Lets leave it to the Professionals..

What an enormous FLOP! That is the only way I dare describe my pathetic attempt at making Peking Duck. It was so bad, Stefan refused to eat it and I refuse to publish any of the horrific photos. Jip, it was so horrid, it ended up very nicely in the bin. There is no one to blame but me. I was too lazy or to tired or maybe a combination of both to carefully read through the whole recipe beforehand and ended up running out of time. I did not let it stand long enough, cook long enough or did anything else the recipe told me enough to make it vaguely taste like anything yo may find in the shop windows in China town. Nope, I have decided, this mother does not have the time to reattempt this recipe, she will leave it to the professionals.

I should have known I was in trouble when I looked up how to de-feather a duck on Google. It involved paraffin and wax and something else. Not any substances this city girl just has lying around in her cupboard. This meant that I spent hours trying to get rid of the feathers on the bird..with tweezers! I think that already put me off. I am all for this farmers market thing, but next time I am going to plead with the dear man to please clean his duck properly, as I do not feel like spending another second of my life with a dead bird and a pair of tweezers.

I had to somehow salvage the evening, I mean, it was ruined. No food, unhappy husband and unhappy mommy. So all I could think of was to make something with noodles as that was kind of on the menu before and I had bought some stuff in case the duck did not work. I guess I had a feeling. Anyway, I Pad Thai-ed it. It was OK, but not at all what I felt like eating. What a miserable end to a very tiring week. This week I will NOT make the mistake again. I feel that I should take on something simpler. Something that requires WAY less time and WAY less effort. I've forgotten what sleep deprivation feels like. Ella has two teeth to show for it and us, a miserable dinner. I am trying desperately not to think of the fact that she still has a whole mouth full of teeth to go. I will make up for it this week, I promise Stefan, I promise! Otherwise, we will have to call in the professionals... of the Chinese Take Away kind!