Happy New Year 2018, my blogger friends!
Hopefully, you had a great start of the new year 🙂 At the end we are back from Mexico, so it has been really tiring… Time difference with jet – lag, our little monkey at the end with antibiotics (as he has tonsillitis, ear infection and teething with molars) and trying to settle down here again. I am so tired. We handled long flight with our little one pretty well, however we waited a bit more than 7 hours in Mexico City and believe me, with little baby, not that much fun. However, the flight was great… actually, my little boy was absolutely amazing. He slept almost the whole flight (as it was the same on the way to Mexico) and I want to call myself a lucky mum 🙂 Our whole journey door to door took more than 20 hours and all of us were completely exhausted. But… we managed! And we had our New Year dinner at home. Happy and sad together… Happy being at home, together and sad because we are again alone and without family around. It was amazing to be with everyone, to see how our little one is adjusting in completely different environment and… He did his first “steps alone” there!!! And he has caught up a lot of Spanish and I can clearly see, that he understands all three languages. I am still amazed about babies abilities, they are real sponges! 🙂
Let´s get back to our New Year´s dinner. As soon as we arrived, we bought a duck. My dad has told me that the best duck is the one, which is baked at least 16 hours. Soooo… Enough time for us to have a rest as well and let the oven do the job 🙂
What do you need:
1 whole duck (size depends on you and how many people are going to eat, I have chosen smaller one as only two of us ate)
300 g red cabbage (fresh one or canned)
salt
ground cumin
1 tbsp oil
3 bay leaves
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1 vegetable stock
1 onion
potatoes (I always cook 2 pieces per person)
Firstly, marinate the duck. And… it is really simple – just with salt and cumin. Marinate it properly, from all possible angles 🙂 As I said at the beginning, my dad has recommended me to bake the duck at least 16 hours. However, I did not do it exactly that long, but long enough!
Baking has couple of steps: Put marinated duck into the pot suitable for oven, ideally with lid. If you do not have a lid, aluminium foil is great. Firstly, bake the duck for 80 degrees for 6 hours in the oven. Afterwards, increase the oven temperature up to 120 degrees and bake it for 3 hours. After those 3 hours, check if the meat is soft and tender. If so, you can increase temperature to 180 degrees and bake covered approximately 1.5 hour and then around 35 minutes uncovered so you can get a nicely crispy parts on top.
I like duck meat with red cabbage (white is good as well) and dumplings. However this time, I was not able to make dumplings, but you can check the recipe here. I prepare it with potatoes which go well with duck and cabbage too. The red cabbage preparation is mentioned in post here.
Hopefully, you had a great start of the New Year as we did. And if you decide to prepare duck this way, enjoy it!
Your Vero and little Canito
28 thoughts on “New Year in our kitchen”
pawprintsandmint
Happy New Year to you as well!
How decadent with all of the the vibrant colours in this dish, it looks so good!
( and Cabbage *drools* love it!!! ) haha
Cheers,
M & Bear
http://www.pawprintsandmint.com
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you very much! 🙂 Ah yes.. Cabbage is my favourite too ❤ 🙂
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foodzesty
Happy New Year Vero!! and welcome back 🙂 I am happy you all had a great time in Mexico with family 🙂 This recipe looks and sounds great but since we don’t eat Duck I guess I can substitute it with Chicken? 🙂
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you, Sophie! ❤ 🙂 Yes, we had a good time, however it was tiring. I feel really exhausted now 😀 I think, you can. However, I would probably use sweet paprika instead of cumin 😉 How are you?
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foodzesty
I prefer paprika :)…It was a long trip I can understand why your so tired. I am ok 🙂
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Cannot wait to get rid of jet lag 😀 😀 Hopefully soon, you will be great ❤ I am free tomorrow if you want 🙂
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Teti
I will agree with Sophie, since I do not like that much duck but your recipe is a must try so I will try it by using chicken!I am very glad that you and your beautiful family enjoyed Christmas with your beloved ones!Don’t be sad if they live away from you, mine family lives away from me too but I am feeling very blessed for having them in my life!
Happy New Year!
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Brizzy Mays Books and Bruschetta
Vero, you are amazing. After your adventures and travelling I would be dishing up toast !
Welcome home.
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Ah, thank you so much! 😘💞 I needed to distract myself otherwise I would you sleep and collapse 😂 Hopefully, you had a great Christmas!
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Moony
Interesting duck recipe! Over here we usually have it roasted, or braised in soy sauce, or made into soup with pickled mustard leaves and fresh tomatoes.
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you very much! 💞😉 Yours sound as well very good!
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a little Swiss, a little Canadian
Happy new year! Glad to hear you had a wonderful trip! Hope your little one gets well soon! I’ve never had duck before, but looks yummy. I love red cabbage, made it for christmas; beef roast, mashed potatoes and red cabbage.❤
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you very much! 🙂 Ah, I love red cabbage as well! And your dish sounds great… 🙂
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mistimaan
Great recipe…….Happy new year 🙂
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you! Happy new year to you too! 🙂
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Karin, theaustriandish
Happy to Year to you, Vero! Just before Christmas we had this dish (with knedlicky) in a Bohemian restaurant in Vienna. So tasty!
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Happy New year, Karin! ❤️ Ah, with knedlicky it would be much better! I was really not in mood prepare any… I am glad you liked it 😉
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Rini
Wow. Sounds like you had quite the adventure. And 16 hours to cook a duck? That’s got to be a super tasty duck. Happy New Year Vero!
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you very much, Rini! 🙂 Happy New Year to you too!!! ❤
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Laura @ Feast Wisely
Yum and Happy New Year – what a feast to start 2018!
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you, Laura! 🙂 Happy New Year to you too! 🙂 ❤
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rosekirbyarnold
Happy new year
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Happy New year to you too!!! 💞 Thank you!
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Rhonda Sittig
Welcome home Vero!!! Wow– what a journey, both coming and going and all you did in between!! I’m sure you’ll have so many amazing memories. Sorry about Canito– is he feeling OK by now?? This dinner looks so festive!! I’ve never cooked a duck, ate a lot of duck in China!! hugs hugs to you all.
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Thank you, Rhonda! Finally he is, however it took time for him to get better. But all good ❤️💞 ah, we do and already missing family around and México as well. Thank you! My dad used to prepare it and I love it. Ah yes, China! Have you been there? I have really good Chinese friend (we used to live together in the Netherlands) and ate lot of Chinese food too and duck in China. Different, but delicious 😍😉 Lot of hugs from crazily windy UK 💞
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Rhonda Sittig
Hi Vero– I was wondering if you were coming home to blustery weather!! Yep, our son lived in China for eleven years and we visited him every year! He’s married to wonderful Jodi from central China and our son-in-law is from Hong Kong. So we get our good share of Chinese food. When the kids were with us all last month Jodi and a friend visiting from China spent a day making over 200 dumplings for a dumpling feast! Well, stay snug friend. Wondering how you’re settling in back home. xox
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Vero and Canito in the kitchen
Ah, that´s amazing!!! 🙂 I have great friend from central China living now in Hong-Kong. Wow…. So you are enjoying proper Chinese food. We has settled, but not together as we are going to be moving soon… 🙂 Stay warm, Rhonda! Lot of hugs 🙂
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Rhonda Sittig
Happy packing Vero!! xox
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