Showing posts with label duck confit hash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duck confit hash. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Duck Confit Hash

I got the inspiration for this recipe from this blog post, though I changed some details (and made Laurel's with sausage instead of duck):

http://eatlikeagirl.com/2013/12/08/duck-confit-hash-for-sunday-breakfast-recipe/

Ingredients:

Duck Leg Confit (I bought mine from McCall's Meat and Fish already prepared) or breakfast sausage
Duck Fat (The duck leg I bought was great, but did not include enough fat for the potatoes)
Potatoes, cubed for hash
Red Onion, sliced in half moons
eggs
white wine vinegar
salt
pepper
parsley

Begin by boiling the potatoes until tender and then drain.  While they are boiling fry the onions on a medium low heat in duck fat (about 2 tablespoons) until they brown and carmelize. Be careful not to get too hot or they will blacken not brown.



Heat the duck leg in about a 350 degree oven until warm.  The confit doesn't really need to cook so just make sure its warm and the skin is crisp then remove from the oven.  Alternatively, if you are using sausage, heat a tablespoon or so of the duck fat and remove the sausage from its casing and break up in the pan.  Allow it to brown...



Bring a saucepan of water to a boil, add salt and a few tablespoons of white wine vinegar.

In another pan, add 2 tablespoons of duck fat and brown the drained potatoes until they start to crisp.  Then add the onions and, if using, sausage.  If using duck confit, break up the leg meat and skin with a fork and add.

Drop 2 eggs in the boiling water and poach for about 2 and a half minutes.  Serve hash on a plate and top with poached egg and chopped parsley. Salt and pepper to taste and serve...








Saturday, June 28, 2014

Down and Out (of district) in Beverly Hills

Hey Laurel here...Me and Mark just sat down to another nine-o brunch, Mark made a duck confit breakfast hash with a poached egg on top.  He made a special one for me with sausage instead because I'm not so into the duck.  Potatoes, caramelized onions, it's delicious!  I brought stuff for Aperol Mist...a beer, aperol, and lemon cocktail but I forgot the lemons.  I think we might be onto something, I would totally make it again with the lemon but mark thought the Aperol made the beer too bitter.

So this episode is about Andrea possibly getting kicked out of school because she lives out of district (the valley!).  She uses her grandmother's address and takes a bunch of buses to get to school every day.

Brandon enters Andrea into a journalism contest which she wins, so someone from the school wants to write a profile on her, which somehow means coming to her house to interview her parents?  When the guy shows up at Andrea's grandmother's house its obvious that she doesn't actually live there so the school launches an investigation, but in the end Andrea decides to actually move in with her Grandmother so then everything's fine.

We both thought this episode was going to be insufferable because it's Andrea centric, but her grandmother saved the day!  She was awesome.  Funny and no nonsense. Andrea gave a few lectures that were annoying but besides that it was totally fine.  Also Steve gets a girlfriend this episode but it turns out she only likes him because he's rich.  Poor Steve.

Mark here...  Well FINALLY we get a little background on Andrea! I can't tell you how many times Laurel and I have looked at each other and said "What's Andrea's story?" or "I wish we knew more about Andrea!"  Well, this episode we finally get some background, and surprise surprise, Andrea's a bore.  Laurel is right though, the episode really wasn't as bad as it could have been.  Saved mainly by Andrea's grandmother being entertaining.

Otherwise, there's not too much to add about the episode.  Steve gets his heart broken by a rich girl who is only interested in him because his mom is a famous actress.  Kelly is onto the girl from the beginning but Steve dismisses her.

The drinking moments are anytime Andrea launches into a speech or monologue...

The quote of note is after after one of these monologues where Andrea goes on a tirade about her life, Brenda says, "Andrea, why are you so upset?"  like she heard none of it.

No style award this episode, it was pretty much just your usual 90s garb.