
Thanks so much!! God bless!!🙂😋❤️🙏🏻
DRESSING ISNT DRESSING WITHOUT SAGE IN IT.
We have learned....There is sage in the poultry seasoning. But it is a milder flavor.
Prayers for continued healing and Yes God is good ❤ Love your recipes and your Southern accent!!
Thank you!!🙂
What beautiful videos you make - food for the stomach and the soul. Bless you and your family the way your stories and recipes bless us.
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So glad to hear your son is doing well..loved your testimony…yes indeed only The Lord can orchestrate that…God bless
Amen!!🙏🏻