Thanksgiving Recipe: Alex Guarnaschelli’s Miles Standish Stuffing

Even though her mother is the acclaimed cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli, when we asked JBF Award–winning chef Alex Guarnaschelli of New York City’s Butter for her favorite Thanksgiving dish, it was her father’s recipe for this savory stuffing that she shared with us. “My father calls this the Miles Standish stuffing,” she told us, “because it contains pepperoni and mozzarella, two ingredients he jokingly insists they were eating on the Mayflower.” This recipe makes enough to stuff a 16-pound turkey. Guarnaschelli suggests wrapping any excess stuffing in aluminum foil and putting it in the bottom of the roasting pan so the turkey drippings flavor it as it cooks—another technique she learned from her dad.

Get the recipe here.