Duck & Dumplings College Style

[Glenn W]

BTH284's Dove & Dumpling recipe sounds great.
The following is the only way my daughter will eat ducks (without a snarl on her face), so I make it a few times every winter.
It is called college style because a roommate & I came up with it our freshman year-- we were seriously broke by duck season and the ingrediants were all we had in the house that day. My subsequent roommates throughout school all loved it (even the non hunters):

Boil about 3 full chicken breasts worth of duck meat with onions and celery, add garlic and oregino to taste (right much). cook till done
Strain deboned/skinnned meat, onions, and celery into a separate sauce pan. Add a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom soup, and 1/2 can of the stock. Cover and simmer a while, add more garlic, some salt and pepper (lots of pepper).
Make dumplings from Bisquick or Jiffy. Simmer dumplings till ready in the
stock.
Serve mixture over dumpling with each person adding a liberal amout of Tabasco sauce (not Texas Pete or other such garbage--- Tabasco)-- my daughter skips this crucial ingrediant though
Serve with chilled Shlitz, PBR, or for the authentic college meal-- Old Milwaukee
It really is good and will stick to your ribs on a cold evening
Note: this is the only way I'll eat a mud hen.

[seabass]

BTH284's Dove & Dumpling recipe sounds great.
The following is the only way my daughter will eat ducks (without a snarl on her face), so I make it a few times every winter.
It is called college style because a roommate & I came up with it our freshman year-- we were seriously broke by duck season and the ingrediants were all we had in the house that day. My subsequent roommates throughout school all loved it (even the non hunters):

Boil about 3 full chicken breasts worth of duck meat with onions and celery, add garlic and oregino to taste (right much). cook till done
Strain deboned/skinnned meat, onions, and celery into a separate sauce pan. Add a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom soup, and 1/2 can of the stock. Cover and simmer a while, add more garlic, some salt and pepper (lots of pepper).
Make dumplings from Bisquick or Jiffy. Simmer dumplings till ready in the
stock.
Serve mixture over dumpling with each person adding a liberal amout of Tabasco sauce (not Texas Pete or other such garbage--- Tabasco)-- my daughter skips this crucial ingrediant though
Serve with chilled Shlitz, PBR, or for the authentic college meal-- Old Milwaukee
It really is good and will stick to your ribs on a cold evening
Note: this is the only way I'll eat a mud hen.

I remember those days well . I used to take some French onion soup in a crock pot and then throw in the duck , goose or whatever in there and let her go all day . We would add the frozen Annie's Dumplings , a can of peas or whatever we had laying around . Kept quite a few doorm mates from going hungry .

[BTH284]

Tried this last week.Very good.

Mr Yoshita's Teriyaki ginger if you can find it. Thanks JMS for the secret locale


Otherwise any good yaki ginger marinate will do.

I used wood duck breast split in half lengthways marinate in the yaki/ginger sauce for about a day.

Wrap the breast and a slice of jack cheese and jalepeno with bacon

Grill till med to med rare depending on meat thickness. Trick is to keep it light pink in the middle.

4 breasts was a plenty for a good meal with a side of rice consume' and a salad.

AWESOME!!!

[JMS-ILM]

-- we were seriously broke by duck season and the ingrediants were all we had in the house that day.

ive got a buddy that, under similar circumstances, devised a way to cook squirrles on a dormitory popcorn popper. try and get your daughter to eat that!

i was poking around in my freezer this weekend....im going to try your recipe with some mystery duck breasts i rooted up. thanks.