Name: Sausage and Sweet Potato Thanksgiving Stuffing
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 12 -16 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound ground Italian sausage (or your favorite kind of sausage); 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided; 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced; 2 medium leeks, halved and thinly sliced, white and pale green parts only; 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced; 1 apple, cored and diced; 5 cloves garlic, minced; 6 cups roughly-diced stale crusty bread*; 1/2 cup chopped pecans; 1/3 cup dried cranberries; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (I used a combo of fresh parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme); 2 1/2 cups chicken or vegetable stock; 2 eggs