Duck

[ashnistrike]

My wife got me a 4 pound duck at Eastern Market, because she knows me and loves me.

Day 1: Roast duck with five-spice powder. Stock from the carcass.
Day 2: Yorkshire pudding baked in duck fat. Salad with duck cracklings.
Day 3: Fingerling potatoes roasted in duck fat.
Day 4: Duck liver mousse (padded with chicken liver). Deviled heart and kidney, plus one liver piece I accidentally left out of the mousse.

Still to come: risotto with duck stock and the remaining cracklings.

I'm not sure why I can't get a week's worth of meals out of a 4 pound chicken, which has twice as much meat on it.  Possibly just not as inspiring.

Comments

[redbird]

Oh, yum. I may have to do something like that Yorkshire pudding sometime.

We have a nice supply of duck fat from previous roast ducks (it keeps quite well in a tupperware container in the fridge), and one thing cattitude likes to do with it is roast potatoes.

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[stormlight811.livejournal.com]

Caught at "roast duck with five-spice!" My imagination is very happy with this idea, and will likely play with it for days. A chicken may have twice as much meat as a duck, but not nearly as many parts which are actually Tasty, and less caloric and nutritional value for the whole, as well. (Same reason my kitties go through cheap crunchy food at three times the rate they go through high quality food...which, incidentally, I just found out this month. Failed Attempt at Temporary Economizing #14...and I should have known better than to try that, anyway.)

May you both enjoy every bit of The Duck most muchly!