Thanks so much, Kitchen Cheffie, for yesterday’s fabulous recipe on your website. I used it for dinner last night and everyone loved it, including hubby who doesn’t always eat everything I cook. He’s such a fussy eater! I have never tried Chicken Stew with Duck Confit and Cabbage before. It’s a winner.
As I have said many times before in the comments on your blog, we like to eat healthy. So I omitted everything except for the water and cabbage. Besides, I didn’t have any chicken in the house. Your recommended cooking time was far, far too long and I ended up having to puree the cabbage into a soup because it had disintegrated too much. Seven hours at a low temperature is way too much. Also the yellowing outer leaves of the cabbage discoloured the finished product a little.
Another reason for adapting your recipe was that I didn’t know what Duck Comfort was. You need to explain things sometimes for your readers. I presume it’s some sort of “comfort food” so that was another reason for omitting that ingredient because of unhealthy overtones!!!!!!
I likewise wondered why you cooked it in the oven when the stove top would have been sufficient?
All in all, a wonderful recipe. It’s a keeper. One funny thing happened which I shouldn’t really tell but I simply must! The cabbage was home-grown, so when I took it out of the oven after seven hours there had been a good twenty or so earwigs hiding in the cabbage. They were cooked along with the cabbage! Let’s hope there were no slugs. Next time I’ll cut the cabbage up first – maybe into quarters. The earwigs didn’t matter in the long run because after I pureed everything no one noticed them.
Good you got your protein in there.
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I just hope earwigs are not fattening.
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They’re not, I don’t think. Most insects are high in protein. When I asked The Google for earwig nutritional value it had many things come up but very little about earwigs, specifically.
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Those earwig’s pincher things are not for biting apparently. They’re sex organs – so I hope I don’t get pregnant.
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Well, there’s a statement with a lot of unanswered questions…and I ain’t askin’!
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When you’re older I’ll explain.
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Thanks. I can wait.
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Sound like a recipe from Wuhan.
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Cooked perhaps in BAT-ter.
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I seem to recall something about this recipe in “One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich.”
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I must admit to not having read Solzhenitsyn’s Один день Ивана Денисовича. Possibly I’m old enough for him to have borrowed the idea off me.
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That could be.
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