Turducken

BEEF is pretty much the only thing NOT for dinner :)

Craig has been drooling over this turducken thing for about a year now and finally decided to try it this christmas dinner. Turducken is a Turkey that is deboned and stuffed with a deboned duck and deboned chicken. Craig's aunt Lorreta was very sad she couldn't be with us to experience the turducken adventure and begged me to document the whole thing... So here you go :)

DECEMBER 24th

5:45 PM - Derek and Craig started preparing stuffing #1. Chopped the peppers and onions

6:00 - Seasoned with spices

6:10 - Combined Peper mixture w/ corn bread stuffing

(Stuffing #1)

6:15 - Cut up sausage for second Stuffing

6:45 - Mixed Second Stuffing

(Stuffing #2)

7:15 - Deboned the Duck

(derek had to take over deboning the duck due to injury... he sliced his finger)

***quick break for the christmas eve celebration***

9:30 - Deboned the Turkey

(washing the turkey)

DECEMBER 25th

7:00 AM - Layered the meats and stuffing and tied everything together

8:00 AM - Turducken in the oven at 225 degrees UNCOVERED

12:00 PM - Spread top with olive oil and COVERED with foil

3:30 PM - Increased oven temperature to 300 degrees (turkey temp was only 140 degrees)

4:30 - still not ready

5:30 - still not ready

6:30 - Still not ready

7:30 - Not quite ready but internal temp has reached a safe 170 degrees so we are EATING IT!!!!