Showing posts with label duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duck. Show all posts
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Applewood (Saturday, May 29, 2010)
We ate out at a restaurant called Applewood in Brooklyn. Check out my posting on the Out to Eat Blog.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Duck Legs (Feb 15, 2010)
Dinner tonight was about using the legs from the duck I got for last night's dinner (which only called for the duck's breast).
Duck breast cooks very quickly--I cooked them in 13 minutes last night (and perhaps 11 minutes would have been better). I don't cook duck a whole lot (I think Christmas 2008 was the last time), so imagine my surprise tonight when I took a closer look at the recipe I was going to follow and saw that it required 3 hours of cooking time.
So I tossed the recipe and winged "Duck Legs in Hurry." What I did was brown the legs a bit on the stove top; toss in chopped apples and onions; added a bit of cider vinegar, stock, and flambéed some cognac on top. I covered it and put in the oven to braise for an hour, then removed the cover and let it roast for 30 minutes to brown up.
The duck tasted great and the apples & onions were pretty good too (albeit a bit rich from all the duck fat they soaked up). The broccoli I had intended to use as a side vegetable was no longer any good, so I sauteed up some zucchini. And for a starch we had a medley of wild, brown, & whole grain rice.
Oh, and we started with leftover beet soup from last night. I was a bit more successful in getting the 2-color effect this time around.
Duck Breast with Pomegranate Chile Sauce (Valentine's Day 2010)
The day started off pretty busy. We had plans to see our friend's G&C who just had a baby boy a couple weeks ago, on 01/22/09. I wanted to bake some banana/blueberry bread to bring over, so as soon as I got up this morning I got busy baking.
We got home around 3:30-4pm and Ethan went right to work in the kitchen while I did laundry (sounds super romantic already, right?). Well, I can't even begin to tell you how lucky I am to have a husband who not only enjoys cooking but he's pretty damn good at it too!
Ethan's Valentine Day dinner menu: Golden and Red Beet Soup, Roast Duck Breasts with Pomegranate-Chile Sauce, Swiss Chard sauteed with garlic and olive oil, and Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
Ethan made this Beet soup last Valentine's Day and I liked it so much I asked him to make it again.
Golden and Red Beet Soup
Gourmet, September 1998
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Flor de Mayo (January 15, 2010)
Lomo Saltado
We ordered our favorite Lomo Saltado (stir fried beef with french fries over yellow rice), tried Country Duck ("a traditional looked duck dish over with an authentic brown sauce"), and fried sweet plantains. The Lomo Saltado was great (as always), the duck was so-so, and the plantains never arrived.
Country Duck
Half Chicken
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