July 11, 2024 Lunch - Cesar Salad. Dinner - Roasted Duck with Maraschino cherry sauce with rice and green beans

 July 11, 2024 Lunch - Cesar Salad. Dinner - Roasted Duck with Maraschino cherry sauce with rice and green beans

I ate the last pain au chocolate with a latte macchiato for breakfast.

Then for lunch I made a Cesar salad with romaine lettuce, croutons, slices of Pecorino Romano, a diced tomato, slices of cucumber, and preserved anchovies dressed with a Cesar dressing rejuvenated with Spanish olive oil and lemon juice.

I drank a glass of Kirkland New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc with the salad.

Suzette called during the afternoon and wanted me to prepare dinner. I responded that I wanted duck, I had bought a package of roasted duck which is prepared and only requires 20 minutes at 375 degrees to heat and crisp the skin.  In addition, I made rice with 1/2 each of jasmine and Red rice of the Carmague and I snapped green beans.

Suzette sautéed the green beans with slivered almonds and I chilled the Jean XXV Chateau Neut de Pape I bought at Trader Joe’s this morning with 11 other bottles of wine and two bottles of Chevalier VS cognac.

Suzette heated and reduced some of her maraschino cherries and liquid to make a delightful light cherry sauce.

                                       The duck meat sauced with maraschino cherries

                                         The plate before the addition of duck meat

It was an easy dinner to make and we both loved it and we have 1/2 of the duck meat left for a salad or another meal.

We love this roasted duck product because it is so quick and easy to obtain the end result that is similar to the three day effort described in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Coking. At $10.00 for each roasted duck half, the cost of the duck meat may even be cheaper that buying an entire duck.

We finished the evening by watching Midsomer Mystery sipping cognac and eating a couple Ghirardelli dark chocolate caramel squares.

Bon Appetit