It's the first time I come across this dish from a book titled " It must've been something that I ate" by food critic Jeffrey Steingarten. A Tur-duck-en takes a chicken, duck and a turkey; debone them and stuff a chicken into the duck and then the duck into the turkey. Neat, eh?
You see, I've just read about the dish; not tasted it. And I think I probably won't ever. Can't fancy myself deboning a chicken; much less a duck and a TURKEY! And then to stuff them one inside the other. It'd probably take me 3 days.
But this dish reminded me of a song I have often sang to my kids. It goes like this:
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly;
She swallowed a fly, She swallowed a fly;
I think she'd die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a spider;
She followed a spider to catch the fly;
She swallowed a fly, She swallowed a fly;
I think she'd die.
Then repeat the song with : swallowed a cat to catch the spider; swallowed a dog to catch the cat; ending ridiculously with swallowed a horse to swallow the dog....and Of course she's dead.
Always makes my kids laugh and to stop them from opening their mouths for a while...
And the TURKEY always reminds me of Pa slaughtering the turkey we reared in Jalan Siputeh. Pa sat on the turkey to kill it. The bird is so large and I can't figure out how pa had the courage to do that.
But of course, we had a nice turkey dish after that. Ma cooked it chinese style with golden needles, red dates, cinamon, five-spiced powder, etc. The bird was stewed to perfection and that lasted us for lunch and dinner as well.
Ah...those wonderful days when meals are prepared for me.
Friday, September 16, 2005
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