Turducken is for sissies
Posted on December 19, 2007
Filed Under: Food and Wine
Tagged: food, holiday, maxpitch media, turducken
I first learned about the Turducken from Jim at MaxPitch Media and this fantastic holiday beast feast has since become a steady source of conversation in our household (don’t ask why, we’re weird that way).
Today, I stumbled across the Turducken to end all Turduckens.
Ladies and gents, may I present the Turgoobarfowlmalpousquapartsquapheachucken.
This roast of 48 birds of 12 different species costs £665, serves 125 people, and is the creation of Anne Petch, a farmer from Devon.
Anne, who runs the Heal Farm shop near Kings Nympton, said: “The True Love Roast has a bird for each of the 12 days of Christmas.
“It uses skinless breast meat from several birds of each species with flavours that work well together.”
The roast contains turkey, goose, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon squab, Aylesbury duck, Barbary duck, poussin, guinea fowl, mallard-and quail with herb and fruit stuffings.
Anne added: “It takes about 45 minutes to build the roast. However, it takes at least three hours before that to bone the birds and another couple of days to make all the stuffings.
There’s great comments on the article over at the dailymail.co.uk site too. Go read them.
[source: dailymail.co.uk]
A visit with Santa
Posted on December 15, 2007
Filed Under: Family
Tagged: ayn, christmas, holiday, photos, santa, teagan, willow lawn
I’ve been so slack about posting photos lately so I got up early this morning to get a bunch done before the holidays arrive.
Here’s a photo set from our recent trip to see Santa at Willow Lawn Mall (which has the best Santa - so there). This is the first year Teagan has actually talked to Santa. Ayn did well too - she seemed fascinated by his beard and didn’t lose it until the very end.