{"id":8152,"date":"2013-12-27T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2013-12-28T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T21:11:31","slug":"christmas-dinner-on-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/christmas-dinner-on-boxing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas dinner on Boxing day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made 2 ducks that I got from Matt Smith, using this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Duck-a-lOrange-233535\"><em>Gourmet<\/em> recipe<\/a> from 1943. I followed the recipe pretty exactly, except instead of celery in the bottom of the roasting pan, I used celeriac, and I didn&#8217;t add the orange zest to the sauce. Which was delicious even without it. Oh, yea, and I left out the marjoram (I think it tastes like soap) and just used more thyme and parsley. The ducks seemed to have a lot of pin feathers, so I flamed them with some orange liquor when they came out of the oven. That was pretty exciting. Ducks are still something of a mystery to me, at least carving &#8211; the meat doesn&#8217;t want to come off the bones. I managed to hack off both legs and thighs and the 4 breasts, and that&#8217;s what we ate. The breast meat was really, really good. After dinner, I tried to get as much meat off the carcasses as I could and ended up with a small ziploc bag with a few wisps of meat. I wish I liked duck stock &#8211; I had so much good material for it.<\/p>\n<p>I just read a recipe that said to cook the duck for three hours. Maybe that&#8217;s the trick.<\/p>\n<p>We also had braised red cabbage, and roasted root vegetables. I made a trifle, but I think because the duck was so rich,\u00a0 we didn&#8217;t eat it. I packed up a cookie box for John &amp; Megan to take to Jake&#8217;s and had to taste test a few to make sure they were still good, this long after Xmas.\u00a0 They were. And that was all the dessert that I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>We can have trifle tonight, after bangers and mash with duck gravy for the mash.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; still no room for trifle &#8211; another day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-213127.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20131227-213127.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131227-213127.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made 2 ducks that I got from Matt Smith, using this Gourmet recipe from 1943. I followed the recipe pretty exactly, except instead of celery in the bottom of the roasting pan, I used celeriac, and I didn&#8217;t add the orange zest to the sauce. Which was delicious even without it. Oh, yea, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,146],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leftovers","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}