I can't say I boned a duck like Julia and Julia but I did some other awful things to a duck. Like cut off it's head and pulled out it's innards. I went to the oriental market to get my frozen duck. I stored it for a while, putting off the day of cooking because it was all freeze wrapped in a ball with it's beak and eyes mashed up against the plastic staring at me. I saw it's nostrils on it's beak and thought about the breath that might have once entered them. It was quite sad. So the day came when courage reached it's potential. I carefully had a recipe laid out and all my supplies. First it said to steam it with a bunch of herbs inside of it but a precursor to that was to get rid of the head and feet. My dad, a superb cook happened to be by this day. I wanted to be hard core and do all the major cutting and trimming of the duck but it's claws snagged my apron and I lost all courage. So my dad may helped out in this area. :) Thanks Dad! Then I stemmed Donald Duck for a long time then I basted him with some honey mixed with soy sauce and baked him for a while. After he was all cooked and aromatic, Brit and I deboned the duck from the bones. It was fall apart meat. We had a bunch of duck pieces on a plate and 3 different sauces. Plum sauce, hoisin sauce and orange marmalade. I had also made chinese pancakes to wrap up the duck in. So you have like a duck quesadilla without cheese anyway. I was really good at making these thin pancakes. It was just flour and water rolled into a log. Then you make little balls about the same size and dip half into sesame seed oil and press with into another ball. Then you roll the two balls together into a pancake. Then you dry fry them and when they are nice and browned you pull them apart and you have 2 super thin pancakes! It was amazing! So we rolled up the duck with the sauces into the pancakes and ate! I truly like duck.
Daisy Duck
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