Am I the only one who was not aware of this?
It’s a chicken…shoved inside a duck… shoved inside a turkey. I am fascinated by this. Not fascinated enough to try it of course, but fascinated none the less. I may be a great cook (and trust me, I am…) but when it comes to turkey, the one thing I am thankful for is that I have found ways to completely remove myself from the daunting process of getting anywhere near it during the cooking phase.
I’d like to tell you that I slave over a hot stove at Thanksgiving, but I don’t…I take the lazy route. Each year we load the kids into the car after a massive lecture on manners and being polite (wherein tell all letters written by us to Santa are thrown in at least ten times for good measure) and head over to my in-laws house. My step-mother-in-Law, who trained at the Cordon Bleu, has dinner ready and waiting for us. I love it. At Christmas, we prepare the feast and turkey is involved but once again, I manage to skirt all responsibility for the bird. My only job is to pray The Man does not catch the house, or himself, on fire while he stands outside deep frying it. To get out of cooking the turkey, however, it’s a risk I am willing to take.
Also, to the great consternation of my family, I’m planning on breaking the annual Bitchmas festival into several days and nights, tackling one room at a time, instead of the entire house in one day. (And if you are new around these parts CLICK HERE FOR BITCHMAS explanation) As with any major change in strategy, there are pros and cons to this approach. The con is that the entire family is subjected to my screaming and cursing over getting poked by needles, nativity scenes that are missing all important camels (and one year the baby Jesus…but let’s not go there again) and lights that malfunction. The pro side is, I don’t wear myself totally out trying to get it all done in 24 hours. See? Everyone wins.
All that being said, I’ll likely be missing for the rest of this week as I stuff my face make reasonable dining choices and terrorize my family hum Christmas carols while thoughtfully decorating.
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember….
PS: This post was done in consideration of Sprite’s Keepers theme of “What Are You Thankful For?” If you want to know what bloggers are thinking with more deep thoughts than I have, CLICK HERE.
Comments (13)
I've heard of it, never had it though.
It sounds like horrific gluttony. I think I'd pass.
I haven't tried it but I'd love to! Someone mentioned to my husband and I that they were springing for one for Christmas. Apparently they cost about $100. I'll be eating plain ole' turkey and dressing from Cracker Barrel this Thanksgiving!
I have not. It looks interesting.... but way too much protein in one helping for me! I'll take the turkey, thanks! :)
I'd just learned about it like a week ago... Not sure the flavors would mix well but I'd try it.
I learned of a Turducken on Trauma last night. I never even knew these existed. And I will probably never try it!
I've heard of it but have never had it.
And I'm making a vegan nut roast with stuffing to take to our family meal (along with some small servings of veganized favorites just for me).
I've heard that it's more show than taste...I'll pass. We tend to throw butter, salt, pepper and garlic at the turkey and pray...so far? So good.
We're going to my fiance's friend's house this year...and they're serving turducken. I've never tried it, and knowing what I know about it, it sickens me. (I'm an omnivore but still, I threatened to kill him, if there aren't any real veggies at this dinner.)
i've had it. *shudder*
it was really greasy, and the mix of the flavours of the meat was not good at all. It was nasty.
And you know how the whole house is supposed to smell great with a turkey just about done? Well, this smelled really really bad.
We don't eat turkey, because turkey (to our family) is a scavenger bird and we don't eat scavenger animals. We had a farm raised organic beef roast (from my uncle's farm). But that was back in October when we celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada.
@LadyGwenivere@xanga - Agreed, the mix of flavors isn't good. I was soooo excited while it was cooking, and when it was finally sliced and served.....so disappointing! I smothered my slice with gravy, at least the gravy was delicious. :P
@filtered_sunlight - I throw the tupperware at the leftovers and hope I get enough for another meal!
I have not nor do I plan too. Cooking that much meat layered on top of each other sound like a dry turkey and a barely cooked chicken to me!
As for just cooking a turkey, try it!!! Seriously, it's not that hard. I literally preped mine (my family comes to my house in the evening, dinner with the inlaws for lunch) and put it in the oven then went to my inlaws for dinner. Came home 4.5 hours later to a perfectly cooked bird! Lots of seasoned butter (two stickes) and some foil over the breast and we were good. Even the leftovers were juicy!