BS: My duck is cooked!

Subject: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 10:31 PM

I got the hankering the other day to eat some roast duck. I hadn't had any in at least 10 years (roast duck, I mean...not sex). So I figured I'd cook it myself (the duck, mean...you gotta 'splain EVERYthing here in very specific terms or some people get the wrong idea). Went out to the local grocery, bought a frozen "jeune dindon" (young French duck?), and brought it home. It took 2 whole days to thaw that duck out. Then I looked up a roast duck recipe on the Net, followed it closely, and....voila!!! I ate roast duck tonight! I had stuffed it beforehand with chopped up sweet potatoes and green onions.

Wowee!!! Really good. I am now basking in the satisfaction of a job well done and wondering what culinary heights to scale next.

Roast goose?

Ostrich?

Pheasant under glass?

I'll have to give it some careful thought.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 10:51 PM

Turkey! >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:08 PM

Sorry, that was rude and I apoligize. I understand you Uppity Canadians don't necessarily learn the French language as a matter of course. I live in New Brunswick.... the ONLY officially bilingual province in Canada. So, I know when to duck.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:11 PM

I took a roasted duck to a Christmas dinner once. From my family's reaction, you'd have thought I'd brought a bag of deep-fried monkey testicles. Some people just have no sense of adventure when it comes to holiday meals.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:15 PM

So, next time, bring a jeune dindon. Deeelicious!

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:35 PM

I went to school with John Dindon. Considering the people he hung around with and his own standards of hygience I doubt that he had good taste.

LH, there are many more culinary mountains to climb. Emu, Canada goose (PLEASE!!!), ortilans, Cat Braisé, bosintang, alligator, snake, and various insects to name but a few.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 Mar 12 - 11:37 PM

I like duck much more than turkey and would have been delighted if you brought it for Christmas dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 12:43 AM

I figure since you stuffed the duck you could probably stuff a chicken okay but before you move up to Kendall's llama, you'll need to probably get some Viagra.......and one of them enlarger pumps............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 02:23 AM

I have one recipe that works pretty well for almost anyting:

1. Killit
2. Burnit
3. Eatit

Seems to work about every time.

I haven't noticed that using a fancy name for something changes how it tastes, but once when having a meal with a friend I was faced with a rather unidentifiable item and asked what it was called.

I was informed "in our family it's called SHADUPANEATIT."

The name was appropriate, but I've never tried to replicate the item.

John

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 03:29 AM

I tried a roasted mallard one Cjristmas, totally underwhelmed.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 03:57 AM

We had duck breasts last Christmas.

I'm suing the orthopaedic surgeon...

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:52 AM

Have ye got frogs legs ?

mais oui hinnie,

then hop off and get us some peas pudding.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 09:29 AM

Poor little frogs. Reminds me of a Callahan cartoon....

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 10:15 AM

Poor frogs indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 01:08 PM

My mistake! It was not a jeune dindon. It was a jeune canard. I've seen so many dindons in the last few decades that I got confused, but I have checked the wrapper it came in, and it's definitely a canard.

Spaw - Thanks for that bit of sage advice. What would I do without you, man? How much would you say it would take to stuff a large pig?

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 01:14 PM

A very large stuffer (penie porky poker)if you ask me..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 01:16 PM

That's what I figured. Hmmm. It'll take some careful preparation. Maybe I should enroll in a course or something. I'll have to see what they offer at Georgian College...

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Bert
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 02:56 PM

Yes LH, Dindon is Turkey as in The owl and the pussycat.

You need to get the delightful book illustrated by Monique-Alika Watteau

Le Hibou et la Poussiquette

Translated by Francis Steegmuller

Hibou et Minou allèrent à la mer
Dans une barque peinte en jaune-canari;
Ils prirent du miel roux et beaucoup de sous
Enroulés dans une lettre de crédit.
Le Hibou contemplait les astres du ciel,
Et chantait, en grattant sa guitare,
"O Minou chérie, ô Minou ma belle,
O Poussiquette, comme tu es rare,
Es rare,
Es rare!
O Poussiquette, comme tues rare!"

II

Au chanteur dit la chatte, "Noble sieur à deux pattes,
Votre voix est d'une telle élégance!
Voulez-vous, cher Hibou, devenir mon époux?
Mais que faire pour trouver une alliance?"
Ils voguèrent, fous d'amour, une année et un jour;
Puis, au pays où le bong fleurit beau,
Un cochon de lait surgit d'une forêt,
Une bague accrochée au museau,
Museau,
Museau,
Une bague accrochée au museau.

III

"Cochon, veux-tu bien nous vendre pour un rien
Ta bague?" Le cochon consentit.
Donc ils prirent le machin, et le lendemain matin
Le dindon sur mont les unit.
Ils firent un repas de maigre et de gras,
Se servant d'une cuillère peu commune;
Et là sur la plage, le nouveau ménage
Dansa au clair de la lune,
La lune,
La lune,
Dansa au clair de la lune.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 03:09 PM

I was invited to go duck hunting years ago. Good story, but... upon arriving home, one of my roomies was thrilled and offered to cook the ducks. When dinner was served, I vowed never to kill another duck.

My old man's recipe... place ducks on 2 2X4s to drain grease into roasting pan. Cover with preferred spices. Brown at 400 for 20 minutes. Cover and cook for 1:40h at 375. Throw ducks out the door and eat the 2X4s.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 03:25 PM

I do like orange sauce with roast duck. It's easy, just grate into a pan the zest and add the juice of a couple of oranges. Add quite a bit of sugar ( at least two tablespoons) and simmer gently until it thickens. It cuts the grease a bit of the fatty duck meat. My only disappointment with duck is the relatively small amount of meat on them, compared to a chicken. Also, it needs lengthy cooking or it's tough! Sage-and-onion is great with it too. Yum, this is making me peckish!

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 04:30 PM

Chickens have been raised for meat for centuries. Ducks generally ar stock.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:20 PM

I grew up eating ducks my uncles would shoot. They were nice about cleaning them before dropping them by. It wasn't bad eating, but you had to watch for the bird shot. That wasn't dangerous or anything, except for time my mother fixed cabbage with the duck and my brother swallowed some of the shot and blew a hole in his mattress after he went to bed that night.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:29 PM

"Ka-CHINK!" (high hat)

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 06:32 PM

That was the night my brother Ted and I learned the meaning of "duck and cover."

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 07:04 PM

Thinkin' about this, I think I've had Chinese pressed duck just once in life, long ago. If I remember right, it wasn't bad. But I don't think I've seen it on the menu at any Chinese restaurant around here.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: michaelr
Date: 28 Mar 12 - 07:13 PM

Muscovy ducks are bred to have large breasts that taste superb.

Whenever I cook duck, I save the fat. It's really tasty for frying potatoes in.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 06:58 AM

Try cooking duck Normandy style with apple cider and Calvados.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 09:09 AM

Put the cider in the duck and drink the calvados?

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 03:09 PM

That'll work Rap!

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 03:45 PM

I am dashed, everyone knows I am a confirmed veg guy ... poor little critters ... I am so dissapointed :-)

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 03:46 PM

I would write more but I gotta check my pork roast in the oven ... s

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 04:32 PM

Just to confuse matters, ever tried Bombay Duck?

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 06:03 PM

Like, when the bomb bay opens, ya better duck?

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: olddude
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 06:31 PM

exactly froggie

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 06:58 PM

I came up with an excellent recipe for venison roast based on the hinese roast duck.......We call it "Peking Buck."

3-4 pound venison roast
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon fresh ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoon honey
2 orange, sliced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Tastes great with some plum sauce!

Also do deer like lamb which we call "Bambi Lambi." The ground deer makes great "Sloppy Doe."



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 09:16 PM

Only you would have a recipe for hinese roast.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Mar 12 - 09:18 PM

For venison try a faux Cumberland sauce:

Port wine
Creamed horseradish
A dab of butter

and something else which I forget at the moment.

GENTLY heat the port over low heat and add the other stuff to taste.

When I remember the other thing I'll let y'all know.

Subject: RE: BS: My duck is cooked!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Mar 12 - 07:24 PM

The duck has now been completely consumed. Time for the next grand adventure to begin!