Vietnamese Duck Pho

With the stock we made yesterday with the duck carcass, we made Vietnamese soup tonight. We added fish sauce, ginger, lemongrass, red cabbage, red peppers, broccoli, bean sprouts, one small minced chili pepper and some of the leftover duck meat. We garnished it with fresh mint, basil and coriander. These soups usually have vermicelli but we avoid eating rice, pasta, bread or potatoes (except for sweet potatoes) for dinner.

There was still stock left so we froze it in an ice cube tray. This way we will be able to take a few cubes when we want to make individual soups for our weekday lunches. All we will need to do is add vegetables. We will also make Vietnamese spring rolls with the leftover duck. There are so many things you can make with just 1 duck or chicken.

We Are No Longer Afraid To Make Duck

We decided to cook a duck today. We had never made it before because we thought it was difficult to make...wrong. We bought a whole duck and cooked it in a roasting pan just like a chicken. We first had to buy a roasting pan. Although our kitchen is very well equipped, a roasting pan was one of the few things we didn't have.