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Or, It helps to know where to shop
After lunch today, I wandered around Chinatown a little. Kam Man (on Canal Street) for pickled ginger (this time I read the ingredients, and there's no aspartame in it), frozen edamame, and a tin of mackerel filets with ginger (it looked interesting and only cost a dollar). Then east to Mott, south to Bayard, and back up Mulberry to Canal. That route was selected to pass the Mulberry Meat Market: they sell raw meat, cooked roast meats (duck, chicken, pork), and dumplings. Today I got lucky: they had fresh ducks (as distinct from either frozen or already cooked), at a reasonable price. So I bought one, for $6.60.
Duck is easy to cook: the only complication in this was that I decided to make stuffing, which meant chopping and sauteeing and deciding what to mix in. A 4-pound duck is a fine meal for two adults and one eager cat. I may boil the carcass for stock, or I may not: we froze a reasonable amount of chicken stock last week.
After lunch today, I wandered around Chinatown a little. Kam Man (on Canal Street) for pickled ginger (this time I read the ingredients, and there's no aspartame in it), frozen edamame, and a tin of mackerel filets with ginger (it looked interesting and only cost a dollar). Then east to Mott, south to Bayard, and back up Mulberry to Canal. That route was selected to pass the Mulberry Meat Market: they sell raw meat, cooked roast meats (duck, chicken, pork), and dumplings. Today I got lucky: they had fresh ducks (as distinct from either frozen or already cooked), at a reasonable price. So I bought one, for $6.60.
Duck is easy to cook: the only complication in this was that I decided to make stuffing, which meant chopping and sauteeing and deciding what to mix in. A 4-pound duck is a fine meal for two adults and one eager cat. I may boil the carcass for stock, or I may not: we froze a reasonable amount of chicken stock last week.