6 hours ago, Duvel said:
Absolutely … would be great to get an instant Cantonese roast duck like that just to pull out of the freezer !
Fortunately for me, I can get one by simply walking down the block. Wu's has 2 or 3 styles of roast duck; there's always a honey basted one, a classic Cantonese one, and usually a pressed duck as well.
I often bastardize Lebovitz's recipe for a faux confit, and simply season the legs with salt, pepper, and herbes de Provence, roast them for 2 to 2.5 hours, and they're very good. Of course braising them uncovered does yield a different texture I think, but it also leads to another question: is uncovered cooking really a braise?