Our family's gathering already has plans for a smoked turkey and a roasted turkey for Thanksgiving. Traditional turkey is covered. I like to provide smaller BBQ side dishes for people to try as a taste on the side. Last Easter I made Smoked Bunny Salad. (Smoked rabbit turned into a chicken salad-like concoction. It was well received.)
This year I had plans to go to my local world market and buy ground ostrich or emu, turn it into a meatloaf, stuff it, and call it Mega Turkey Meatloaf. But the world market didn't have those choices for sale.
But I did find two pounds of ground duck. That got me to thinking, and here's what I came up with.
Back in the early 2000's, I went down the Turducken hole. I legit deboned a giant turkey, a duck, and a chicken. I put the chicken in the duck and then the duck in the turkey with stuffing inside. I tied it all up and monitored the IT until it was done, and then sliced it. It was beautiful and impressive, but the thought of ever doing that again makes me think dirty words. Been there done that, got the t-shirt. True turducken is for the mentally insane :-)
But! I have become pretty good at specialty BBQ Fatties wrapped in bacon. Stuffed meatloaf, stuffed breakfast sausage stuffed with eggs and cheese, etc.
So I decided this year I'm preparing a meatloaf made from a mix of ground duck and turkey. I'm laying a layer of the poultry meatloaf on a lattice work of bacon, then putting down cooked boneless/skinless chicken breasts. I'm rolling it up and smoking it to a safe IT with a bourbon glaze.
I'm going to slice it, drizzle with more bourbon glaze and top with some scallions. It'll be a modified version of Turducken wrapped in bacon.
Of course I'm going to post pics in SUWYC :-)
I was wondering, if you are planning something different? Something out of the box for Thanksgiving? What kind of innovations do we have going on out there?
Brian
This year I had plans to go to my local world market and buy ground ostrich or emu, turn it into a meatloaf, stuff it, and call it Mega Turkey Meatloaf. But the world market didn't have those choices for sale.
But I did find two pounds of ground duck. That got me to thinking, and here's what I came up with.
Back in the early 2000's, I went down the Turducken hole. I legit deboned a giant turkey, a duck, and a chicken. I put the chicken in the duck and then the duck in the turkey with stuffing inside. I tied it all up and monitored the IT until it was done, and then sliced it. It was beautiful and impressive, but the thought of ever doing that again makes me think dirty words. Been there done that, got the t-shirt. True turducken is for the mentally insane :-)
But! I have become pretty good at specialty BBQ Fatties wrapped in bacon. Stuffed meatloaf, stuffed breakfast sausage stuffed with eggs and cheese, etc.
So I decided this year I'm preparing a meatloaf made from a mix of ground duck and turkey. I'm laying a layer of the poultry meatloaf on a lattice work of bacon, then putting down cooked boneless/skinless chicken breasts. I'm rolling it up and smoking it to a safe IT with a bourbon glaze.
I'm going to slice it, drizzle with more bourbon glaze and top with some scallions. It'll be a modified version of Turducken wrapped in bacon.
Of course I'm going to post pics in SUWYC :-)
I was wondering, if you are planning something different? Something out of the box for Thanksgiving? What kind of innovations do we have going on out there?
Brian
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