Savory Thanksgiving Stuffing

If you don't have a favorite stuffing recipe for turkey, may I suggest this one? I've been making it for years, so long in fact, that I don't even remember where the recipe comes from. This stuffing is our family favorite for Thanksgiving and Christmas, if we have turkey for Christmas. The stuffing can be made the day before it is
needed and then stored, covered, in the refrigerator until you are ready to stuff the turkey. Never stuff the turkey and store it in the refrigerator because of the possibility of bacterial growth. Stuffing is delicious combined with the mashed potatoes, turkey and turkey gravy. Blessings...

Recipe: 

2 onions, diced
2 cups diced celery
2 cloves garlic, minced
6 tbsps. butter
2 7-oz. bags plain stuffing cubes
1/3 cup minced fresh parsley
2 tsps. ground sage
1 tsp. poultry seasoning
1/4 tsp. pepper
3 cups chicken broth

1. Saute' onion, celery and garlic in 4 tbsps of the butter for 3 minutes or until onion softens.
2. Combine veggies, bread cubes and seasonings in a large bowl. Mix well.
3. Melt remaining 2 tbsps butter and add to stuffing with the chicken broth. Mix and stuff turkey for roasting now, or cover the bowl of stuffing and store in the refrigerator for later use. After stuffing the neck cavity and main cavity, there will be stuffing remaining.
4. Bake remaining stuffing in a covered casserole in a 350 degree oven for about 35 minutes or until heated through.
5. This recipe can be cut-in-half for a turkey that is 15 lbs. or less, if you don't want a lot of leftovers.

Tip: I toast about 1 cup broken pecans and add to the stuffing along with a handful of raisins. I've also used dried cranberries, chopped, dried apricots, or 1 chopped apple with the pecans.
Tip: If you have limited oven space, put the extra stuffing in the crock pot on low heat until dinner time. This works great.
Tip: We don't care for soggy stuffing, so when I remove the stuffing from the turkey I add it to the baked stuffing, or to the crock pot. Mix well and serve. Wonderful flavor!