Drum roll, please! The main ingredient for our traditional Danish Christmas dinner – duck – is already bought, in our cellar and all ready to put into a roasting hot oven on 24 December (the day the Danes celebrate Christmas)! 😀
We decided a couple of years back that it was silly buying a whole duck when everyone in the family wanted a leg. (Because we have to feed more than 4 people…) So we now buy confit de canard, which we L-O-V-E. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a French thing – duck legs are boiled for a couple of hours in fat, allowed to cool then stored in large tins full of (duck) fat. Which preserves them for years. All you have to do at home is remove the legs from the tin, allow them to drip off and then pop them into the oven for about 30 minutes. Outside: fantastically crispy duck skin. Inside: meat which falls off the bone and melts in the mouth. Heaven!
Traditionalists will no doubt be aghast but we say “Phooey!”. After all, shouldn’t Christmas be as stress-free as possible? And doing what you enjoy instead of what you’re ‘supposed’ to do?
16 legs…lots to go round!
Luckily for me, a local supermarket had confit de canard on special offer this week. A tin containing 4 duck legs normally costs around 150 kroner, but I got them for 100 each. (Yes, I know we can buy them for half the price in France but – malheureusement – we didn’t have that much space in our suitcases this year.)
In other news…we are now approaching the Danish autumn school holiday week – a time when I usually bake our Christmas cake with the kids. Candace is going to bake one again with me this year. If you want to join us, leave me a comment and we can put our pinnies on together!
If you’ve got any good Christmas planning ideas to share, why don’t you add your blog with the McLinky below? Go check out what my twisters are doing – we’re all working on different projects, using different planners (I use the Flylady system). There’s no need for you to start Christmas planning yet – but you may want to get some inspiration for when you are ready… 🙂
Have a great Sunday! 😀
Phooey!!! Of course you should DO and EAT what you enjoy for any occasion! This is one way to keep the leg wrestling to a minimum.(I'm a leg girl too)
Mmmmm cake…don't have to ask twice, I'll give it a go!
Glad to have you aboard, Jen! If you click on the *our Christmas cake* link above, it will take you to the recipe 🙂
The duck sounds delicious! I'll prowl around the local gourmet shops to see if it something I can get here. ms. caboo & I are sharpening our wooden spoons & shining our mixing bowls so we can make the Best Christmas Cake Ever 😀