Food, sewing and love: Duck Stew

I didn't mention, yesterday me and Totty had a nice cosy lazy day in, the weather was rubbish, so we had a Sunday lunch. That in itself is a bit of a rarity.

We had the normal, nice veggies, bit of stuffing, that I sexed up with a bit of garlic. Totty had duck that I roasted.

Now there was a lot of duck left on the carcase, which was fine. Totty had indeed had his fill at lunch time, and there was enough for a couple of weekday sandwiches.

I popped the carcase in a pan with four small onions just quartered, three carrots unceremoniously hacked up and thrown in and of course almost enough water to cover the whole thing.

That was left on a low heat to do it's own thing for a couple of hours.

This morning it was cool, so I put it in the fridge and revisited it when I got in from work.

What you can't quite see from this photo is that the liquid is jellified. so I would guess that there is a lot of flavour and goodness. I expected a lot of fat, but there wasn't.

So in a larger pan I fried off three small onions with a little oil. The pan got a bit dry, so I slugged in that bottle of wine that is having quite an outing this evening.

When the onions were looking to be a little transparent, I strained in the stock from the pan that you see above.

I picked off the remainder of the meat from the duck, and added a little of the smooshed vegetables to the soup pan.

At this point it is important to mention that I had a little helper. Yes that's Bean, giving me the evil eye and ordering me to give her some duck. Isn't it fantastic how a cat can look menacing and cute at the same time?

In went about a medium handful of pearl barley, and another slug of wine, lots of pepper. Four or five peeled potatoes and six peeled carrots, in large batons.