Cassoulet is a fairly epic dish that many home cooks shy away from because it requires a lot of time, some recipes call for 3 days of preperation/cooking. It’s a peasant dish and they were too busy working to be cooking for three days straight. I’ll guarantee they worked a lot harder for longer hours [...]
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Smoked Duck Confit
Posted in Cooking on Oct 17th, 2010
Inspired by one of my favourite blogs Hunter Angler Gardener Cook asking for duck recipes to win a seating at his upcoming duck Duel, I was thinking about good duck dishes, of course everyone knows that duck confit is the ultimate in duck recipes ( well it’s more of a mother recipe as it spawns [...]
Three Course French Meal
Posted in Cooking on Jun 12th, 2010
I was having some friends over for dinner and wanted to be very french, and just happened to have a lot of stuff stashed in my freezer that was perfect for it … Freshly cured pork belly, a bone from a home cured ham, duck legs, confit pork belly, and slow cooked beef ribs. I [...]
Confit of Duck
Posted in Cooking on Dec 2nd, 2008
With the left over duck pieces from my previous Duck with Pomegranate Juice Reduction dish I decided to make a confit of duck. I season the duck pieces with salt, thyme, coriander and garlic and left in the fridge for 24 hours to cure. This was then cooked at 100 C for 10 hours overnight [...]
