Since I often forget to take pictures as we go along (though my iPhone and Twitter have made that less of a problem than it used to be) I asked guests at the meal to take pictures, too! Here are some, including a course I managed not to get any photos of prep or service, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘duck day’
Lapsong souchong broth Soup Dumplings Shanghai-style
A couple of people have asked for the Lapsong Souchong broth Soup Dumpling recipe. It was our first time making Soup Dumpling and we learned a bunch. Our basic guide was Andrea Nguyen’s cookbook ASIAN DUMPLINGS. There is far more in there than I can reproduce here without feeling like a copyright infringer, so get [...]
Coconut brown butter financiers: green tea or chocolate variations
Coconut Brown Butter Financiers Recipe: Green Tea or Chocolate Variation Makes 3264 bite size petit fours EDIT: MAKES 64! not 32. I forgot it fills two loaf pans, not one, until I found the uncut loaf I had set aside for snacking on later this week. Yum. Egg whites : 150 g (about 5-6 eggs) [...]
Duck Day 2012 Menu: The Seven Essentials
Duck Day 2012: The Seven Essentials Tradition holds that there are “seven essentials for Chinese life” and that these make for a civilized household in what is colloquially called “Open Door Seven Items”: wood, rice, oil, salt, soy/fermented sauces, vinegar, tea. (Some attribute this list to Confucius, but it is probably older.) This year’s menu incorporates [...]
Our “Duck Day 2011″ (Thanksgiving) menu
Okay, here it is, the menu from this year’s Duck Day extravaganza. The planning took place last week at a dinner at Journeyman, at which Scliff said “Why don’t we do Mexican or Southwestern?” To which corwin and I said, “Okay!” It’s a cuisine we hadn’t done for a Duck Day dinner party, but we’ve [...]
Duck Day Photo Post #3:
Duck Day Photo Post #3:
Duck Day Photo Post #2:
Duck Day Photo Post #2:
Duck Day Photos, #1
Photos from our 2010 Duck Day extravaganza. I didn’t make any attempt to really photo document the whole meal, just snapped some pictures here and there of food along the way. You’ll have to go over to my blog to see them, where they’re resized accordingly. I’m also going to break it into three posts [...]
Duck Day 2010 Menu
And here’s the menu from our annual thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat. corwin has been calling it Duck Day since the first one of these he did 25 years ago. This is the 19th one I’ve done with him! Cool, eh? Since it was the 25th, he compiled all the old menus he could [...]
