Stuffing

I've been thinking about the canonical parts of Thanksgiving dinner¹. Most of it's straightforward:
turkey (baked, smoked, roasted, or even deep-fried)
cranberries (fresh relish, cooked sauce, or the jelly stuff from a can)
winter squash and/or sweet potatoes (mashed or in a pie)
pie (apple and/or pecan and/or pumpkin and/or almost anything else).

And then there's stuffing². Which varies from person to person, year to year. My basic stuffing involves sauteed onions, mushrooms, and celery (its one other use beside soup) mixed into a starch (bits of stale bread (notcroutons), or mashed-up potato, or broken matza with egg and poultry seasoning (sage, in my case) added. Sometimes I add nuts (walnuts or pecans are very nice), or fruit (apple or raisin, if everyone coming to dinner eats raisins), but it's all similar variations on a theme. And I like it, but I read about stuffings with cornbread (which would involve making the cornbread first), or croutons (ditto), or sausage, or [seafood I don't eat], and I wonder what those other stuffings are like, whether real people make them, or it's all just magazine writers making it up.

What's your favorite stuffing³?

(And if I didn't keep kosher, I might even think about having a turkey day dinner where everyone brought different stuffings, just to compare.)


¹ I serve more than this, everyone does⁴, but really, if this were all I had for the meal, it would still feel Thanksgivingish.
² Also known as dressing in some parts of the country. I didn't know this for years, and wondered why on earth people were serving their turkey with salad dressing.
³ Those who dislike stuffing are exempt :-)
⁴ Must have green vegetables! Must not be overwhelmed by starch!