The weather was unusually great one day and unusually shitty the other. We made some great food - Rindsrouladen from Ulrike Grandma's recipe, Fondue on Christmas Eve and Turducken on the 25th. Melissa baked some awesome cookies, quiches, cake and onion rolls.
Needless to say the kids went nuts and played the whole time. They had a blast.
Here are some pix from the place:
Nice old officer's house.
The houses were all built the exact same way in that "officer's row". This is in fact a cascading image of all of the porches lining up perfectly.
Kids got to eat first, since they wanted really simple stuff. plus then the grown ups had time to enjoy a peaceful meal without food being thrown around and screaming going on.
This is the house we rented in Port Townsend, Fort Warden more specifically. It was a really cool old officer's mansion. Nice wraparound porch would be great in the summer. It had huge ceilings and all of the old molding in tact. Good thing it wasn't renovated to death!
View from the front porch.
We took the kids to the beach and they played around in the sand.
Milo discovered this obscure carving. Is it an AI? Or an N with a blemish in the middle? We'll probably never know.
We took the ferry back home via Edmonds. Watson and I shared a coffee and a cream cheese something:
Turducken
I saw something about Turducken on the Food Channel. I think it was on strange foods or something. It struck me as the original Americana Theme in every way: gratuitous amounts of meat. Insane preparation time (36 hours to be precise). Gratuitous stuffing of things into other things. Complete disrespect for the animal's original purpose.
So all of this at hand we set out to get the Turkey, the duck, and the chicken. Alas, Walmart didn't have any ducks left so we substituted duck with goose. Really we then ended with a Trugoosen, but still. three animals stuffed in one another is quite the feat.
Here I am deboning the goose.
Done deboning goose and chicken. Said is helping by deboning the turkey. Really I thought the deboning would be a total bitch and difficult and easy to fuck up but it wasn't. You just kind of cut out the rib cage part and then saw away at the wings and legs. Just takes forever, that's all.
Then we put the beast into the oven.
You can see here how crazy this is. The turkey has the goose inside of it, so you can kind of see it sticking out of the turkey's butt (since the good is longer). Completely mantled inside is the chicken. There is also a ton of stuffing and for fun I added bacon and breakfast sausage as well.
After 9 hours of slow cooking at 250, this is what we got!
Carving the turducken is totally easy - cut through the middle.
And it didn't look so bad either. I have to say though the goose was extra gross so don't try it with a goose.
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