Place many large rocks on the bonfire (careful – they may explode, particularly if they are river rocks),
Dig a large hole.
Place about half of the now very hot rocks into the hole.
Wrap the flock or whatever the hell you call the bird-dog-pile in banana leaves, with copious seasoning between the leaves and the meat.
Lower the leaf-wrapped meat into the pit, preferably with non-coated metal wires so that you can use the wire to later recover the food.
Bury the sides and top of the meat in the pit with the remainder of the very hot rocks.
Bury the top of the hot rocks with dirt. If you are hoity-toity, consider landscaping.
Wait six or eight hours (or more, depending on the volume of the flock), then exhume the meat. It will be fully cooked and succulent, but not excessively greasy.
The feast may now begin, unless one of the birds was a merganser, in which case just throw it out in the trash.
Place many large rocks on the bonfire (careful – they may explode, particularly if they are river rocks),
Dig a large hole.
Place about half of the now very hot rocks into the hole.
Wrap the flock or whatever the hell you call the bird-dog-pile in banana leaves, with copious seasoning between the leaves and the meat.
Lower the leaf-wrapped meat into the pit, preferably with non-coated metal wires so that you can use the wire to later recover the food.
Bury the sides and top of the meat in the pit with the remainder of the very hot rocks.
Bury the top of the hot rocks with dirt. If you are hoity-toity, consider landscaping.
Wait six or eight hours (or more, depending on the volume of the flock), then exhume the meat. It will be fully cooked and succulent, but not excessively greasy.
The feast may now begin, unless one of the birds was a merganser, in which case just throw it out in the trash.
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Been there, done that*. I wasn’t all that impressed.
A tuduckinoostrich sounds interesting, but it’s a bit common.
At the Dextrin household this year, we’re going to try out a DodAukPeckgeon - a Passenger Pigeon stuffed in an Ivory Billed Woodpecker stuffed inside a Great Auk all wrapped in a Dodo.
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A tuduckinoostrich sounds interesting, but it’s a bit common.
At the Dextrin household this year, we’re going to try out a DodAukPeckgeon - a Passenger Pigeon stuffed in an Ivory Billed Woodpecker stuffed inside a Great Auk all wrapped in a Dodo.
(best served very rare)
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Can I borrow your time machine? I want to go bitchslap someone about 20 years ago.
[QUOTE=picunurse] Smith, I hate to tell you, since you’ve already purchased the bird in birds, but ostrich is very dry and tasteless. I had it a couple years ago. I think putting all the other birds in a cardboard box will give you the same flavor and texture.
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Where did you get your ostrich? I have had some great ostrich - juicy, and rare, more like beef than poultry. Yum
[QUOTE=JThunder]
A turducken is a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey. It seems to me that what you’re describing should be more properly called an osgooturducken.
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No, that’s a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey stuffed into Charles Osgood.
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That’s ok, goose is extremely fatty and greasy.
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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I heard that too.
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[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya]
Iv’e read somewhere that goose is incredibly greasy.
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In case all of you masters of the vicarious would like a first-hand report, I’ve cooked goose for holiday dinners a number of times, and as long as you prepare it properly, it’s not overly greasy at all. I’ve barbecued it (yummy) and done it in the oven like a turkey. The legs certainly aren’t an epicurean delight, but goose breast is quite tasty.
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Smith, I hate to tell you, since you’ve already purchased the bird in birds, but ostrich is very dry and tasteless.
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I’ll disagree with this one, too. I’ve had ground ostrich in burgers. They weren’t as greasy as beef-burgers, which is fine with me! I’ve also had ostrich jerky and liked it quite a bit. It was dry, of course, but jerky is supposed to be dry.