Showing posts with label Dishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dishes. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

5 Great Side Dishes to Serve With Duck

5 Great Side Dishes to Serve With Duck


A very sophisticated, yummy main policy to serve while a evening meal party is duck. And you can truly appreciate duck only with a side dish that improve the savor of duck meat. If you intend to cook a duck for your guests or for your family, you need to pick the exquisite side dish. Duck meat is tender, sweet and, unlike turkey or chicken, there's a lot of meat on the bones. The best side dishes for duck are those based on vegetables, accompanied by sour and sweet gravy.

Cabbage works great with duck. It might not sound so glamorous, but if it's cooked right, cabbage is an extraordinary side dish for duck. Chop the cabbage as finely as you can. Put a large pan on fire and add some sort of fat. If you have duck fat, it's perfect. If not, you can simply replace the duck fat with butter or a good potential vegetable oil. Wait until the fat from the pan heats up and add the finely chopped cabbage. For about 15 minutes, keep stirring inside the pan, to avoid burning the cabbage. After the cabbage turns softer and gets some color, you can put a few drops of water, to help the cabbage cooks better. The cabbage is done when it becomes surely soft and tender and gets a caramel-like flavor and color. Generally, you need about 30 minutes to cook the cabbage. It's a very simple, but sweet and flavored side dish, that works great with duck.

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Roasted vegetables are an additional one great side dish you can serve with duck. It's very easy to make, it will take you only 10 minutes to prepare and an additional one about 50 minutes in the oven. You can use all your favorite vegetables: carrots, celery and parsley roots, onions or garlic. Cut all the vegetables in pieces that have about the same size, wash them in cold water and let them dry. In the mean time, take a large pan, add some olive oil inside and start flavoring the oil with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, rosemary and oregano. Mix the olive oil and the flavors very well, and then add the vegetables. Make sure that the vegetables picked up some flavored oil on all sides. Cover the pan with some aluminum foil and place it in the hot oven for about 30 minutes. Then find the pan and let it inside the oven for an additional one 20 minutes, until all the vegetables are well roasted.


A warm red beet salad also goes very well with duck. Although it might take you a while to cook the red beet, the savor of this salad will perfectly complement the taste of duck meat. The first step is to cook the red beet. Wash them surely well and put them inside the hot oven, in a pan covered with parchment paper. That step will take a while - red beets taste much better if you bake the whole root, without cutting it in small pieces. However, it will take about two hours for the red beets to be bakes. Once they are ready, you have to chop the as finely as you can. Flavor the red beet salad with olive oil, salt, a pinch of sugar, a small quantity of horseradish and a generous amount of caraway seeds.

Mashed potatoes with caramelized onions are a sweet and flavored side dish, ideal for duck. prepare the mashed potatoes as you commonly do, with fullness of butter and milk. Cut the onions in slices and put them in a hot pan with olive oil, stirring continuously. In about 20 minutes, the onions will become soft and caramelized - they are ready when the color is light brown. The mixture between the mash potatoes, caramelized onions and duck is just divine.

Mashed pumpkin is simply yummy with duck. Bake the pumpkin in the oven, and after is completely cooked just mash it with butter, milk, salt and pepper, until it becomes a rich, creamy paste.

5 Great Side Dishes to Serve With Duck


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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Sherry, Sherry Baby - 5 Ways to Make Your Food Dishes Sing

Sherry, Sherry Baby - 5 Ways to Make Your Food Dishes Sing


As I was making evening meal the other evening and adding some sherry to the pan, the words from the Fours Seasons hit, "Sherry" popped into my head. I am not sure why. Maybe it is because the Jersey Boys show just left Minneapolis, but here I am writing about Sherry - the wine and how to use it in your kitchen.

French Onion Soup: The excellent recipes commonly call for ½ cup of white wine. That is great, but reconsider a ¼ cup of white wine and ¼ cup of Sherry. Or forget the white wine and add ¼ cup of Sherry. That soup will sing back to you with flavor.

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Pan Browned Pork Chops or Chicken Breasts: Season them lightly with salt, pepper, a rub of garlic. With the pork adding some rosemary is a must and it of course won't hurt the chicken. Saute them lightly in a non-stick pan with a touch of olive oil. When lightly browned, add a wee more diced garlic, dash or two of lemon pepper, and about 1/8 cup of Sherry. Pour about ¼ cup of chicken broth in the pan and cover. Let simmer until meat is done. Turn once. Pour the pan juices into a separate container. Brown off the chops or chicken. Remove and keep warm. Add the pan juices back, heat and thicken with a bit of cornstarch and water. Season to taste. Serve with meat.


Salads: Here we will use an offspring - Sherry Wine Vinegar. This is a new stock in my kitchen and I am not sure why I waited so long to try it. Use sherry wine vinegar with a good grade oil for a phenomenal salad dressing base. For a phenomenal new flavor, use the sherry wine vingear with nut oils - such as a walnut oil for a salad dressing base.

Veggies: an additional one use for the sherry wine vinegar is when sauteing veggies, such as fresh broccoli or spinach. Add a splash of the sherry vinegar to the oil and seasonings in the pan. I do not saute mushrooms to serve as a side dish without a touch of Sherry and Fine Herbes in the melted butter.

Sauces/Gravies: A splash of Sherry can delineate a phenomenal depth to a plain meat gravy. Saute some mushrooms, make your gravy and add a bit of sherry and the mushrooms. When I make a chicken or turkey pot pie, I add a very wee bit of Sherry to the sauce for the chicken and veggies. It is just that finishing touch.

Some foremost points to remember when cooking with Sherry.
It is not like other wines. It is a fortified wine. A wee can go a long way. Start gently and add as you taste. Do not substitute sherry cooking wine that you buy in the grocery store. It is full of additives and salt and has not much to do with the real thing. Start with a medium to medium dry Sherry. It is multi-purpose. You don't need the top of the line, but don't cheap out. Refrigerate after opening. It will keep well for a incorporate of weeks with a quarterly stopper. If you use a pressurized top, it can last much longer.

So let your dishes sing with flavor - use some Sherry.

Sherry, Sherry Baby - 5 Ways to Make Your Food Dishes Sing


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