A Twinkie-Stuffed Turkey?! Ewwww…
The holidays are fast approaching, which means it’s time to plan menus. Here at Chez Lowe, that means thinking outside the box. We stopped eating traditional Thanksgiving/Xmas dinners several years ago, in favor of more exotic, experimental feasts.*
But this is waaaaay too experimental for me…
There is an infinite number of recipes and iterations for turkey and stuffing. We can appreciate a new twist on a classic, but the recipe for “Twinkling Turkey” from the Twinkies Cookbook has us a bit wary.
In the recipe below, the cake part of the Twinkie is used as a stuffing ingredient while the cream filling becomes a sauce for turkey. For the stuffing, Twinkies and a Hostess corn muffin mix are combined with diced apple and stuffed into the bird. For the sauce, the cream filling is combined with honey and brushed on the turkey during the last fifteen minutes of roasting. Sure, it’s a creative use of a Twinkie, but creativity doesn’t always translate into tastiness.
Yeah, I’m “a bit wary” of that recipe too! If you really want to see it, click the top link to visit the Huffington Post… or worse, check out the Twinkies Cookbook on Amazon.com (yes, it’s a real-life book from Hostess). But seriously: how desperate for novelty do you have to be to use Hostess Twinkies on/in your Thanksgiving turkey? Ewwww…
*This year, we’re doing Indian cuisine – gonna try to recreate some of the dishes we used to order from Ajanta, one of our favorite restaurants back in OH.
November 11, 2011
Who in the world thinks up these things? I realize they try to find different ways to sell their product, but a Twinkies Cookbook?
Oh well. Hopefully your attempt at recreating your Indian cuisine works out.
November 11, 2011
We’ll see, of course, but generally these things work out. I’m a pretty good cook, lol.
November 12, 2011
I have faith in your ability. I’m sure it will be great.