Healthy Recipes
The key to the duck’s crisp skin is letting it dry out overnight in the
refrigerator, so start this the day before you plan to serve it. Quick
to put together and much less messy than roasting a whole duck, the
breasts are a perfect main course for a small dinner party. You and your
guests can gather in the kitchen as you cook them up. This recipe will
serve 4 to 6, depending upon how large the duck breasts are and how big
your guests’ appetites are. Try to find fresh duck breasts because the
frozen variety tend to become rubbery. Muscovy or Hudson Valley ducks
are preferable.An explanation of Hanukkah Gelt, for those who only got one day of
Christmas presents: Gelt is yiddish for money. It is customary on
Hanukkah to give children a little money in the form of coins.
Apparently the tradition started in 17th century Poland and the coins
were intended for the children’s school teachers. I remember going as a
young child to a family friend’s home on Hanukkah and a grandfather
looking kind of man that was there pulled a silver dollar out of his
pocket for every kid at the party, year after year. This moment of
getting the silver dollar, from a man who seemed to gift them purely for
the joy of watching children’s faces light up, is one of my indelibly
printed memories of Hanukkah.Nowadays, usually when we speak of Hanukkah Gelt, we are referring to
those gold wrapped chocolate coins that everyone loves this time of
year. These cookies are shaped like those chocolates, except the gold is
on the inside form of extra virgin olive oil.
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