Ducks and Geese
This is a venerable dish, one of the great classics of French cuisine. Napoleon could have eaten this, as could Victor Hugo, Camus or Charles de Gaulle. Escoffier certainly ate salmis, and my recipe is based on his.
Charcuterie
Hungarians like their paprika. They put it in everything, even salami. I happen to love this salami: Tangy, zippy with paprika and garlic but not overly spicy. Normally this is a pork salami, but I've done it with duck here. Most meats will work.
Ducks and Geese
Wood ducks are both beautiful and tasty; and if you know much about them, you know they love acorns above all else. So I felt I needed to make a wood duck recipe that highlighted that. Wood duck, with acorn dumplings and a winter salsa.
Recipe
Germany is the land of 1,000 sausages, and this is a good one. Actually, my bockwurst recipe is definitely more German-American than traditional. Here in the US, bockwurst isn't smoked very often, and it is a softish sausage that has cream, eggs, parsley and chives. This recipe works with any meat, but I did it with snow geese.
Wild Game
Last month I hunted tundra swans in Utah, and we ate our bird for Christmas dinner. When I tell people I have hunted and eaten swan I get reactions sunning the gamut from excited interest to full-on horror. Few animals carry the cultural baggage that swans do, and even I am not immune to these mixed feelings.
Ducks and Geese
How to roast a duck so that you get crispy skin and meat that isn't horribly overcooked. There are nuances to this, so read on. Oh, and sorry: This only works with wild ducks.
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Geese are not ducks, nor is goose hunting like duck hunting. Geese are far tougher to fool, far tougher to kill. But when it all works, there is nothing else that thrills me more. I had such a hunt last week.
Appetizers and Snacks
Of all the dishes I have made over the years, this one might just be my signature: Duck heart tartare, puttanesca style. I know, it sounds awful, even slightly dangerous. I can assure you it isn't.
Recipe
When life gives you a roast duck or goose, or, even better, a smoked duck or goose, you could do a whole lot worse than make this clean, simple German soup. Riebele dumplings are a little like spaetzle, but are firmer and smaller.
Ducks and Geese
Fall has finally hit, and I find myself in the Upper Midwest: wild rice country. It seems amazing that after all these years, I don't have a recipe pairing wild rice and duck, which is a classic. Well, better late than never.
Charcuterie
Lots of people made duck or goose "prosciutto" with the breast. But the real magic is in this Northern Italian ham made with the goose's leg and thigh. Unlike the breast, this can hang for the better part of a year. Let it age that long and it tastes like eating silk.
Ducks and Geese
Thai red curry with duck is a standard dish in that country's cuisine -- in fact, it is thought that ducks were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, so this is about as core a duck recipe as you can get. And it's mad crazy awesome.
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