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Got the Easter cook going. Apple Brined Turkey and Trout's recipe for Wine Marinated Duck, a Fattie to be crumbled up for the spinach/cheese/fattie Stuffed Mushrooms and a pack of puppy peters for pecking.

Pictures later.
 
Here's the pictures....
Trout's Wine Marinated Duck - Brothers this recipe is OUTSTANDING. I highly recommend it.
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2 cups of red wine
2 cloves of garlic
1 onion sliced
2 bay leaves, crumbled
1/4 cup olived oil
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp crushed marjoram leaves
half an apple
rap of celery
half an onion

Place the bird(s) in a non metal container. Add wine with enought cold water to cover, add onion, garlic and bay leaves. Cover and refigerate 18 to 24 hours. Remove bird(s) pat dry. Rub with Olive oil and sprinkle with salt pepper and marjoam. Stuff cavity with the apple celery and the half onion. Pour the marinade into the water pan or not. Smoke for 3 hours.


Apple Brined Turkey - recipe taken from the Virtual Weber Bullet. Good, but not great.
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Apple Brine For Turkey
2 quarts apple juice
1 pound brown sugar (light or dark)
1 cup Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt
3 quarts cold water
3 oranges, quartered
4 ounces fresh ginger, unpeeled and thinly sliced
15 whole cloves
6 bay leaves
6 large garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
Substitute 3/4 cup Morton Kosher Salt or 1/2 cup table salt for Diamond Crystal.

Combine apple juice, brown sugar, and salt in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring to dissolve. Boil for one minute, remove from heat, let mixture come to room temperature, then refrigerate to 40°F.

In a large non-reactive container, combine the apple juice mixture with the remaining ingredients. When adding the oranges, squeeze each piece to release the juice into the container, then drop in the peel.

And finally, the fattie/spinach/feta/scallion/toasted pine nut/egg/red wine/golden raisin stuffed mushroom caps. Excellent. The neighbors asked for the recipe. Sorry, but the picture of the finished product didn't come out. But here's the prep pics.
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And right before they went into the oven.
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Good eating this Easter.
 
Rob--outstanding looking eats!

How did you cook the duck?
I love the skin color--how did you do that?

Great job!

TIM
 
Cooked everything over maple and hickory. I cooked them in the WSM with the duck on top and the turkey underneath.

I take no credit for the duck, I thank Troutman. It was his marinade that made that bird. The only thing I left out was the marjoram on the outer skin. Apart from that, I followed his instructions to the letter.
 
wow, I love mushrooms and those look awesome. I threw a bunch of mushrooms in a foil pan during my last smoke. They absorb ALOT of smoke flavor. makes for good snacking while everything else cooks.
 
Rob--more questions from FL.

Karen went "WOW" when I showed her the 'shroom pics.

Cook temp and time please???? :lol:

(MeThinks they are going on the menu.)

TIM
 
Tim,
One caveat, I don't measure things, so take the amounts with a grain of salt. I really liked these and I'll be doing them again.

Fattie stuffed Mushrooms
1 lb smoked Jimmy Dean Sage Fattie - crumbled or diced
2 eggs
1/4 cup bread crumbs - probably less - just enough to hold things together
1 box chopped spinach, drained of any extra water
Shot or so of red wine. I used Merlot. Keep the mixture moist
4 scallions finely chopped
1 small bottle of pine nuts - toast in a pan before using
A few handfulls of golden rasins. I used them whole, but next time I'll chop them.
4 oz of crumbled feta
Salt and Pepper to taste. Be careful of the salt -the feta is salty on it's own.

Mix all together and place in uncooked mushroom caps.

Bake in 450 degree oven for 15-18 minutes, until mushrooms are tender but not mushy. I'm sure you could smoke these, but I only wanted the smoke flavor from the fattie.

I used a 40oz box of mushrooms and had a lot of stuffing left over. You could probably cut everything in half and still have enough stuffing for the 40 oz package of mushrooms.

Enjoy.
 
thanks Rob, that is going into my "do real soon" file too, along with Trout's duck. Awsome stuff.
 
That looks really great.. I'm thinking of doing something similar... I have a boatload of fatties/eggs from yesterday, and may do a chorizo fattie stuffing for some bellas!
 
Rob, even if the turkey was just "ok" it looks friggin' beautiful, very nice job.

Those 'shrooms look waaayyy to good for me not to take a shot at them as well.
 
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