Until now I'd thought that the monster that is Turducken (a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken) sprang fully-formed from the head of Chef Paul Prudhomme, a Zeus and Athena kind of thing. Probably due to the go go days of ragin' Cajun cuisine, when everything was blackened-this, Zydeco-that, and we cared about the difference between gumbo and jambalaya and étouffée, Prudhomme's recipe for Turducken* was a beacon from shining down from Mt. Olympus, a feast for the gods mere mortals could only dream of partaking.
As Miranda Priestly explained in The Devil Wears Prada, the great ideas that start with the creative geniuses eventually wend their way down the food chain to the masses. Oscar de la Renta's collection of cerulean gowns begat Yves Saint Laurent's cerulean military jackets. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.
As so too has Turducken followed Cerulean's downward trajectory: from Paul Prudhomme to his disciples to the 580,000 sources on Google to buy a frozen, ready-to-go, mass-produced monolith. Sadly, my experience with Turducken here to know been limited to the these tragic outlets far removed from the master's creative hand.
Which brings me to my recipe for Turducken Sausages. The good folks at Punk Domestics have thrown down the gauntlet for their Charcutepalooza. My skill and experience crafting homemade sausages wasn't the challenge; my sturdy KitchenAid food grinder and sausage stuffer predates the birth of many of the kids in the office. It's just myriad recipes have already been perfected. You got your pork, your duck, your lamb, beef and turkey. My butcher churns out delicious merguez, linguica, chorizo, a large selection of the Italian cannon and the best of the wursts.
So what to do, what to do? Eureka! The exquisite Turducken made manageable via the sausage stuffer. The time has come for Turducken's comeback.
The idea was the only hard part; implementation was easy (watch the video here). Turducken Sausages delicious simply pan-fried or grilled. I went a step further and slow-smoked some of the links with mesquite (remember mesquite?). Was it worth it? Oh yes, yes indeed.
Click here for the recipe for Turducken Sausages.
*The idea of animal stuffed within animal stuffed within animal is certainly not a new one. The excellent Pulitzer-winning bio of Cleopatra describes an elaborate banquette featuring a pig stuffed with all manner of beasts (fish, foul, a reptile or two I recall…)
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