Get Your Cheap On - eating and travel news - Thanksgiving 2025

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Welcome to our special edition; Thanksgiving Newsletter.

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Explore my Cornish hen and cornbread dressing recipe with cost breakdown in this special Thanksgiving issue. It does not always have to be turkey for Thanksgiving.

Baked Cornish Hen with Cornbread Dressing (2)

It's smallness makes the Cornish hen a serving for one person.

Cornbread Dressing

Ingredients:

1 x 6 oz cornbread mix (I used Morrisons)

1 x egg

2/3 cup of milk

Bake cornbread according to package instructions. While cornbread is being, prepare dressing veggies.

2 x jalapeno peppers, de-seeded and diced.

1/3 red onion, chopped

1/2 red (or other) bell pepper, diced

2 glove garlic, diced

1 stalk celery sliced and diced

2 TBS oil

Heat oil in skillet, add all veggies and cook on medium heat until done.

Crumble corn bread, add all cooked veggies, mix well. Add seasonings;

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp sage

3/4 cup broth      -    MIX ALL INGREDIENTS     -    set aside.

Cornish Hen

Steps:

If Cornish hen are frozen, soak in cool water to defrost. Remove any giblets. Rub approximately 1/2 tsp of salt inside the Cornish hen.

Loosely pack a few TBS of dressing into the hen cavity, cover Cornish with all foil and bake in pre-warmed oven at 350 degrees.

After about 1 hour and 15 minutes, remove alu foil, place remaining dressing around the bird (if dressing seems too dry, add 1/2 cup broth), brush butter over the hens and bake for an additional 1 hour or until Cornish hen skin browned.

Cost Breakdown:

(Cost does not include seasonings, oil, butter, milk due to buying these in large quantities.)

$10.54 Cornish hen

$0.58 cornbread mix

$0.50 egg

$050 jalapeños

$0.75 onion/bell celery (approximately).           Total $12.87                    Enjoy Your Meal!

In the holiday chirping spirit.

Gundi