{"id":4829,"date":"2003-11-26T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/26\/4829\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:02:11","slug":"turducken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4829","title":{"rendered":"Turducken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want something slightly exotic for Thanksgiving, but not <i>too<\/i> exotic?  Time is tunning out, but there is an interesting alternative to a simple ham or turkey, and I&#8217;m not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshtofu.com\/tofu_turkey.html\">tofurkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nIt&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/directory.google.com\/Top\/Home\/Cooking\/World_Cuisines\/North_American\/Cajun-Creole\/Cajun\/Turducken\/?il=1\">turducken<\/a><\/i>&#8211; a turkey stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Although it also sounds like a Pokemon name.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nASH:  Turducken!  I choose you!!<br \/>\nTURDUCKEN:  Turducken!!!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>  <b>Stuffed Camel<\/b> goes one step further- it&#8217;s a whole camel, stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with 20 whole chickens, each stuffed with 3 eggs.  This from a book called <i>International Cuisine<\/i> (California Home Economics Teachers, 1983 (ISBN 0-89626-051-8)), but it&#8217;s also copied on the web all over the place.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nI know the idea is the flavors transfer, but come on people&#8230; I am very skeptical that the eggs are going to have a camel flavor.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>It actually seems to me that turducken is cheating a little bit- all the recipes I have seen involve cooking the components and then assembling them&#8230; which doesn&#8217;t really let the flavors mingle together at all.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<b>Example<\/b>:  a <i>mirepoix<\/i> of chopped celery, onion, and carrot can be made into a bed on which to cook meat, for example pork.  In some recipes, the vegetables are <b>thrown away<\/b> after cooking, because their flavor has already infused into the meat.  The budget-conscious chefs I know who do this instead take the vegetables and make a low-cal snack with them- the vegetables are now slightly pork-flavored, but still low in fat.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nBut the point of that recipe is the <b>flavor transfer<\/b>.  How much turkey flavor is in the chicken in the center of a turducken?  I dunno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want something slightly exotic for Thanksgiving, but not too exotic? Time is tunning out, but there is an interesting alternative to a simple ham or turkey, and I&#8217;m not talking about tofurkey. It&#8217;s turducken&#8211; a turkey stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken. Although it also sounds like a Pokemon name. ASH: Turducken! I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}