Hilariously it turned out to be a non super-spreader event as more than 30 people are required for such a thing.
How was your celebratory dinner last night? Did you go with the roast lame duck?
Goodbye Donald, fuck you.
Oh yeah the celebration dinner,
The ducks. Before the Jan 6 insurrection and riot, I was planning on dead duck for dinner on the 6th and cooked goose on the 20th. But there was no appetite for celebration on the 6th, so it was burgers and beer (for me), milkshakes and smoothies for the boys. They have their own recipes and so they had at it while I dealt with the trauma as best I could. The duck was cooked the 7th and it was so good I decided to repeat on the 20th.
Vietnamese duck noodle soup. Here's a link to the recipe I based it on:
Vietnamese Duck Noodle Soup (Mi Vit Tiem) features fall-off-the-bone duck legs and a flavorful dark broth. Learn the easy method to cook this complexed dish at home in this post.
delightfulplate.com
Teenage boys are a bottomless pit, they each had a half of a duck to themselves. The leg-thigh portion was prepared as instructed (less the red dates and goji berries, which I don't have). The breasts were boned out, marinated as per the recipe and seared on a skillet to 125 F, then sliced into roughly 1/2" medallions. Everything was laid out in large bowls as shown in the picture. Broth, noodles, vegetable and duck potions in a single bowl. With wine and ice cream for dessert.
It's a very simple recipe, satisfying and memorable as is, but the sky is the limit for how much better one can make it. I also used home made chicken broth instead of water, which gave the broth added depth. The only change I'd make is use less star anise than called for.
The carcasses were roasted to render the fat and then frozen for making broth at a later date. I saved about 8 oz of rendered fat. The duck fat is used for frying potatoes. It's hard to say which I like better, the duck meat or the potatoes fried with duck fat. The only part I threw out was the wrapper.
The boys were happy with the amount. They will eat anything and only complain when there isn't enough so their opinion hardly matters.
But really what I savored most yesterday was the incessant ravings of a conman were no longer in the air.
Did I say fuck you Trump? I think I'll say it again
Fuck you Trump.