Guinness duck ala leipzig

Yield: 2 servings

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Sure. Take 2 duck **** (it's shorter than spelling breasts) filets and pound a tad. Rub with a fine filligre of olive oil, garlic, sage and thyme. Set aside to marinate. In a bowl, combine ½ cup honey, some cinnamon ("some" according to taste ½ to 1 tsp.), allspice, coriander, a wee smite of sea salt, black pepper, paprika, nutmeg and ½ to 1 pint of Guinness. Slosh together, heating gently, and let marry in fridge for an hour or so. Take either pork sausage (breakfast variety) or other fine sausage (boudin is preferred down here in humidity valley; back home, bratwurst would have been just the ticket) roll each duck [breast] around a sausage and pin, viciously, with toothopicks (the wood variety, you knucklehead, not plastic...) Brown each duck [breast] in a shallow pan with some minced shallots, olive oil, shitaake mushrooms, and garlic. Just brown a bit, to loosen up some of that ever present duck fat. Remove duck [breasts] to a shallow baking pan and toss, vicariously, into a 400 degree (Farenheit, not Kelvin) oven for 15 minutes. Be sure to decant the oil and effluvia toss, vicariously, into a 400 degree (Farenheit, not Kelvin) oven for 15 minutes. Be sure to decant the oil and effluvia from pan first. After 5 minutes in the oven, dredge the pan and add 1 can frozen blackberries or raspberries over the ducky [breasts], return to heat. After 5-10 more minutes, slather the duck with the pan juice and add ½ the honey-Guinness mixture over the ducks. Let cook for 5-10 more minutes (it's a lot of [fooling] around, but well worth it...) then spoon the remaining mixture (-5 tablespoons) over the duck. Return to oven for last 5-10 minutes.

Remove duck from oven, prepare plate with snow peas, ginger fingers, julienne carrots and turnip, place 1 duck [breast] on plate, and spoon over both some oven tray juice (with fruit) and some of the leftover Guinness-honey mixture.

Sheer bliss will then ensue.

Damn near makes one want to turn Irish.

Submitted By DAN CEPPA On 07-07-95

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