{"id":408,"date":"2009-12-26T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougandruth.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2014-03-30T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:35:37","slug":"turducken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/turducken\/","title":{"rendered":"Turducken"},"content":{"rendered":"
There was a lot of support for a Christmas dinner centered around turducken<\/a>. Our nephews are big fans of Cajun cooking if only because of advertisements for a marinade injecting tool called the Cajun Injector<\/a>. How could we not take on this culinary challenge?<\/p>\n The process begins with trying to buy a fresh turkey, duck and chicken two days before Christmas. Thankfully there is Whole Foods Market<\/a> – a store that has all three and asks only the question, “Would you like organic, super organic, or extra super organic?” In other words, how much would you like to spend on a turkey? There is no limit.<\/p>\n On the eve of Christmas Eve we start out with Ruth making traditional bread stuffing, cornbread and sausage stuffing and dirty rice stuffing. Doug is deboning the birds.<\/p>\n Lesson number one is to allow four hours in this process. I’m sure there are people in Louisiana who can knock these out in fifteen minutes, but if you have never done it before and have only instructions from the Internet to go by, plan on finishing around midnight.<\/p>\n Removing the bones is a bit of a Zen process. Every example seems only to say, “cut down the back then remove the bones.” Now we understand why. There is no good way to describe it. You just have to do it. Start with the chicken, ruin it, then move on. You’ll do better with the duck.<\/p>\n Lesson number two is don’t remove all the skin. You want to remove as much excess fat as possible, but most of the meat is connected only by the skin and you want one contiguous piece when you are done.<\/p>\n Here are some pictures of the assembly process:<\/p>\n \n\t\t \n \n\t\tThe turkey topped with cornbread stuffing.<\/h4>\n
Add the duck topped with rice stuffing.<\/h4>\n \n\t\t
Add the chicken topped with bread stuffing.<\/h4>\n \n\t\t
Wrap\u00a0 up the chicken in the duck.<\/h4>\n \n\t\t
Wrap the duck in the turkey.<\/h4>\n \n\t\t
From the front.<\/h4>\n \n\t\t