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I love Sunday dinners and this is my last month for them since I am working Sundays from July to forever
I will just have to make Sunday dinners on Wed, Thur or Fri but it is harder to get the family together that is for sure ....we will figure it out I guess....do you guys do them?
if so what do you prepare? do you have a traditional every Sunday food?
who comes to your house or do you go over to others...?
I think it is such a nice tradition for people family or otherwise to gather and eat together at least one day a week
Today we are gathering for my husbands birthday ..old man that he is this is the very last year in his forties
he got some cool gifts you guys Tommy Bahama shirt and slacks and a massage office chair for his new office from Sharper Image ...spoiled man adores raspberries and is getting a labor of love from the kitchen today ...are you ready
a nice walnut salad with romaine, gorgonzola fresh raspberries and raspberry vinegrette
Raspberry duck
3 spoons of raspberry vodka (I make my own but just putting fresh or frozen raspberries in a bottle of Absolute regular (or any decent vodka) for about a month )
1 duckling
1 cup water mixed with one knorr chicken cube
3 lemons
1 cup of fresh raspberries
salt and freshly ground pepper
Inject the duck with a spoon of the liquor
and put a lemon in the cavity. Truss the
duck. Rub the skin with the juice of the
other lemon, salt, and pepper.
Roast, breast side up on a roasting pan with
a rack for 30 minutes at 325 F. Continue
baking and baste every 20 minutes for 1.5
hours.
When duck is done, remove the fat from the
pan and heat on the range. Add the chicken
stock and reduce for a minute or two,
scraping the bottom and the sides of the
pan. Then add the raspberries and the rest of
the liqueur and lower heat. Cook for 5
minutes.
Place duck on serving dish and pour sauce
on and around it.
Serves 2 ...I copied and tweeked this from a back current duck recipe... I have to double it for four
Persian rice (the really only high carb dinner item)
roasted ripe tomatoes (just olive oil salt and pepper poke holes and toss in oven sometime during the duck cooking time
for dessert raspberry mousse
I am very excited about this meal!!!
)so they always have something I can eat. Even if she's making chicken slathered in high-carb BBQ sauce, she always remembers to do 1 or 2 without the sauce for me and has some mashed cauliflower or a salad waiting for me while every gnoshes potatoes. Mom doesn't cook anything fancy or gourmet, but it's all very satisfying, her cooking.
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