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Meat Recipe #19 – Curried Duck

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This recipe was provided to me a while back by Brent Barlow, editor of Community Capers, MC of the annual Rylstone Street Feast and one of the head honcho’s of KRR.fm.  As someone who always has a few of our ducks to spare, as well as a ton of their eggs, I’m always on the lookout for new recipes to use up our mouth-watering waterfowls.

Recipe – Curried Duck Eggs

This following has become an absolute favourite in our household!  Whilst a bit too spicy for our kids, my wife and I love it and the leftovers are great to heat up at work the next day.  So without further ado, enjoy Brent’s Curried Duck.

 

Ingredients:

 

*1 duck, quartered

*Salt

*2 tablespoons vegetable oil

* 2 cups water

*1 chopped onion

*3 cloves of garlic

*1 small cinnamon stick

*1 tablespoon minced ginger

*1 tablespoon curry powder

*1 teaspoon whole cumin

*1 teaspoon ground turmeric

*1 teaspoon whole coriander

*1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

*1 diced tomato

*1 teaspoon garam masala

*1 small can coconut milk

*Chopped fresh coriander to taste

*Lemon juice to taste

* 1 cup of Jasmin rice.

 

Meat Recipe #13 – Roasted Duck in Crabmeat Sauce

 

Method

*Choose one plump duck, pluck, gut and quarter

*Season the duck with salt, put the pan with oil on a high heat and brown on both sides.  Set aside.

*Pour oil from pan into sauspan.  Put onion in the saucepan on medium heat.  Add the garlic, ginger, whole coriander, turmeric, cayenne pepper, curry powder and cinnamon stick.  Slowly stir until the onion becomes translucent.

*Add the tomato and stir.  Add two cups of water and further stir for a few minutes.

*Add duck pieces, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

*Add coconut milk and garam masala, stir and simmer uncovered on a low heat for another 15 minutes.

*Add fresh coriander and lemon juice to taste.  Serve with Jasmin rice.

 

Meat Recipe #12 – Roasting your own Duck

 

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Burger Review #9 – Double Royal

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Nothing like an upscale Burger Bar.  You know the type, they are going to give you a hefty feed but it’s not going to be made out of ingredients that they nipped out and bought from the discount isle at the supermarket, then stuck in the deep freeze until needed.

Such a Burger Bar is The Oxford in Bathurst, which we headed to after watching my kids go hard in their Brazillian Jujitsu tournament.  Being a Tarantino fan I immediately noticed they had a burger named Royale with Cheese.  But then I noticed something bigger – the Double Royal.

Burger Name: Double Royal (with fries)

Price: $28.50

Description: 2 x100% Wagyu Beef Patties, Pickles, Onions, Mustard, Double the Cheese, BTS Sauce, Cos Lettuce, Tomato & Texas BBQ Sauce.

Burger Review #6: The E-I-E-I-O Burger

Whilst not the biggest burger ever made, nor the most flavourful ever made, this burger is a far step above what you will get at any fast food restaurant.  The quality of the ingredients, the way the different flavours complimented each other – even the size itself – should make a Big Mac’s buns turn red with embarrassment for daring to also call itself a burger.

Not to say this was the greatest burger I’ve ever had, but it was a damn solid feed and tasted mighty fine!  The only downside was that with three condiments – the mustard, BTS Sauce and Texas BBQ Sauce, the burger only lasted so long before the buns became too saturated to hold it together. The melted cheese added to this problem too, rather than acting as a dairy-based adhesive.

Making the transition from Burger to Sloppy Joe – don’t judge it’s lifestyle choices

Also, given it was $28.50, a bigger serving of chips I feel was warranted.

Fill the tray mate!

But overall this was a very good burger and I would recommend it if visiting The Oxford in Bathurst.  I look forward to returning there in the future as their menu had many options containing huge sums of meat so, much like Bootleggers in Katoomba, seems to be very Big Angry Trev oriented.

Burger Review #4: Pulled BBQ Wagyu

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Burger Review #7: Southern Style Chicken Burger

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Yea-haw! Fried chicken! Get me some grits, a banjo and a bottle of moonshine and I’m in hog heavan, boy-howdy!

I love fried chicken. But so few places serve it these days because it is so unhealthy. You can get crumbed chicken anywhere, but not it’s fried friend. You can always go to a KFC I guess, but whereas it was my favourite food as a teenager I can’t stand the oily filth that it is has degenerated into over the decades.

So I was pretty chuffed when I took the family out for a relaxing lunch on a surprisingly mild winters day to The Globe Hotel in Rylstone and saw on their lunch menu Southern Style Chicken Burger.

This was a good sized burger with a very big chicken breast inside. And with burgers, like with all facets of life, the bigger the breast the better! This one certainly added to the height of the burger considerably.

There was a bit much slaw on the bottom for my liking but it really wasn’t too much and between it and the crispiness of the chicken it meant this burger had a lot of crunch value.

There was quite a bit of bacon popped in to the burger, and although it was quite fatty it was still pretty nice. There was your requisite tomato and onion, some cheese the menu didn’t mention, but it was the ‘special sauce’ that was the real stand out – for both good and ill – of the condiments.

It was hard to pin down what the special sauce actually was. Something like a sweetened ranch dressing but with a little bit of spice thrown in to give it a kick. While it was really nice and added some much needed moisture to what would otherwise be a dry burger, it was it’s distribution that let it down. On one side of the burger there was hardly any, leaving you wanting more. On the other side of the burger there was way too much, so much so you couldn’t taste anything else. In the middle it was perfect. Obviously whoever made the burger squirted it on top of the chicken without regard for evenness, which really detracted around the outer edges from what was otherwise a damn tasty feed.

So if you find yourself at The Globe and see it on the menu, I heartily recommend you give this burger a try. At $16 it’s not particularly cheap, but given its size and the amount of chips that come with it you will definitely leave full. Just hope they get that sauce distribution right.

 

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