Thursday, 12 May 2011

Recipe for The Roasted Duck della Rio

Ok so your team fought valiantly in the Grande Finale, now it is time to feed those hearts and minds and world weary mountain bellys and what better than a roasted duck to suckle on.
First take a trip to waitrosio have a walk round, then Aye caramba the duck is on a speciale offerta, you dive down like Alvarez the Rio Grande goalkeeper and safely deliver the duck into your basketa. Now go forth and pick up some Charlotta potatoes, a pack of spring greens a head of garlico and 2 shallots. Now turn in a beautiful pirouette like the wonderful midfielder Milanetto and delicately pluck out 50 grammes of root ginger.

One Duckio or a duckio crown.
1 bag of charlotte tatties
2 shallots
50 grammes of giner
some spring greens
garlic.
some cammomile flowers or tea bags if not.
honey

Now run home as fast as those little legs will carry you and your beating heart.
Fire up the Forno oven to about 190
take the Duck place in a roasting pan with love.
with a knife score the fat on top of el grande duck in a criss cross fashion
smother with cammomila and honey like a wet dusting from paradiso.
now take the potatoes and put in the pan around the duck with a knob of butter and about 25ml of water.
Put this heady mix into the oven.
After about 45 minutes of roasting turn down to 160 the skin should be getting nice and crispio now on the duck.
during this 45 minutes feel free to play some pro evo, meditate up in the mountains or become amorous with the one you love, remember this is your time not just the ducks.
Now roast for another 20 minutes.
then take out the duck and wrap in foil and leave to rest for 20 mins. carry on roasting your charlottes though, you want them as tanned as soft mountain leather óle.
Now grab your springy greens and chop finely, slice some garlic and shallot and ginger, put on a pan atop of your aunties old Andulsian stove and sweat them down like Keith.
now add the spring greens and a some butter and a splash of stock.
cook these for about 15 mins on a medium heat.
now grab spome bowls invite the village throw some potatoes and greens in the bowl, slice the duck run to the village square eat and make merry, for one night we are the greatest team ever to come from the mountains
VIVA RIO GRANDE

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