Duck eggs

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Just picked up a dozen super fresh duck eggs this morning. What’s your favorite use?

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I really hope Ken doesn’t answer your question.

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You might try duck egg yolk raviolo with garlic chips, green garlic pesto, and onion. Pretty tasty! But you knew that.

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Nice!

You want a couple by the way. I certainly can’t eat all 12.

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Lampreia does this cool duck egg concoction where he add some truffle preserve tot eh duck egg and then wraps the whole thing in saran for a quick poach. It ends up looking like a baseball that he serves on top of a parmesan crisp usually with some fonduta sauce (Fontina based). It rocks. You break into the thing and that rich yolk and truffle, oh man!

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Thank you!
The farm down the hill has them, just cooked the first one wow.

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Hey, I just eat them!

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My boy can eat fitty eggs.

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Dammit!!! I -wish- I could find duck eggs. The only ones I can find are salt cured duck eggs in the Chinese grocery stores. For YEARS I have wanted to make Kylie Kwong’s salad of foie gras, lobster, and soft boiled duck eggs. There is a richness to duck eggs (SO I HEAR) that makes this salad work – and does not happen with chicken or quail eggs. Grrr. Wonder if you could mail me a couple.

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Frank, duck eggs shouldn’t be that hard to find in Jersey. There must be farmers markets that sell them. Maybe south of you?

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Thanks Ken, you are right, I need to be more creative. I read around a little and it looks like they can be found in Manhattan at the Union Square Market, big Chinese groceries, and Whole Foods. I’ll keep trying.

Update – they are at Whole Foods in Princeton, so I think I’m in business.

Here’s that salad from Kylie Kwong’s own website

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Thanks for the tip!

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My wife just picked up two duck eggs from the Farmers Market - they are HUGE!

I went right to this thread to see what to do with them , but it looks like the best, easy, method is just to softboil them or poach them and enjoy as a particularly rich egg!

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Frank,
Try some of the honor system roadside stands west of Princeton in Hunterdon County. SOme will have duck eggs, bring $2 and an empty egg container.

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Hi Ed,

Whole Foods swore to me over the phone that they had duck eggs in stock. So I asked my wife to go there (she works in Princeton) and – nada!!

So your suggestion is interesting. Got a route number or something? I have heard there are egg stands in South Brunswick or somewhere even closer but I haven’t gotten an exact bead on them.

We were going to serve the Kylie Kwong salad to guests on Saturday, and we have had to postpone that.

BTW Todd, imagine a “particularly rich egg” with foie gras and lobster meat on the same plate. Beautifully wretched excess, and what fine cooking is all about!!

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You could visit the Dvoor Farmers market in Flemington at the intersection of RTt 12 and 523 just wet of the outlets. I hear they have eggs.

Small roads all over Delaware Township, East Amwell, West Amwell will have coolers in front of the farm and a tin to put the money. I am sorry that I can’t recall the names of the roads but they are everywhere in the country. If I remember this weekend, I’ll note the names of the streets if I go get some.

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Always, always, tell the grocery store to hold them back. Clerk runs to the floor, yep, we got them, which could mean 1 pkg. and then someone shows up an hour later and they’re gone. Happens all too often. Sucks, I know.

Just picked up 7 at our Farmer’s Market. They sell by the six pk. but they had an extra egg. Ducks are “on strike” according to the farmer and they had an extra so I got it…now I gotta find a use.

JD

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just don’t go balut on us . . .
alan

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Great for baking, custard, pastas. Problem is converting them from chicken egg recipes. The whites are more viscous and the size is much larger, generally, than chicken.

Scrambled and poached are pretty good, too. They can have glossier and tougher whites than chicken eggs, which make hard boiled or fried an acquired taste/texture for some.