I cheat and buy roast duck, (as get this) I hate the smell of roast duck don't ask me why, although I think it has something to do with chinatown Duck confit I have a very good supplier but it also is very easy to make yourself, its just time consuming and usually when I get a hankering I want it then and there. Roasting duck is very easy, and if you don't want to do a whole duck, you can just get breast with the skin on and pan fry it (just make sure you do skin side first and do score and season the skin first). It is important IMO to have a crispy skin if doing the risotto I mentioned as there is just something about the taste. When I used to live closer to gourmet produce I used to make a mean 5 spice asian duck breast that we used to have with pommes anna (french style potato gratin) and it was good. But alas I don't have the same wonderful stores closeby and my wonderful son is no way near as easy going as Paris was so unless its the weekend a day in the kitchen is sooooo out of the question LOL!
Duck confit I have a very good supplier but it also is very easy to make yourself, its just time consuming and usually when I get a hankering I want it then and there. Roasting duck is very easy, and if you don't want to do a whole duck, you can just get breast with the skin on and pan fry it (just make sure you do skin side first and do score and season the skin first). It is important IMO to have a crispy skin if doing the risotto I mentioned as there is just something about the taste. When I used to live closer to gourmet produce I used to make a mean 5 spice asian duck breast that we used to have with pommes anna (french style potato gratin) and it was good. But alas I don't have the same wonderful stores closeby and my wonderful son is no way near as easy going as Paris was so unless its the weekend a day in the kitchen is sooooo out of the question LOL!
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