Elemental mercury is actually not all that hazardous unless you ingest it. Still wouldn’t want kids playing with it. Or making a lead-mercury amalgam in a saucepan in the garage. Not that I would know anything about that. 👀

I had a big jar of mercury from an old barometer in my garage cabinet; one of my kids’ friends wanted to ‘look at it’ and dropped it, shattering it on the concrete floor. I came home to HFD HAZMAT in my garage because my oldest called ’em.

She is, and I will!

Visit the web site of your 99 Ranch market first. The one technically closest to me only has frozen ducks. The other one has whole, head-and-feet-on fresh ducks, duck legs, duck wings and duck feet.

I have never made duck confit before, so I don’t have a preferred recipe. But the ones I am looking at do dry brine the duck overnight in salt, herbs, and alliums.

Cassoulet sounds fantastic!

I discovered 99 Ranch Market sells fresh duck legs, and I have a bunch of duck fat now, so confit is happening soon!

Damn. The part of chef life people don’t think about. 😢

We actually fed 10 people yesterday including me. The majority of stuff I made was vegan-friendly, but not the three roast ducks or the pumpkin pies.

Duck carcass start becoming stock immediately after carving. Today is Gumbo Day.

I bought my ducks at an Asian market so there aren’t any giblets. They sell those separately.

But I have feet and heads in the instant pot right now.

This is the way.

LOL I subjected my wife to this last week.

Might have gone for a walk with some friends…