Duck Eggs

Tonight, for dinner, we are having a salad with poached duck eggs. Eric bought them yesterday at the Green City Market, which is Chicago's weekly organic farmer's market, held in Lincoln Park. So although I have not made it to a farmer's market yet myself (I can't wait till Saturday!), we are eating farm fresh veggies now. And a damn good thing, too, since it's to hot to cook much inside. (We are grilling a lot.)

I don't think I've ever had a duck egg, nor Eric, but it's certainly an exciting idea. Chickens are just so pedestrian. I seem to recall the duck eggs are more sharpely tapered than chicken eggs, which tells me nothing about taste.

Chicken, on the other hand, is an old reliable friend. When we had to spend Sunday night in Providence unexpectedly (due to flight troubles), we ate stir-fried chicken sandwiches with my mother. They were delicious and satisfying and good for out airport-stressed stomachs.

Which reminds me that we had something delicious Tuesday, a concoction of my very own. We had a salad of carrots and cucumber with summer savory, garlic, red wine vinegar, olive oil, plus a dash of soy sauce, and pepper and salt. That was much more delicious than I had anticipated. We served it with lemon, savory, and hot pepper -marinated thigh meat that was stuffed with more savory and garlic, and then grilled. The whole thing, salad and meat, was wrapped in lettuce leaves, Vietnamese style. Try this at home!

Labels: food, personal

posted by Tony at 5:13 PM