Foodie Friday-Give ‘Em Da Boid!
Posted by larue in Friday Foodie Blogging, Relaxed Politics
Courtesy National Geographic
Howdy Beach Hauz Bumz! 
It’s Foodie Friday and it’s just a few weeks from Gluttony Day, other wise known at Thanksgiving!
So for today I’m all about da boid and next week I’ll cover the OTHER basics that go along with all the stuffing and gorging, of US that is, not the bird!!
But first, for all those who are nonboidians, labor unintensive, or dining with others on Gluttony Day so they don’t have to cook, here’s a lil something to keep you from gnawing on my Foodie Friday today. Click on piccie for recipe linky!
Courtesy Visual Recipes
So, on to my boid recipe!
Why’s mine so special? Cuz it’s done outdoors, even in the snow!
Cuz it’s smoky, tender, tasty and an herbal delight to prep, cook and consume!
That’s why!!!!
So let’s get to da boid!
Larue’s Smoky Boid
- One boid and kidneys/gizzards
- One tin foil pan for doid
- Tinfoil to cover pan and boid
- Chicken stock
- White wine (dry/sweet, you choose)
- Carrots
- Celery
- Onions
- Garlic (lots of garlic, of course)
- Herbs (whole FRESH herbs, NO DRIED HERBS!)
- Some herbs for pan, some for inside turkey!
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Basil
- Bay Leaf
- Sage
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- EVOO
- BBQ Grill (NO GAS GRILLS MAY PARTICIPATE!)
- Fruit Tree Hardwood (apple, peach, cherry)
- Hickory Chips
- Combine some amount of garlic and herbs
- Process to paste with EVOO
- Rub refrigerated bird under skin and on skin with paste
- Let stand for two hours or overnight in frig
- Rough chop onions, celery, carrots
- Leave Garlic in whole cloves, skin on if fresh bunch
- Add veggies and garlic to tinfoil pan
- Add half and half chicken stock and wine to fill pan halfway
- Set boid on top of veggies in pan
- Tinfoil boid and pan ensuring tinfoil don’t stick to boid
- Start hard wood fire in bbq with top off
- When flames die, but wood is burning well, bank to sides
- Add soaked hickory chips
- Add grill grate and place tented boid in pan to middle of grill
- Put lid on bbq
Liquids in pan will start to boil fairly quickly under the boid, causing a steam/poaching effect.
Temps will get VERY high, early on, but that’s ok!!!
Pull BBQ lid every half hour and check for sounds of boiling, the turkey will also release liquids and fat, so that will increase the liquids in the pan. That’s good!
For a 15-25 boid, at about two hours, lift BBQ lid, open tinfoil tent and using a knife point inserted one inch deep in the thick part of a breast, look to see what the color of the juices that flow out are.
If clear, remove tinfoil tent, and close BBQ lid to begin to roast and darken skin and outer portion of boid.
If juices are colored at all, return tinfoil tent and resume cooking. Check every half hour.
For those who MUST use a thermometer, breast internal temp should be minimum 145F.
Once boid is up to temp and juices run clear, remove from grill and let stand 15 minutes.
Then, remove boid from pan and let stand with drip pan under it.
- Remove herbs from pan and strip any leafs or herb from stems and reserve herbs.
- Remove kidneys, gizzards, etc to sauce pot.
- Take an amount of the vegetables and garlic, and liquid, into a sauce pot.
- Add the stripped herbs, and bring to a boil and reduce by half.
- Taste and adjust for seasonings.
- Using immersion blender, puree all that’s in the sauce pot.
- Strain through medium wire mesh strainer into new sauce pot.
- Bring to simmer, and taste.
- Adjust seasonings, herbs, wine, and drop in small amount of unsalted butter and whisk in.
- If too thin in consistency either reduce slowly or add more vegetables and reblend and strain again.
- And adjust seasonings when desired thickness is achieved.
- If too thick, simple add more tinfoil pan juices.
- When done add fresh fine chop Italian Flat Leaf Parsley and taste.
That’s yer gravy!!!!
Slice turkey per regular conventions, and serve.
I’m telllin ya, you’ll NEVER have a dried out boid with this process!
And, you can’t BEAT the smoky flavor of a boid from a BBQ!!!
Ok, I know yer out there. Yeah, YOU, living in 12 foot of snow on the patio. Or you, the one who NEVER uses a bbq. Ya got two choices!
Either get with Larue’s Program, and do something new and daring!!!
Or. Just use yer forking oven set at 375F and dump some bottled flavored smoke crap into the liquid before you begin cooking it.
But don’t come calling ME if your oven boid don’t really taste like the outdoors. It WILL be juicy and heavily flavored, though. For that, you can thank me.
And for that matter I don’t want to hear ONE WOID about DEEP FRIED BOID! NOT ONE WOID! 
What any of you do in the privacy of yer own trailer parks is NONE of my business. 
Well, that’s about it for today.
Next Foodie Friday I’ll cover stuffing, roasted garlic mashed taters, and maybe a few other side dishes.
But for now, it’s time for you to get out in your kitchens and make something to eat!
Mangiamo!
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Dude, I’ll have you know that today I personally participated in building a display of 5 gallon jugs of cooking oil packaged in cardboard boxes. We will sell every last stinking jug before Turkey Day so that some daredevil can deep-fry the family boid for the big feast. While we were doing it, we took bets on how many house fires would result from the frying attempts
FWIW-deep fried turkey is really, really yummy
Larue, do you use any ol’ bird that you pick up at the store? Smoking a Butterball is about the best thing to do for it. I’ve started buying heritage turkeys to roast for Turkey Day. They taste so much better. Besides, I am a dark meat person.
ucky gluttony day. Poor turkeys.
But if you must, thank the bird for giving up life for your pleasure.
We always brine our turkeys overnight, a la Alton Brown. Even last year, for the relatives since it was my first veggie T-Day.
Jammie Day at school today…most comfortable I’ve ever been at work.
Larue sounds very yummy!
Lea, we can’t have pajama day at high school. ‘Fraid of what some of the teens might actually wear to bed ….
And yet ….. Chimpy and Darth Cheney still walk free. Sigh….
A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.
via TPM
We were talking today about making it a monthly thing, but realized that it could get risky (risque?) in the spring with the 6th grade girls. Everybody’s all about the flannel right now, so it was ok.
@ Texas Betsy:
Hey, they wanted 33+ years! Somewhere recently I read an article comparing the sentence received by Duke Cunningham vs. what was being asked for in the Jefferson case. Cunningham got essentially a slap on the wrist for absconding with tens of millions of dollars. Jefferson “could have” gotten that much money, but in actuality got much less, but was given a much longer jail term. In no way am I advocating for leniency, if you commit a crime, you gotta do the time. Nevertheless, it was an interesting juxtaposition.
Sentence disparity for the win, Alex!
madmommy wrote:
Here it is. Bribery is bribery, and there’s no excusing it in our public officials. But in the “punishment fits the crime” department, there’s something wrong with the proposed sentence of Dollar Bill Jefferson when you compare it that handed down to Randy “Duke” Cunningham. The Seminal
@ madmommy:
@ Pellora:
RE: The sentencing disparity: Even the courts agree that it is Almost OK if You Are a Repiglican?
Used to do turkey in a Weber BBQ long time ago – always juicy and crispy skin and wonderful flavor. We also did one on my dad’s egg cooker and it was really good too. Also have had the best chicken and prime rib in that egg cooker too.
Dad’s egg cooker was terra cotta ceramic, also over 40 years old now. Still works. Good smoker, that’s it forte’
@ gnome de plume:
There’s that, then there’s also the difference in melanin between the two men. It’s not like there isn’t already a precedent for sentencing disparity for other crimes *cough(drugs)cough*. I would never presume to know the motives of the prosecutors in each case, of course, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate…
gnome de plume wrote:
Fucking wrong!
Hey Larue!
on the veggie pizza 
Alcohol Plus Caffeine Equals FDA Action. These combo drinks have been manufactured by companies big and small for the last couple years, and are increasingly a drink of choice among college students. A quarter of college drinkers are reaching for these alcohol and caffeine drinks when they party, according to research done by Dr. Mary Claire O’Brien, at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if *some* of the RNC employees with their special health care insurance plan actually USED the plan
@ Pellora:
I had a veggie pizza for supper. The pups had the pizza bones.
Now lets consider the case of Duke Cunningham.
Here’s a man, writing out $2M bribe menus on paper napkins, who’s idea of the high life is filet mignon well done, and who lived on the Potomac on a yacht (paid for by defense contractor buddies) with a hottub in which he loved to hang (and there are lots of folds on that dude to literally “hang”) out nude while his guests partied. Said hottub being directly filled by (heated) Potomac water.
Would you bathe in (heated) storm sewer water? That’s what the Potomac is around DC.
Now, seriously, how can you punish a guy like that? If you’re not careful, he’s gonna f*ck*ng love it.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition. Big Surprise – Not
@ gordon:
@ gordon:
and 
Not sure which one more.
@ Pellora:
OK, according to that post and the accompanying comments, there is a difference between entering a plea (Cunningham) and going to trial (Jefferson). Generally a plea sentence will be shorter, otherwise why offer the plea at all? Cunningham could have also rolled over and named names, which also makes a difference. Another good point was comparing a suggested sentence (Jefferson) to an actual sentence (Cunningham). Now that we have the actual sentence for Jefferson, the numbers break down like this: 13 years=156 months. $478K in bribes=1 month’s sentence for every $3064.00. Compared to Cunningham’s sentence/cash ratio: 100 months for 2.4 million in bribes, or 1 month for every 24K in bribe money.
Hmmm…still not quite parity.
I’m back.
Cassie has two very serious posts in the works. Any suggestions on scheduling?
@ Pellora:
I think you have to fix the link #21. Links back to the NPR coverage of RNC and abortion coverage.
Assume #21 is about Going Rogue. I make a prediction that the coverage of the story will peak with the day the book goes on sale, and drop precipitously thereafter.
@ Pellora:
My favorite part was saying Katie Couric was suffering from “low self-esteem” so Caribou Barbie felt sorry for her and did the interview. Without any prep. Then to say that Couric pounced with the “gotcha” questions
Yeah, cause asking someone running for the second highest office in the land what newspapers and magazines they read is so “gotcha”!
At least now all her lies and BS are convieniently gathered into one neat, hardcovered package. And I bet if you just wait a week or so, you can get a copy for a buck in the remainder bin at B&N
g’evening Bumz! Home from the Minnesota District 57 DFL Fall Fundraiser. Yep bat-shit-crazy-bachmann’s district. Lots of Dem governor candidates, i may do a little summary for my post tomorrow night.
My favorite quote – former Senator Mark Dayton who’s in the Dem primary for governor said of Smilin’ Tim Pawlenty running our state into the ground and then deciding he’d be good preseidential material, “he’s like the Captain of the Titanic asking for a promotion. But at least the Captain went down with the ship …” That line got a lot of applause. And then, to twist the knife a little, he added that he’d gotten that line from a former Republican Governor, Arne Carlson. I despised Arne when he was in office, but ol’ Arne’s looking pretty good these days. Of course, the new breed of rethugs have no time for him … no love lost there
@ Texas Betsy:
Does she want to be around to comment? I am probably not going to be around much longer tonight, but I will read them whenever they are posted.
@ madmommy:
Just means the court gave out a sentence a bit more reasonable than the prosecutors. But you do have to look at what the prosecutors were asking for, and who the prosecutors are. Is the prosecutor a left over repugnant going after a democrat or a democratic prosecutor making sure he/she didn’t appear to be playing favorites? What did the prosecutors ask for on Cunningham?
I don’t know.
@ gnome de plume:
I was thinking in terms of Saturday.
on Cunningham – “He was one of the early graduates of the Navy’s TOPGUN school that taught dogfighting techniques to F-4 Phantom pilots and RIOs.” from Wiki.
Another McSame it seems. Maybe a better pilot though
but a sloppier politician, who didn’t marry the Bud Distributor Heiress
@ Texas Betsy:
I can be serious on a Saturday!
Wow! Check out these gorgeous photographs of the insides of waves!
here’s a link for ex-Freaks and historical baseball fans. Not namin’ names, but I know who you are.
gordon wrote:
Fixed.
Thanks 
gnome de plume wrote:
Then go re-read a book you’ve long since forgotten.
Serious during late afternoon to evening, since running around or chores or yard work during the day will limit exposure. Serious at night seems to cause some indigestion, or so I’ve been told
@ gordon:
That’s like, amazing, man. Whoa…
A hell of a lot of pitchers have gone an entire career without a no-no. To pitch one while on LSD…
gordon wrote:
gnome, thanks for the linkie! those waves are gorgeous.
OK, I made it to 10:00. I think I will go to bed now. Maybe I have an old Jane Austen on the shelf I can read . . .
New post! Just for Gnome. Ok, and everyone else.
@ gnome de plume:
The wave pics are very kewl. All I can think of is the scene from Finding Nemo.
@ gnome de plume:
I am going to check out the wave guy’s book! Thanks. Love the ocean and everything in about it!
g’night. Sleep tight, sweet dreams of crashing waves!
I’m glad you guys liked those photos. They are breathtaking. I was upstairs waiting around, but nobody came.
SO I guess I’ll say good night again here. 
Come on people! No one likes the Nemo clip?? Srsly dude! Some of the best parenting advice evah! “Kill the motor dude, let us see what Squirt does flying solo.”
@ madmommy:
Sure Deep Fried Boid is good.
I’m ‘agin it, for purity issues.
Good luck with sellin fat.
@ gnome de plume:
A boid is a boid, they all got issues, and bennies.
Cook the danged boid!
My way.
@ pellora:
Kreepers, we got more salient beings ‘agin my boid’s.
Pel, love ya. Buy some soy product.
(I KNEW I’d run into this stuff . . . sigh)
Texas Betsy wrote:
Good dawg, TB, I thought I’d get flak from ya, hence the vegan pizza pic and a GREAT recipe in case ya didn’t clicky on it.
Thanks for your thanks, ma’am.
@ Pellora:
Pel I KNEW I’d have to feed YOU people, before my post.
And yep, that’s a great recipe, ain’t it.
gnome de plume wrote:
A boid is a boid, cook the damned thang and eat the parts ya want.
Fussy people don’t sit at my table.
Killin me, just killin me.
gordon wrote:
Fuck Da Duke, Eat Ma Boid!!!!!
@ newdealfarmgrrrlll:
I hope YOUR new place has 12ft of snow and you STILL try my recipe, Minneswota Gal!
@ madmommy:
I don’t even have to ask.
Doc Ellis.
He was a hoss.
Jim Bouton’s, ‘Ball Four’ was good, too.
FOOD!
You people kill me, FOOD!!!
@ larue:
no.
if there’s 12 feet of snow, i’ll put da boid in da oven. 
what is it about guys and their cavemen instincts?
And as always, I’m slow to the game, but hearty to the outcome!
Nite ya bumz.