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If you happen to have just turkey wings left over after Thanksgiving, here's a weird way to use them- just bread them in Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal and fry them! This recipe is also good if don't have many people over for Thanksgiving and you don't care to finish off an 18 lb turkey alone. This recipe s the third iteration I had for this video. Let me tell you about the first two: Iteration #!: Get a raw, smoked turkey wing and stuff it with green beans and stuffing before baking. Why I didn't go with that idea: Turns out it's all but impossible to stuff anything inside a raw, smoked turkey wing. Iteration #2: Get raw, unsmoked turkey wings and stuff it with stuffing and green beans before baking. Why I didn't go with that idea: it's not weird enough- turkeys are meant to be stuffed, even the wings! Why I decided to bread the wings in dinosaur egg oatmeal and fry them: Who the hell coats turkey wings in oatmeal, much less Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal, which, let's face it, is one of two Quaker Oatmeal flavors(the other is Safari Adventure)clearly aimed at children because it's cute and sugary!? Besides, turkey wings are huge and are sometimes called Brontosaurus wings so naturally, the first thing that comes into my mind is Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal. I gotta say, I was a bit disappointed by the cooked outside of the wings- the eggs in the raw oatmeal that are supposed to "hatch" into dinosaurs after cooking, just dissolved in the oven. Although to be fair, dinosaur egg oatmeal is only meant to be cooked in the microwave for 90 seconds, not in an oven or air fryer for 2 hours! As for the spices I coated on the outside of the wings, it didn't really have an effect on the smoked wings. Smoked turkey wings taste like bacon, but that's because part of cooking bacon is smoking and curing it. Like bacon, these types of wings are also a tad salty. Plus it was kind of a pain to find out online how long to cook them. With this i was in uncharted territory, but I recommend cooking it for at least 90 minutes. With 75 minutes, it's still fully cooked on the inside(thus safe to eat) but it's much harder to cut and chew. As for the initially raw turkey wings? It has the consistency of chicken wings, only they're 10 times bigger. I tasted more chicken than turkey, although my dad said it tasted like every turkey he's had on Thanksgiving for as long as he remembers. Now for the elephant in the room- technically, you're baking anything if it goes in the oven, not frying it, but despite the availability of an air fryer, I didn't use one because it would overload my electrical circuit in the kitchen, which is kinda old. But hey, people oven fry things all the time so potato potato, I guess? You will need: For the cooking equipment: Several large plates A medium bowl A large bowl 2 lasagna pans Nonstick cooking spray Aluminum foil A meat thermometer Tongs For the wings: 1 smoked turkey wing, thawed 2 raw turkey wings Pumpkin pie spice Poultry seasoning 1 cup of buttermilk or 1 cup milk + 1 3/4 tsp. cream of tartar 3/4 cup apple BBQ sauce 2 eggs 4 packets Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal 1/2 cup cranberry juice Carrot or pumpkin soup Serve with stuffing 1. Season all 3 wings in both pumpkin pie spice and poultry seasoning. 2. Pour buttermilk and BBQ sauce into a medium bowl. Crack 2 eggs into said bowl. Whisk all the ingredients together. 3. Pour the oatmeal packets into a large bowl. 4. Dredge the raw turkey wings first in the buttermilk mixture and then the oatmeal before placing onto a plate. 5. Place the smoked turkey wing onto a plate and pour the remaining buttermilk mixture on top of it- the wing is simply too large to fit into a medium bowl. 6. Bread the smoked turkey wing in the remaining oatmeal before placing onto a plate. 7. Spray 2 lasagna pans with nonstick cooking spray. Place the smoked wing in one pan and the 2 raw wings in the other. 8. Pour 1/4 cup cranberry sauce into each pan. Cover both pans with aluminum foil. 9. For the smoked turkey wing: fry the wing in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for 75-90 minutes, or until internal temperature of the wing reaches at least 165 degrees Fahrenheit. For the raw wings: First fry the wings in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for an hour. 10. Take the initially raw turkey wings out of the oven. Flip them over and pour carrot or pumpkin soup on top of them. Place the cover back on and return the pan to the oven for an additional hour, or until the internal temperature of the wings reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. 11. Serve with stuffing or whatever fixings you want!
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The White House has an annual tradition every Easter called the Easter Egg Roll, where kids rolls eggs down a hill for fun. Well, I've decided to make literal egg rolls with many of the components of Easter, including rabbits and chocolate! Making egg rolls is surprisingly easy. These days, you can buy premade wonton wrappers and all you gotta do is put your fillings in the center of the wrappers and wrap them up. I couldn't find ground rabbit online(well, that's not true, I was just too lazy to search for it), so I settled for rabbit hot dogs instead, which taste like any ordinary hot dog(you know, the type made from pork and/or beef) and are better suited for egg rolls than ground rabbit, since there's no need to brown them before hand. But why the use of seaweed salad, which isn't normally served on Easter? You see, when I was a kid, my mom would always give my sister and I gift baskets that had candy and green garland in it that looked like seaweed, hence the use of it here. Normally people don't eat eggs on Easter, they just hard-boil them and paint them. I prefer eating hard-boiled eggs more than painting them and rendering them inedible. The egg rolls tasted sweet from the candy and savory from the hard-boiled egg and rabbit hot dogs. Since I didn't have a pastry brush on hand, I had to the pour olive oil onto the egg rolls, but all that oil made the egg rolls turn out looking like they just came out of a deep fryer! The outside was definitely greasy and crispy, just like an egg roll should. I may have served them with coconut aminos, but the egg rolls actually taste better without them. My dad didn't try this recipe, as he's opposed to eating rabbits. HELPFUL LINKS: Seaweed Salad: www.amazon.com/Japanese-Delight-Seaweed-Vinegar-Garlic/dp/B00HVP2DAW/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1521383927&sr=8-1& Rabbit Hot Dogs: www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/product-p/rabbithotdogs32.htm You will need: Makes 12 egg rolls For the cooking equipment: A wooden cutting board 2 lasagna pans Nonstick cooking spray A small bowl A pastry brush For the egg rolls: 12 Wonton wrappers 2 boxes(2 oz.) of seaweed salad(see HELPFUL LINKS; you can also find them at a sushi restaurant) 3 Rabbit hot dogs(see HELPFUL LINKS) 3 cooled, hard-boiled eggs Jelly beans(NOT the Harry Potter type that's vomit-flavored) Mini chocolate eggs Olive oil Coconut aminos or soy sauce(optional) For each egg roll: 1. Put a wonton wrapper onto a wooden cutting board. 2. Place a little bit of the seaweed salad in the center of the wrapper and top the seaweed with a small piece of a rabbit hot dog, a part of a hard-boiled egg, 5 jelly beans, and 3 mini chocolate eggs. 3. Wrap the wonton wrapper according to the package directions. 4. Spray 2 lasagna pans with nonstick cooking spray. Place the egg roll into a lasagna pan. 5. Repeat for the remaining 11 egg rolls and place 6 rolls in each lasagna pan. 6. Pour some olive oil into a small bowl and brush the tops of the egg rolls with the oil. If you don't have a brush, just drizzle the oil onto the rolls from the small bowl. 7. Bake the egg rolls in a 400 degree Fahrenheit oven for 10-12 minutes. 8. Serve with coconut aminos or soy sauce(optional). |
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