Breaking ground for NEW French Kitchen Adventures
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Confit de Canard. Duck Confit…part 3- 7 French Tips
Time Warp Portal Behind this door lies the secret of several generations of French cooking lore and savoir-faire. How fitting that my friend Greg Orr neither knocked nor rang the sonnette, but boldly walked in thorugh the heavy tapestry curtains and called out “Catou! France! We’re here!” And so we were, here at the Chateau de Gayrac for a Fat Duck weekend with les Soeurs Mazet. But in which century? Catou and France weave a magic spell over all who enter... Read More
Confit de Canard. Duck Confit. Part 2- like meat loves salt.
Confire- French verb to preserve, conserve. je confis tu confis il confit ‘Nous confisons un canard avec quatre tetes.’ We are preserving a duck with four heads. eh voila! for information about why 4 heads… see previous post. It took me longer to download and then upload these pictures then it did to make the confit. Way too long! So when my students complain (or comment) that real cooking takes so long, I protest. The virtual world might make some things... Read More
