Christmas 2011 - Turducken

Unlike every year, we decided to order a Turducken instead of a Turkey.

A turducken is a dish made of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey. This gives the name tur-duc-ken (tur as in turkey, duc as in duck and ken as in chicken)

Cold Storage sells a turducken for at least SGD 200 while Gastronomia has a 5 bird turkey at SGD 420 for a 7kg bird. The 5 bird turkey consists of guinea fowl, chicken, wild duck, quail and turkey.

I have always wanted to try one turducken and we decided to try a roll instead.
Heard many good reviews about Friends @ Jelita and we bought a coupon from Groupon, where a 2kg Turducken cost $88.

This is just a 1kg Turducken roll. We had two of these. 

In addition to the sauce, we bought a few items to go with the turducken, such as

Cranberry sauce

And BBQ beans

Corn...

This is how it looks like when you cut it. 

Rating
 


My Ramblings...
Somehow, having a roll does not make the festive mood complete.
The roll is arranged with duck slices, chicken bits and covered with turkey chucks. All these ingredients is then wrapped with bacon to hold it in place.

I still miss cutting the turkey to slices (even if it is deboned).
So, for next year, I will stick to my Gastronomia deboned turkey.
What is Christmas without a whole turkey as the centrepiece of the dining table?

Christmas Delights - Ham off the bone

My cousin from Australia gave us the Bertocchi Ham off the Bone (boneless ham) for Christmas.
This is leg ham which is hickory smoked.

We decided to roast it for dinner and topped up with peaches and broccoli.

Christmas 2010 - Turkey from Gastronomia

For the past few years, I have always ordered turkey from Paulaner, where the turkey cost about $138 for a 6 kg bird.

Paulaner serves good turkey but I have a bad habit, that is, I will avoid ordering the same things too many times from a single place.

Hence, for this year, I did all my research and chanced upon Gastronomia, which is part of Da Paolo group.
Their turkey cost $60 per kg, with a minimum weight of 3.5kg. The cheapest turkey will be about $210.

One unique feature about their turkey is that it is deboned.

This turkey is stuffed with quail eggs, duck liver, chestnuts, figs, fennel, seasoned with herbs and spices.
The sauce that comes with it is Sambuca sauce (which is an Italian anise-flavoued liquer)


Look at the generous amount of stuffing.
Normally, the stuffing is separate from the turkey.

My share

Bought cranberry sauces, just in case.
This is from Ocean Spray, which is very sweet and good.

I could not resist buying the doughnuts when I collected my turkey.
Look at the generous layer of sugar on it!
And this is one of the softest doughnuts I ever had!


Rating


My Ramblings...
I will definitely come back.
Usually, when I have turkey, I feel as if I am eating meat.
But the experience I get from Gastronomia is that I am having a meal.
That makes it so different.

One lesson that we learnt though - remember to serve the turkey from the middle and outwards.
Because the stuffing is not proportional.

Christmas Biscuits

Dear's christmas biscuits... They are so good... Will get a copy of the recipes to learn how to bake them.. Keke...


Peanut butter cookie



Cornflakes with lots sugar and M&Ms

Mashmallow

Heart cookie

This is good...

Christmas 2008

This year, we chose Fairmont for our Turkey..

Turkey with condiments...

Honey Baked Ham with condiments

Logcake box

Logcake

Honey Baked Ham (after carving)

Turkey (after carving)

Drumstick

Dear's work of art

And we ended our day with Marks and Spencer biscuits...


Rating:

Price

Quality

Quantity

Service

Overall


My Ramblings:

Was disappointed at the size of the Turkey. Last year was so much bigger.

One thing which I liked about the feast is the logcake - It was the only logcake which I liked. Not too creamy yet delicous, paired with roasted almonds. Yummy.

Christmas Meal - Goodwood Coffee Lounge

Went with dear to Goodwood for Set Dinner yesterday in the end.

Our first dish - Bread n butter

Appetizer - Salmon roll with asparagus

Dish - Pork Ribs

Guess what's next...

Hainanese turkey with rice ball... Aint it cool...

Condiments...

With a cup of coffee...

And free flow of desserts like bread pudding...

Strawberry shortcake and Chocolate and Green Tea marble cake

Chocolate tart and Mango tart

Chestnut eclair and cakes


Mango sago with pomelo

Logcakes and hazelnut cake

Passion fruit ice cream with fruits

Biscuit. I suspect this is with marzipan filling...

Chocolate Cake


Rating:

Price

Quality

Quantity

Service

Overall


My Ramblings:

I love the combination. Enjoy a simple dinner and feast during desserts. Totally my style.. Keke...

I love their desserts. The quality is very good although this is a buffet. Normally, the quality of the desserts served are quite ok-ish. But, the one we had was fantastic. I love the tarts, especially the chocolate ones. Can't help but taking more...

Overall, the experience was good, especially when I ended it with a cup of coffee that enhances the whole dessert feasting..