Has anyone ever tried making a turgoosen?
No but my legend of a dad has bought one for Christmas this year, I’m about as excited as the time I got a Spiderman outfit for my 7th birthday!
Any ideas on the gravy? Just a standard de-fat, de-glaze with wine and stock situation? The turgoosen has apricots and some other stuff between the layers so wondering if it needs anything else in there, maybe a hit of cranberry jelly or some apricot jam perhaps?
I hate to be the one that points this out, but I’m not sure I could ever eat something that had t-u-r-d as the first four letters. Whose clever marketing idea was that?
No shitake mushrooms for you then!
Me, I’ll eat anything if it tastes good - who cares what it’s called!
I hear it can be greasy.
Come on somebody had to say it
Yep, that’s where today’s came from. I saw it a few days ago just after it arrived. That thing is huge!
And I don’t care if it’s horrible for me. It’s not like I’d eat it every day.
And I’m glad that you did.
Pfft. I won’t eat anything that contains fewer than 12 different birds.
My God, it looks like somebody skinned Cthulhu!
I actually gasped aloud in horror.
If you have a good butcher, they can do the deboning for you, then save the bones for stock.
I have told my husband that I HAVE to do a turducken on the Big Green Egg for next year. With sausage and apple stuffing, so it has four meats in it.
I totally forgot to come back and update everyone on how the turducken was! Our weekend was crazy, because my sister got the stomach flu on Wednesday, so with her being our only guest, we thought it was prudent to move Thanksgiving to Friday.
Anyway, the meat was delicious…moist, flavorful. If you love duck, I would highly recommend it. If you are just a fan of turkey, though, I’m not sure the turkey meat itself was any better than the brined turkeys we usually make.
The one thing I was disappointed in was the stuffing. We ordered the sausage & cornbread, and it was kind of unappetizing to me. The sausage was packed in hard, and was very pink in color…not like the sausage I am used to. And it was not mixed in with the cornbread. It was like a hard layer of sausage, a layer of moist cornbread crumbs, then the chicken, duck, and turkey layered on top. Luckily, I had decided to make bread stuffing, just because everyone likes it so much. I don’t think anyone ate any of the other.
Now I have about 10 pounds of meat I’m trying to use up. Any suggestions? 