Things I Eat: Nut Cheese

Nut cheese. The vegan rage. Well, I know you can make nut cheese but I have been cheese-less for so long, I don't even know. 

Sure, sometimes I miss a nice bree and glass of wine, but, I can't have either so. Whatever. Sometimes, when accepting a lifestyle, you have to accept not accepting certain things. Right? That sounds about right. 

Anyhow, I was bouncing around Whole Foods hoping not to run into anyone, and behold, there was this nut cheese. Most "vegan cheese" is soy/tofu so I can't have it. You know, when God hates you, it's never half-assed. 

Anyhow, I picked up this cheese from TreeLine. It's really expensive, like $8 for this Classic Aged Nut Cheese.

And, yes, I bought and took pictures of this a long time ago, ignore the expiration date.

I think it is actually a pretty good cheese if you wanted to serve it to a vegan or use it in a recipe. It tastes like I remember cheese tasting. I think if you put this on a cheese board with people who could and wanted to consume dairy, this would be a hit. It was tangy and good.

I mean. . .you know. If you wanted to.

I did also go back and get their soft cheese which I use like a dip for tater chips. It was also tangy and good.

Nothing against this cheese, I just don't think I miss cheese so much that I will be buying a lot of this. I just don't miss cheese at the "$8 worth" level. If I did one day have a dinner party, I'm pretty sure I. . .uhh. . .HAHAHAHAHA. . .yeah. 

Nut cheese. It's good if you really need to have cheese made with nuts. 

Things I Eat: Roast Five Spice Duck

I did follow the roasting recipe from The Hungry Mouse because I never actually roasted a duck before. I have roasted other things: chicken, beef, my husband, select friends, vegetables, etc.

You can totally check out the Hungry Mouse for the details there, the method is simple:

1. Score the skin, cut off excess fat, and poke it all over
2. Salt and truss
3. Roast at 300 degrees for 1 hour, breast-side up
4. Poke, flip, roast for 1 hour, breast-side down
5. Poke, flip, roast for 1 hour, breast-side up
6. Poke, flip, roast for 1 hour, breast side down
7. Poke, flip, blast at 400 degrees for 10 minutes, breast-side up
8. Brush with glaze
9. Finish at 400 degrees for 5-7 minutes
10. Rest, carve and serve

So, I scored the skin with my dull knives and inability. I also didn't know how to remove the quills still in the skin. I ended up getting some tweezers and spent a good deal of time finding all those little pricks. And also wondering if I could become a vegan with all my issues. I do love duck and I got this duck from a place where the creatures are treated humanely.

This is the D'Artagnan Rohan Duck, Whole and D'Artagnan seems to have a good philosophy on animal care. So. I did my best for this fest.

Anyhow, I pretty much massacred the bird scoring it. Whatever. And I didn't have bakers twine to truss it right. Whatever. OVEN!

I made my own glaze of 1/4 cup honey, a lot of McCormick Chinese 5 Spice Blend - because McCormick never lets me down.

Fast forward, boom!

I am not a great carver - which is fine because it all fell apart into deliciousness! The skin was crispy, the insides were delicious and the glaze was great!

Nice. Duck. 

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Pantless Wednesday: Sexy

I got this dress years ago at TJ Maxx and I don't know anything about it. It is a stretchy pencil skirt with a red-pleated red sleeveless thing attached to the top.

I wore this for a night out with the ladies. It's super comfortable and I think it's pretty sexy. I actually forgot how much I liked this dress. . .

So, there you go. A dress I don't wear at work.

Nailed to the Couch: Revlon Graffiti

While wandering through Wegmans unable to eat food, I decided to pick up a bottle of this Revlon Graffiti. I don’t know if it is still being sold, I couldn’t find it on the Revlon website, but, maybe it’s at Target still? It doesn't seem to be on the Revlon site and most places had other top coat colors but not this one. 

I thought it would look like that on my nails and I was like YES. . and then I found out it was a top coat with confetti in it.

I decided to pair it with my Essie Blanc and. . .YES! A nice splatter effect people thought I had someone else do.