The Turducken is here! The Turducken is here!
It arrived last night from Cajun Grocer in a hermetically sealed pouch, inside a box, surrounded by dry ice packets, inside a Styrofoam container. It is quite spacey and moon landing-ish.
I opted to get my turducken from Cajon Grocer for two reasons:
- It was recommended by my sister’s friend, the GoTo Guy when it comes to strange foods and cooking methods, and
- It came by mail, so my sis did not have to make a trip to The Meat Market on one of busiest meat-shopping day of the year.
Also, GoTo Guy says The Meat Market does not make their turduckens on-site, even though the video makes it seem like they do. Is his information reliable? No idea, but watching the video where the demonstrator handled everything with bare hands - back and forth between seasoning containers, stuffing, and raw poultry - made me a little queasy.
Cajun Grocer has many turduckens to choose from and a plethora of side dishes, including crawfish dressing and New Orleans style bread pudding. I opted for plain old cornbread stuffing. Having turducken instead of regular turkey is as adventurous as I am prepared to get this year.
Cooking time is 4.5 to 5 hours. Gah! I need one of those refrigerator-ovens that keeps your food cool all day (or night) then turns itself on at an appointed time and cooks your food while you are still at work (or sleeping.) You can even change the programming by phone or Internet if something interferes with your original cooking schedule.
It’s only $5,895.00.
Well, since I will be up early on Thanksgiving shoving the turducken into my non-programmable oven, perhaps I will hop on the treadmill and get a little exercise before everyone gets here.
*crickets*
What. It could happen.
It DOES look just like a turkey. Are the "legs" drumsticks?
The drumsticks are a necessity at my house because the niece & nephew love to hold the entire drumstick and chop down like cavemen. Fortunately, youngest nephew is not crazy about meat, so has previously been uninterested in drumsticks. Let's hope that continues, or we find ourselves making two turkeys!
Posted by: Jenn Bo | November 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM
JennBo: Yes, everything is de-boned except the drumsticks. For authenticity purposes, apparently. :)
Posted by: GetSheila | November 21, 2008 at 06:02 PM
I always wonder...
Whenever you read about food saftey and stuffed birds, they always emphasize NOT to stuff the bird until the very last minute due to the chance of bacterial growth (some now recommend not stuffing a bird at all)...
Yet, here we have the stuffed turducken in all it's glory, and every supermarket sells stuffed poultry of various varieties ready to take home and roast or bake...
What's up with that?
On a side note... it's a good thing that bird is all meat and no bones as sitting next to that dinner fork it looks pretty small!
Posted by: JCW | November 23, 2008 at 01:15 PM
JCW: 15 poundages, practically all meat. Small but mighty.
Posted by: GetSheila | November 24, 2008 at 07:02 AM