Following the laziest roast crispy duck in history my duck fat jar runneth over … almost. So it should see us through the coming winter unless we take it into our heads to make confit and, considering the mess involved, I rather hope we don’t. Duck fat is by far the best medium for roasting potatoes or greasing Yorkshire [...]
Archive for September, 2008
duck and cover
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Winter, ingredients, slow food, tagged cooking fat, duck, duck fat, preserves, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
if it’s yellow let it mellow
Posted in Summer, wine, tagged limoncello on September 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Limoncello – what’s not to like? For me it conjures up memories of a certain bijou hotel bar just off the Spanish Steps in Rome, we nuzzling and snuggling into the velvet sofa to the sound of our multi-talented and heavily-accented Italian crooner twiddling his Moog synthesizer while giving us his vocal stylings of Captain of [...]
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