Pics from my Turducken: Better late then never

[jstallman]

Hello, I'm James, I created this thread before Thanksgiving:

http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f17/turducken-i-have-several-questions-76207.html

I wanted to let you all know, I did make my Turducken for thanksgiving, I know that was months ago, but I just got the pics up from a lost SD card and wanted to thank you all for the advice. The Turducken was amazing. It took 3 days of prep, that involves deboning the 3 birds, brining the turkey and chicken, letting the birds dry after the brining, making a creole seasoning sauce, filling the turkey with the birds and creole sauce, injecting the bird, basting every 2 hours, and a slow cook for 10 hours.

Pics:
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/members/43687-albums831.html

 

[Whiskadoodle]

Congratulations on your great effort for you to make this for thanksgiving ! Your pics look like it turned out great. I have a question, never having eaten Turducken-- Can you taste the different flavors of the birds? Or, do they combine together to make one composite flavor?
Thanks for sharing your pics.

 

[Dawgluver]

Oh my!

Very nice, James!

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Beautiful! Thanks for the pictorial!

 

[jstallman]

Well, you can taste each flavor, though they all have a the same creole seasoning. The duck is great because it being so fatty and juicey prevents the turkey and chicken from drying out. It's best to mix a bite of duck with every piece of Turkey or chicken if possible, because it's obviously the most flavorful.

Thanks for the comments. I am so paranoid about the idea of a dry turkey, cause that could ruin a meal, so I did everything in the book to this think, and smothered it in sauce and flavor. Having a boneless Turkey makes it easier to make sure you get flavor everywhere cause you can reach every normally hard to reach place.

I also brined it in some amazing stock broth.

 

[jstallman]

Oh and guys, if you have the time to sit down and spend half an hour deboning a turkey, the idea of a Turducken isn't nearly as intimidating as some of the forums I checked played it out to be.