Stuffing fun

[robinbloke]

I had a good conversation over the weekend over the concept of triple stuffed beasties, that is a pheasant inside a chicken inside a turkey - or similarly.
This begs the question of course, exactly how far could you take this... well, taking commonly (well, normally) eaten avians only, in rough order of size... I think...
A quail inside a partridge inside a duck inside a pheasant inside a chicken inside a turkey inside a goose inside an emu inside an ostrich. Thats nine... did I miss any?

With all this talk of fowl I think duck pancakes will have to be my birthday tea :)

Comments

[senji.livejournal.com]

But, why?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

That you even asked that question shocks me. A huge beastie of cooked avian glory in the oven the size of Kansas steaming with multiple meats? What could be better?

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

The scariest I have heard of is 5 :) :)

turkey-chicken-pheasant-duck-pigeon, or something like that :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

pigeon! I forgot that - thats 10! :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

A guy on TV did a 10 bird roast this christmas.

woodcock in the middle, turkey outside, and I forget the stuff in the middle!

[atreic.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/atreic/115063.html

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oh my word!!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

but cooking times would be insane and probably not very practical (the inner birds coming out either over- or undercooked)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Thats hardly the point ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You know me, I'm always practical.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Possibly why your food tastes so good!

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you add l;iberal amounts of stuffing / fat as you stuff, and then roast extremely slowly for a day or so and it all comes out succulent : )

A friend did 5 last Christmas - turkey, goose, chicken, duck, partridge, quail.

Don't forget snipe, woodcock, pigeon, plover, various sizes of ducks (from smallest teal to largest shelduck), larks (not entirely legal now, but used to be consumed in Olden Days - actually the Italians still eat Robins in places)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oooo Robins, I could eat my namesake :)

My stomach is rumbling again!

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Why limit yourself to birds? Just think what you could cram into a blue whale? You could even do an endangered species one?

BTW I have an idea to do a Summer Party at the Farm that amongst other things will involve a fire-pit, a hurdle, some baling wire and a whole lamb for the roasting! Interested?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's a definite yes from me!

[senji.livejournal.com]

What are you going to cook a blue whale in?

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

I think it would have to be a fair sized lagoon and a fair sized fuel/air BBQ!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Mount Vesuvius.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

hehe, good idea, use a railway rail as a spit and spit roast it!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Sounds great :) Definately!

[siranui.livejournal.com]

It's a traditional English dish, in fact.

A local butchers does three-bird specials over Xmas. Very nice it is two.

You could maybe squeeze a wren on the inside!

Wren, woodcock, pheasant/duck large chicken or goose, turkey.

Hmm... sparrow, sparrow hawk and then work your way up rare bords of prey until you end with golden eagle and then condor!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The logical step after condor would be llama.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, wonder what llama tastes like. I had goat over the weekend which I'd never had before, very nice it was too!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

"Llama makes good stews, burgers, sausages, cold cuts or smoked ham. Alpaca, a more-tender type of llama, comes as bistek llama, a grilled tenderloin with quinoa sauce, or Creole style, with tomatoes and onions."
From here.

description of llama meat

[siranui.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise that they had wings!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

That would be the albanian greater winged llama

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

They're on my "to eat" list :)

[siranui.livejournal.com]

A three-bird Xmas dinner, or a variety of near-extinct species?

Hmmm... Might be my PC, but I can never see your LJ replies to comments. I can only read them on my E-mail receipt.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Both :)

Try refresh; might be a caching issue?

[siranui.livejournal.com]

Not sure. I can see everyone else's comments, but blank white pages where yours should be with not even a lil' penguin at the side of the page.

It's the same on my work and home PCs. Running Internet Exploiter. V5, I think. I may try it with Nutscrape and see what that makes of it.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, my journal may need fixing

[davefish.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I must urge venta on with her plan to do something like this. She also managed to find a recipe which involved a pit roast, a camel, some sheep and 200 chicken. I suspect that the latter might require several people to assist with the munching though of!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well if she ever does, let me know!

[eviltwinemma.livejournal.com]

You could probably fit a couple more in there, plus i always thought turkeys were bigger than geese? - additions or changes in bold

Wren, Quail, Wood Pigeon, Guinea Fowl, Duck, Pheasant, Chicken, Turkey, Goose, Kiwi, Emu, Ostrich

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise kiwis were so big...

I'm very hungry now!

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

You could always try and clone a dodo!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Extinctastic

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

There's a Russian version that includes Ortoline (small somgbird) in the middle, stuffed with a stuffed olive :)

Goose would go inside turkey. Pigeon? Snipe?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

So many creatures, so little time to eat them all :)

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

Hippos Bidet! Hope you had a great one :-)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Banking Brew!