{"id":15205,"date":"2018-01-05T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2018-01-05T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:07:25","slug":"duck-sausage-toasted-couscous-tomato-spices-sultanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=15205","title":{"rendered":"duck sausage, toasted couscous, tomato, spices, sultanas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had picked up the duck sausage at Hudson River Duck Farm in the Union Square Greenmarket on Wednesday, along with what has become\u00a0a regular choice,\u00a0one fresh duck breast. Both were\u00a0part of what I had thought of as a catalog of the makings of good sturdy meals for the duration of our current cold snap. We had enjoyed another the\u00a0breast fairly recently, so on Thursday\u00a0I decided it was the sausage\u00a0that I’d prepare for dinner.<\/p>\n

I also had a supply of roots, and other vegetable fare on the heavy side. The season (January), and this year’s unusually severe arctic weather in particular, meant that local green vegetables were going to be difficult to include in these meals, although I do have one or 2 possibilities. T hen I remembered\u00a0the jar of couscous that had been sitting on the top shelf of a kitchen cupboard, and\u00a0the significant participation by green vegetables suddenly seemed less critical:\u00a0A\u00a0garnish of fresh parsley might actually\u00a0be enough this time.<\/p>\n

Having decided that the sausage and the\u00a0couscous would make a great pair, I had to figure out how I was going to\u00a0cook\u00a0these tiny pasta beads, essentially what couscous is. I looked into my own\u00a0small\u00a0file and spent some time on line, but I hadn’t quite resolved anything before the deadline that I had assigned myself to begin cooking had arrived.<\/p>\n

I ended up winging it, and spending more time stirring the couscous than I had expected, while regularly adding more water.\u00a0 But it\u00a0was delicious in the end.\u00a0I can’t give a fully useful account of\u00a0my process this time as I would like, but I promise something better when I next\u00a0undertake cooking this wonderful side dish.<\/p>\n