Yesterday we ate the duck we had bought from the very kind neighbour. It was delivered to our house ready to cook on Saturday and was alive that very morning. It can´t get more fresh than that.
We had gusets from Sweden arriving so what could be better than to invite them for dinner and serving this absolutely farm fresh duck?
I looked up a nice recipe, French classic Duck a Lórange or duck in orange. We got organic oranges and now had this organic duck so what could suit better.
I cooked it in the oven and made a sauce according to this recipe with peels of oranges and the liver and heart to make a stock first. It smelled lovely and promising.
The steak thermometer was broken we noticed after a while and we had to guess how long the duck should stay in the oven. The recipes I had read stated 90 minutes but this one was ready long before that and came out tough like rubber. What a shame! We also felt a bit stupid in front of our guests. Here we offer them dinner, bragging about this lovely duck and it ended up like sole of a shoe.
Next time we will make ourselves first so we learn how to cook it first.
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