12/17/2004 09:47:00 PM|W|P|Starflier|W|P|Welp, it's been a while since I Blogged last, ' reccon' I'd best do somthin' fer Christmas least. (My spell checker really didn't like that sentience) If you're planning on hosting a family get-together over the holidays, there are some things you should consider: For one, if you're carting in family from out of _____ (insert "town", "province", "state", "country" or "planet" as required) be sure to plan your appetizers carefully. Remember that in certain cultures a nut encrusted cheese ball is considered a weapon and may cause some tension. Also, shrimp rings are a favored headdress among indigenous Amazonian tribes. If anyone at your party has been frozen in a glacier for the past five hundred years, do not serve pretzels or chocolate, as you will most likely find yourself accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. The same goes with taking pictures, turning on lights, opening Christmas crackers, being clean, blinking… If you live through to the actual meal please note that thanks to the Atkins diet, not one person at the table will eat the potatoes, the turnips, the bread, the corn or the gravy. Anyone who is not on Atkins will have a wheat allergy, a yeast allergy or a starch allergy, leaving you and maybe the guy you found in the glacier (who's either too old or too hungry to care about carbs) to eat it all. Aw shucks, eh? When you serve the ham be sure to hide a couple slices for you and Amon, because the starving Atkins/Allergic people are planning on filling up on it. Also if you've stuck a bunch of cloves in it be sure to warn everyone; nothing is more embarrassing or painful than getting a clove hopelessly wedged between your front teeth. Take it for someone that knows. Nothing. And finally for the crowning glory of the dinner, the Piece duh Resistance, as Dave Barry would say "Le Papion Fromage" (literately "The Cheesy Butterfly") and if I may be so frank , If it happens to be Turkey, you're way behind the curve. Turkey is dead man. (Can you imagine how noisy it would be to eat otherwise?) The push these days seems to be towards the Tur-Duck-In, which is essentially a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. Deep-frying adds another dimension. e.g. I personally think that the whole deal with de-boning three birds sounds like an awful lot of work, so here's my recipe that completely circumvents the whole de-boning thing: 1. take a Chicken DNA (CDNA) strand, available from JPL, MIB or KFC 2. take a single duck feather, remove one fiber and disolve it in water. 3. using a scanning tunneling microscope and really little tweezers, graft some strands from the duck DNA (DDNA) onto the CDNA you acquired in step one. (note: unless you want a three-headed legless turduckin, make sure that they're corresponding strands) 4. inject the resulting CD DNA into the yolk of a turkey egg. 5. incubate the egg for about three weeks or until hatched. 6. feed turducken twice a day, the amount you feed it will depend on the size you want your turdukan to be. 7. when turduckling has reached desired consistency -er- size; kill, feather, skin, gut, wash, season, stuff, foil and bake on 450 for as many hours as it takes. 8. eat, you deserve it. Or if you want to do it the old fashioned way here's the original If you've tried Turduckin and want to expand a bit you could stuff the turkey into an emu. they can prove to be a bit expensive, but with a bit of luck can usually be found running along side the highway. Or if you want to do something completely different (and want to feed everyone on your block) you could try doing a roast camel like they do at East Indian weddings: Stuffed Camel 1 whole camel, medium size 1 whole lamb, large size 20 whole chickens, medium size 60 eggs 12 kilos rice 2 kilos pine nuts 2 kilos almonds 1 kilo pistachio nuts 110 gallons water 5 pounds black pepper Salt to taste Skin, trim and clean camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80-100. - Shararazod Eboli Home Economist, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Now if you get a couple more RSVPs than you bargained and need a bit more food I've got one more recipe and after that you're on your own: Elephant Stew Submitted by: A Kitchen Guest 1 medium sized elephant 2 rabbits (optional) salt and pepper to taste brown gravy (lots) Cut elephant in small bite size pieces. This will take about two months. Reserve the trunk, you will need something to store pieces in. Add enough brown gravy to cover. Cook over kerosene fire for about four weeks at 465 degrees. This will serve about 3,800 people. If more are expected, the two rabbits may be added. Do this only if necessary, as most people do not like to find hare in their stew. That aughta keep you cooking for a while. And be sure to tell Glacier Man I said "hi" Bibliography http://www.commanderkitty.com http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/camel.asp http://www.mcgees.com/kitchen/kidstuff.htm |W|P|110335250366120607|W|P||W|P|starflier@gmail.com11/05/2005 12:56:00 AM|W|P|Anonymous how to cook lobster|W|P|Hi Robin
I never realised that so many different types of blog would show up if I did a search on something like how to cook turkey. I'm still not sure how well this post fits into that category, but I've enjoyed visiting :0) Adios Amigo.11/05/2005 03:39:00 AM|W|P|Anonymous How to cook chicken|W|P|Well, I've enjoyed my visit to this post, but I'm not sure it's what I was looking for. I was actually searching for articles on how to cook chicken - these search engines are weird! Just thought I'd say hello while I'm here :0)11/06/2005 11:16:00 AM|W|P|Anonymous how to cook lobster|W|P|I have no idea what I'm doing here - I was actually looking for articles on how to cook cabbage. I guess I must have found a search engine with a sense of humor.

Still, no harm done. Just thought I'd say hello.
Best wishes
Michael11/06/2005 04:02:00 PM|W|P|Anonymous how to cook turkey|W|P|G'day Starflier
I seem to have found this post while searching for things on how to cook salmon. I can see why, but I'm not sure it's exactly what I'm looking for. Just thought I'd say hello :0)11/08/2005 05:07:00 PM|W|P|Anonymous how to cook cabbage|W|P|I have no idea what I'm doing here - I was actually looking for articles on how to cook salmon. I guess I must have found a search engine with a sense of humor.

Still, no harm done. Just thought I'd say hello.
Best wishes
Michael11/08/2005 05:50:00 PM|W|P|Anonymous asparagus|W|P|Hi
I was searching for articles on lobster when I came across this post, which is a bit weird really. I've enjoyed the experience but I'm not at all sure I've found what I'm looking for :0)

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