Duck in Orange Sauce

This vietnamese dish (as demonstrated by Rick Stein on tv) is sweet, spicy and fragrant..absolutely yummy! After carefully watching Mr Stein make the dish (thank goodness for recorded tv!) and noting down the ingredients, I then went grocery shopping sans the shopping list, smart!! So my version was missing lemon grass and spring onions! But still a good dish served with steamed rice.

The spices - Chilli padi, Palm Sugar, Ginger, Garlic, Star Anise. Missing is the lemon grass and spring onions!

Braised Duck

Braised duck is another Chinese New Year recipe at home and this is one of my favourites, it only appears on the table after the 2nd day of new year. The tender duck meat is to die for and sauce is delicous, if you can get pass the thick layer of duck fat. Finding the ingrediants here in Scotland was a bit of a challenge as I have the hokkien names but the shop is run by mandarin speaking chinese! However, the dish was successfully created and I had a satisfying CNY lunch!