I have yet to actually try duck, but this recipe looks absolutely delicious! Plus, it only takes 10 minutes of prep time.  Count me in!
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Ingredients
1 whole duck (peking, muscovy, or other)
salt, pepper
1-2 pounds red-skinned new potatoes
sage, optional
Instructions
If possible, salt your duck the night before and leave it, uncovered, in the fridge overnight.
Turn [...]

Now that the summer heat has really kicked in, I have had an urge for a frozen dessert almost every night. Ice cream isn’t always the healthiest choice & pre-packaged popsicles are often loaded with sugar.
After successfully making Pink Grapefruit & Strawberry Granita a few weeks ago, it dawned on me that I really [...]

Quick Idea: Boil your vegetables and pasta together from The Kitchn.
“Boiling your vegetables with your pasta isn’t going to give you layers of different flavors and textures, like adding roasted vegetables would. And it works best if you’re just adding one vegetable, so you aren’t tossing in different things at different times, all while making [...]

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Nothing beats pesto made from fresh-picked basil.  But, in the winter I often need to improvise with other green vegetables.  It turns out that I like spinach pesto so much, I’m going to make it year round.  Plus, spinach doesn’t go brown like [...]

I love to make this salad in the summer when plums are in season, but have found that if I soak off-season plums (or any other fruit, for that matter) in a bit of sugar in the refrigerator for a few hours it turns out almost as good. If you can’t find black plums, [...]