Turducken Week – When 3 regular birds just isn’t enough
Here’s the top 5 turducken variations I’ve seen that take the whole “chicken in a duck in a turkey” thing to another level.
1. 12 Bird “True Love” Turducken – Turk-oo-du-fo-mal-sin-ail-tridge-on-sant-en-duck
1. Turkey, 2. Goose, 3. Barbary duck, 4. Guinea fowl, 5. Mallard, 6. Poussin, 7. Quail, 8. Partridge, 9. Pigeon squab, 10. Pheasant, 11. Chicken, 12. Aylesbury duck
Holy cow, right? The ‘”true love” bird is modeled after the 12 days of Christmas, feeds 125 people, is roughly 50,000 calories, and takes 8 hours to cook.
2. 5 pound bacon turkducken – Turbaconducken
Sure, it looks like just a turkey or maybe a “plain ol’ turducken” wrapped in bacon, but really, every bird piece inside was also wrapped in bacon, totaling 5 pounds worth of bacon.
3. Goochiphetridge and Quaducant
The standard three birds are too boring apparently, so these guys mixed them up. The first is a goose, chicken, pheasant, and partridge. The second is only 6 pounds total with a quail breast and duck breast stuffed with Creole sausage and then placed in a deboned pheasant (quadruple threat).
4. TurBaconEpic
“A bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig.” = 79,046 calories and 6,892g of fat
This was actually the first Epic Meal Time video I ever saw. If you’ve never seen any of them, uh, prepare yourself…it’s a lot of food, so not-always PG references, and maybe even a few gross moments of indulgence.
5. TurBaconEpicCentipede with Baconators
Same rules apply here with not-so-PG references, crazy indulgence, and a whole heck of a lot of food. Lots of birds, lots of bacon, lots of pigs, and lots of YouTube celebrities at this crazy celebration.
Turducken Week – 12 layer cheese ball cheeseducken
- Semi-firm cheese like bucheret
- Cream cheese
- Spanish chorizo
- Manchego cheese
- Dried figs
- Emmentaler cheese
- Italian parsley and chives
- Sharp cheddar cheese
- Asian pear
- Bleu cheese
- Walnuts
- Chèvre/fresh goat cheese
- Almonds and pecans
- Thick-cut bacon
- Now that is one heck of a cheeseball, huh? Awesomely enough, the article on Chowhound has a step-by-step picture tutorial with exact ingredients and tips on how to make your own, too.
Food landscapes – Broccoli trees, filet of fish sea, foodscapes, mmm
Nablopomo – Scenery
Now this guy knows how to play with his food!
Carl Warner has dozens more of these foodscapes in his portfolio, but I’ve gotta say, I really prefer his older work that looks like the last set of pictures on this page. The new stuff looks mostly just Photoshopped. Still artistic and cool to look at, but I have a much harder time picturing that someone actually put it together with real food.
Enjoy some more of these pictures and check out the original artist’s website for much bigger pictures (I set one as my desktop wallpaper) and a bunch more awesomeness.
(Filet of fish sea with a pea canoe? Lovely!)
I love that there’s a prep picture shown. I would’ve just assumed everything was painted or produced online to begin with, rather than being able to believe it was all done out of real food. Yummy.
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