It’s the beginning of the year, which means that it’s time to focus on healthy eating. So to kick off 20167’s first Tasty Tuesday, we’re chatting up salads leafy green vegetables, grains, pulses and infinite sadness. Yeah, maybe not. Let’s talk about one of the most ubiquitous dishes in the 70’s; a hallmark of French cuisine, and – when I was too young to know how much it all cost – one of my very favourite meals.
Canard à l’Orange! Crispy roast duck, served with an orange sauce. Fattier and richer than chicken, duck is a bit harder to cook right, but when it is, it transcends that most pedestrian of fowl. It’s complimented perfectly with a sweet, but not too sweet sauce made from reduced orange juice. Crispy skin, juicy roasted meat and that fresh citrus? It may have very much gone out of style, but it’s still sublime.
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Last Updated: January 12, 2016
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:02
I JUST finished eating a bacon, feta and avo footlong and now you made me hungry again.
Lardus-For the Emperor!
January 12, 2016 at 16:19
Bacon, Avo and Feta? You bastard! I have been looking for a place close to me that makes that! ;(
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:20
Sandwich Barron. Always yummy.
Lardus-For the Emperor!
January 12, 2016 at 16:29
Problem is, the last 3 times I went to the closest stores listed on their site, the had moved or closed down 🙁 I always took it on the French Loaf
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:30
I just read this and now I’m starving
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:31
2 Kinds of problems in this world.
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:32
Wish I couldn’t read 😛
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:04
I still hate tasty Tuesdays.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:06
Yea. Now I have to go all Gordon Ramsay style in my kitchen tonight or else I don’t feel satisfied with dinner.
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:07
LOL! You only eat at 1am… most of the time.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:08
But that’s normal…
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:09
O_o That’s 3 hours before I wake up for work.
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:11
It’s 5 – 6 hours after I eat supper.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:12
And I don’t eat breakfast or lunch, so dinner needs to keep me going for long xD
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:13
hahahahahaha
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:11
How can you get up at 4am everyday? I would go crazy
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:12
Only on days that end with a “y”
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
As long as the pay is very very very very VERY good xD
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:15
It’s in Rand, how good can it be? 😛
Plus I’m usually home just after 3.
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:29
Then it balances nicely
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:30
At least traffic is not such an issue around those times, but damn 4pm… if someone said something annoying to me at those times at work I would punch them instantly.
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:31
I drive 5 minutes to work yet I’m still alte most days O_o
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:32
Aren’t you always “alte”?
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:35
LOL only my second typo this year
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:32
That’s just it. Humans only start coming in at 8. By then most of my work is done and I’m ready for their crap
miaau
January 12, 2016 at 16:27
Lucky break, for you then, eh? Could be all of them, and then where would you be?
🙂
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:10
For you…
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 12, 2016 at 16:10
Looks underdone if you ask me. Maybe try cooking it well, instead of just cooking it right. 😉
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:12
I’d pay to see you eat duck that’s “well done”.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:13
Have you ever eaten duck? I still wanna try that myself 😛
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:15
Yeah I have. I’ve had it cooked right and I’ve had it cooked just short of Trevor style.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:17
Let it be know from now on we have Rare, Medium Rare…, Trevor and Trev to choose from
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:21
Blue, Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Trevor, Trevor, Real Trevor
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:22
I have forgotten about blue xD after a steak house got it totally wrong, now I just order Rare
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:22
surely rare, medium-rare, medium, @vam@illuchnemancera:disqus @tre@disqus_DoEH3TsffU:disqus ?
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:27
LOL! Nope, I eat my meat medium-rare to medium
Captain JJ 4x
January 13, 2016 at 07:39
My wife and I love duck. Had it served at our wedding.
Good stuff.
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
One day I will meet you in person. I’ll be the one with the flame-thrower pointed in your direction.
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
He’ll like that…
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
Ha! You have no taste!
miaau
January 12, 2016 at 16:15
I must admit to being a bit concerned myself, that very light colour in the middle is a bit worrying to me.
It still looks pretty cool, but nothing like a big juicy, thick piece of steak on a fire
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 12, 2016 at 16:17
I know right? Would love to see how many of these foodies would eat a piece of chicken that looks like that.
By the way, Woolies sells a 4-pack of butterflied chicken breasts that go very nicely on a braai.
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:18
Of course. I always knew you had to have some veggies with your charcoal.
miaau
January 12, 2016 at 16:19
They do indeed, they do indeed. Some lemon juice and some other stuff, maybe some feta stuffed in or not, as you choose, but yes, damn nice.
Also, Woolies burgers are quite nice too, almost as good as the ones from the Farmers market.
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:20
http://www.cattle-empire.net/sites/default/files/how_its_done.png
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:21
Good, good, edible, might as well give it to the dog, murder weapon.
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:22
This!
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:28
Bwahahaha
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:28
Well done = toss it in the garbage
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:30
Not even good enough for the dog anymore.
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:31
That’s tantamount to punishing a dog
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:32
Those braai days where someone else is braaing and the meat is done but they keep grilling away for a another 20 min xD
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
Oh man that looks good!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 12, 2016 at 16:14
You don’t!
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:15
You’d know! 0_O
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:28
Sounds like he was planning to eat you O_o
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:27
Delicious!
Jan Prins
January 12, 2016 at 16:16
But why is that meat so raw?????? R50.00 and a decent Vet can save that bird!
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:16
So…. It’s perfect.
Jan Prins
January 12, 2016 at 16:18
Dude. Seriously no.
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:19
Considering the stuff that’s come out of your mouth?
Jan Prins
January 12, 2016 at 16:22
I don’t expect people to eat the stuff that comes out my mouth, pay me like a gazillion dollars for it and go “Oooh now that was nice and fancy and ooh-la-la!
Lord Chaos
January 12, 2016 at 16:24
But like the words from your mouth are sounded by you, why not make the duck yourself?
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:27
Yes!
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:19
R50? Decent Vet? WTF Decent vets charge R50?
miaau
January 12, 2016 at 16:20
I was thinking more or less the same thing. Might be cheaper just to buy a new duck, frozen, and try again.
VampyreSquirrel
January 12, 2016 at 16:25
Probably is cheaper
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:43
My butcher
Geoffrey Tim
January 12, 2016 at 16:34
That’s actually a bit over. 😉
Jan Prins
January 13, 2016 at 07:57
Nope. You stick a fork in that meat and the duck will quack out in pain!
RinceThis
January 12, 2016 at 16:18
Just the way @tre@disqus_DoEH3TsffU:disqus likes his steak
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:37
O_o methinks the gods rejected the sacrifice
Ottokie
January 12, 2016 at 16:37
Break it open, there might be a diamond inside.
miaau
January 12, 2016 at 16:21
And, in a Black Adder moment, Duck. Its a rude word, right?
You know duck. It rhymes with… Black Adder, Black adder, blah, blah, sing sing song, Black adder
Hammersteyn
January 12, 2016 at 16:30
Duck me, that looks so goooooood