Category: duck
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Boys Night… Roast Pork in the Camp Oven
I know we’ve given you a bit of an amusingly-witty-great-food-cooking-blog overload today but… you’re just gonna have to deal with it. Write your local member of Parliament or something. Cookingfoodwithyourkidsisthebestshitever This evening the boys spent a fair while trying to decide if he said, “honey, don’t play with your food” or “Ted, don’t play with…
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Paul’s Caul… Salads for people who don’t like salads
Salad for people that don’t like salad I’m with you people, salad just doesn’t sound appealing its like de-caf coffee or clothes shopping with your girl, as in it just sounds shit from the get go, it may turn out to be alright but you’ll never know because you made up a lie about helping…
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duck, mash and spinach
The international day of the seafarer WTF? Yeah I thought that to, but June 25th is actually the international day of the seafarer. So we are encouraged by various boaty shippy type clubs to appreciate semen today. You see what happened just there? Jen changed seaman to semen. It was too obvious for me to…
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some mushroom things for amanda
Mushroom season appears to well and truly upon us. From the hippies down the road to friends across the country I am getting asked about recipes for mushrooms. To the hippies down the road I say just eat them and what you can’t eat now store in honey for a later date, and here’s a…
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the farmers market – simple duck curry
Being the man of my word that I am, here is the first of the farmers market cook ups (cook ups? Not the cleverest way of putting things, but its early in the a.m and I may or may not be a little hazy headed from the night before.) Thai duck curry of any description…
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Everyone should get out there and try a duck farmer’s sausage today
This is a recipe that kinda relies on you being able to get hold of some good quality duck sausages. The sausages that AJ makes for me have a bit of bacon and a few herbs (and a few ‘other things’ I don’t know about) in them. I never thought a duck farmers sausage would…
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Sauteed duck livers with marsala, pancetta and crostini
Sautéed duck liver with marsala, pancetta and crostini was the origional recipe. But last night it changed to duck breast and smashed livers on toast with bacon, midnight herbs and the last of Jen’s red wine. My cousin AJ did a bit of dish piggin’ for me to earn a little extra cash on his…
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Lilianas -Byron hinterland
Restaurant reviews? Unheard of… Maybe I’ll do some more, maybe I won’t, but one thing is for sure, Jen and I just had a cracking lunch at a restaurant to have only recently opened it’s doors in the Byron hinterland… Lilianas. So I’ll say that it was delicious. The duck liver pate was devoured in…
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Food to go with beer… Crumbed duck shanks
As promised here is the recipe for crumbed duck shanks with chilli jam. What they call a duck shank is actually the first joint of the wing. It’s still quite big and meaty and quite frankly, bloody delicious. If you get your duck from an old school farmer or butcher just explain to them what…
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the duckling diaries
Just a quick note, with photographic evidence, to let you know the ducklings are still with us… they are growing slowly and steadily but not very quickly. Hopefully they shall be ready in a month or so… The photo is with their mother. They survived a dog or fox attack is the first week of…