Turducken Watch 2009

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!

I'm spending the day with my friendmily and the main course, the piece de resistance is TURDUCKEN!

Yes, you read that correctly, Turducken. What is a Turducken? It's a chicken stuffed into a duck which is then stuffed into a turkey. When I first heard about this, I of course though that it was some sort of mythical thing, you know like a unicorn or Nessie. Nope, turns out that shit is real and is gonna be cooked in our kitchen today. God help us all, we've got the doctor on speed dial and 10 bottles of Kaopectate on hand!

Here's a link for a description and the recipe for the Turducken.

Here's a pic of what it should look once it's done and carved for serving:

I'll update the blog throughout the day to let you know how we're all doing; you know if there's foodpoisoning, explosive diarrhea, salmonella etc. ( I keed I keed...not really, please pray for our survivial)

Hope you all have a great day with your own friendmalies!

Please be safe and responsible. If you're going to drive do NOT drink. If you're going to drink do NOT drive.

Dazz


UPDATE #1: 12:53p.m. Dinner is served! Everything looks so good! Dig in! Gryff is carving the Turducken now. Fingers crossed, lovies!

UPDATE # 2: 2:32p.m. Before I succumb to the impending and inevitable food coma, I must respectfully admit that the Turducken is no myth; it is real!
Okay, this thing took for fucking ever to prepare but it was totally worth it! I have one word to describe it - succulent. Seriously it was really good (and you all know how skeptical I was about this whole thing) and the combination of the different flavors and textures of the three meats plus the stuffing in between each...mmmmm *drooling on keyboard*

So, we all ate too damn much and there has been the ubiquitous unzipping of the jeans (I didn't have to do this as I learned my lesson at Thanksgiving and so wore a pair of yoga pants with an elasticized waist today! What? They're practical!) The table is clear kitchen is clean and tidy (we clean and wash the dishes as we cook go so there's no massive clean-up at the end) and now we're hanging out in the living room moaning about eating too much and watching a 'How It's Made' marathon on the Science Channel. What? Everyone should know how steering columns are made!

So far we all feel good; no signs of any nefarious side effects from consuming the Turducken.
I'll keep you posted...

UPDATE #3: 6:38p.m. So far so good; still no signs of any adverse effects from the Turducken.

So after watching 2 episodes of 'How It's Made' we all decided that we really didn't want to know how certain things were actually made (preferring to continue to think that cookies were baked by magical elves who live in trees) so we decided to watch a movie. Of course we couldn't agree on anything showing on cable so we ended up watching the one movie that we ALL agree on because each of us have seen it over a 100 times EACH - The Lion King. C'mon, don't scoff, the Lion King is awesome! We know all the dialog and the songs - there is nothing better in this world than a bunch of happy-assed people still in the remnants of a food coma singing Hakuna Matata at the tops of their lungs. I'll give you a visual...13 adults doing the 'Hakuna Matata' dance all throughout the living room in a pseudo conga line formation. What dance, you ask? It's the part where Timon, Pumbaa and Simba are walking across the bridge and you see Simba growing from a cub into an adult lion, strutting and shaking his mane from side to side. Yah, that is the 'dance'. LMAO.

Love that movie, I cried when Mufasa died. Yes, I cried when an animated lion Disney character died. I make no apologies. It is what it is.

Oh and Disney, if you want people to HATE the character of Scar, why did you have him voiced by the sexy awesomeness that is Jeremy Irons? Good God, that man's voice is like liquid sex! It's like the casting of Alan Rickman as Severus Snape...I can't hate movie Snape because he is dead sexy and his voice...he brings the quiver just by saying 'turn to page 394'!!!!!!!!!

Anyhoo, now we're getting ready for dessert. There's a lot to choose from but I'm going with my tried and true combination - a slice of 'death by chocolate' cake and a scoop of pistachio ice-cream. Ah, there is nothing like the love of your friendmily as you enjoy great food and inane conversation...the current conversation is a debate that spray tan solutions/sun less tanning creams etc. are poisoning us and could potentially be worse than using a tanning bed. Yep...friendmily.

FINAL UPDATE: 8:13p.m. All is well. What a wonderful day we had. The Turducken was a success and we all agree that it will be a permanent fixture on the Christmas Dinner menu.

Our compliments to our awesome Chef who is reading this over my shoulder simpering and then trying to be angry at us for thinking that his Turducken would kill us! Well done, love!

I hope that you all had a great day spent with your loved ones as well.

Again, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and here's wishing you and yours a Healthy and Prosperous 2010.

Love,

Dazz