Bacon Cornbread Stuffing

Over the past few years, I've tried quite a few different stuffing recipes.  Another thing about the past few years that I've noticed?  A lot of stuffing has gone uneaten.  By anyone other than me.   So, as much as I love trying out different flavor combos and add-ins, do you know what I love even more?  When every single person at the table gobbles (pun intended) up their helping of stuffing.  Maybe they even coo over it a little.  That is exactly what happened when this cornbread stuffing made its appearance on our Thanksgiving table this year.

I decided that instead of combing through my many years of magazine pages with frayed edges and recipes jotted down on notebook paper and bookmarks on my computer, I'd just ask for suggestions.  The number one request was for cornbread stuffing.  Without any "funny stuff" in it.  Or stuff that tastes weird.  I can do that.

I was torn between sausage and bacon, but in the end, bacon won.  Doesn't it always?  This is one that I'm guessing will be requested every year.  It's simple.  But the smoky, salty bacon...the sweet, caramelized onions...and the fresh green herbs accent the almost nutty flavor of the cornbread so perfectly that I wouldn't have it any other way.