working weekend

we spent most of the weekend working;. I don’t think we’ve had a full day off for about four weeks, and it’s starting to show … making silly mistakes with server config files and flailing formed a large part of yesterday afternoon :(

which meant that the Complicated Cooking I’d planned fell into abeyance - it will have to be Duck with Lentils and Ceps tonight. Anyway, we scoffed a full english for brunch, and all we could manage at the end of a long afternoon was a bag of Kettle chips and some chocolate raisins. Very healthy. I was thwarted in my probably foolish desire for a last half glass of wine by finding that the bottle I’d put in the fridge was in fact *red*, due to perlmonger’s inability to put the white wine in the left side of the wine rack. Probably just as well.

dining on duck

Well, we dined on duck a couple of weeks ago, and then I threw the carcass in the freezer to deal with later.

Pulled it out again at the weekend, and boiled it up for a couple of hours; we were driven demented by the aroma! And last night I stripped the meat off it - I was astonished at how much there was clinging to the bones. There was enough to make a risotto, or a stir fry.

However, according to the Met Office, a cold week is coming. And as we work at home, today I shall add chopped veg - leeks, carrots, celery, courgettes, potatoes - and some barley to the stock, *and* the duck meat … to hell with it.

And we shall feast on duck surprise soup for the rest of the week’s lunches. Yum.