Since we're not eating indoors in restaurants, the three of us had a few meals of takeout food sitting on a bench or at a little table on/near de la Gaucheterie, near the Scintillation hotel. We also managed two meals of the duck rillette I bought at Marche Jean Talon on the Friday afternoonL with a baguette as dinner that night, and a bit as breakfast before checking out on Monday. [personal profile] carbonel recommended that I go there while we were comparing out purchases, and I have thanked her, because it was good. (I got two small packages of duck rillettes from the refrigerator section, which we ate Friday night and Monday morning, plus shelf-stable jars of duck rillettes and duck creton, which are now in our pantry.)

All those quick meals of dumplings and such meant I had almost no fruit or vegetables for a few days. I've been making up for that, some, including with the first local strawberries of the season: [personal profile] adrian_turtle bought a quart at the Davis Square Farmers Market yesterday, which I finished as part of my breakfast this morning, and [personal profile] cattitude got another quart of strawberries at the Brookline farmers market today.

Tonight we will be having falafel, in pita Adrian picked up in Watertown, and there's a jar of taramasalata for later.

Since Adrian wasn't home for lunch yesterday or today, Cattitude made cheese sandwiches for lunch yesterday, and at his request I made a cheese omelet today, with a little red pepper left from last night's pasta salad.
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( Dec. 15th, 2020 10:10 pm)
We had duck breast for supper tonight. It's not a special occasion, unless "the supermarket has good duck for sale" counts as an occasion.

[personal profile] cattitude made a sauce from the pan drippings, shallots, and I forget what else other than thyme and some kind of alcohol, and put that over rice. We bought the duck because it was available: when I was looking at Wegman's via Instacart, they not only had duck breasts, they had whole ducklings, and duck legs, and rendered duck fat. We splurged a little, and bought a duck breast, a package of two duck legs, and some duck fat. And potatoes to cook in the duck fat.

What surprised me wasn't just that Wegman's had duck (which they haven't in the months I've been ordering from them), but that in addition to the d'Artagnan ducks and duck parts, there were two or three duck things from a different company. I can't usually buy rendered duck fat where I live; this time, they had duck fat from two different farms.

My best guess is that this nice duck was at the supermarket because restaurants aren't buying it, because most people aren't dining out.

What I hoped for and didn't get was a loaf of challah, because there's a winter storm warning. I have plenty of eggs, and got two quarts of milk, but they had run out of challah. We did get a loaf of seeded rye bread, and I may make French toast even though that's not one of the standard French toast breads.
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