Trying New Recipes

We got a set of great cookbooks for our wedding - Williams-Sonoma Foods of the World. There are 8 cities: New Orleans, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Rome, London, Florence and Barcelona. The books are great because they are also little travel guides. The first 20 pages or so are dedicated to a culinary description of the region, typical foods, restaurants to try, etc. The books are great and we've just started looking at them. So, we decided to start trying recipes out of each book.

In honor of Mardi Gras, we tried a recipe from the New Orleans book last Sunday. It was okay, nothing overly exciting.

This week we tried a recipe from the Paris Book...YUMMY.

The recipe was for Duck Breast with Figs and Port. It was a bit difficult to make (having to heat things, keep them warm, do the sauce, etc.) but ended up only taking about 30 minutes once we started cooking. Prep was another 20 minutes or so. We served it with green beans and mushrooms. We also had a great Cote-du-Rhone wine, YUMMY.

If you are interested in the recipe, let me know....