Vicki's
Dastardly Duck Chowder
Recipe

This chowder was created especially for the 2003 Camano Island Chili & Chowder Cook-Off, sponsored each year by the Camano Island Chamber of Commerce. As innocent as a cook-off might sound, it turns out that this is a major event on the island, attracting thousands of people who, within the space of three hours, sample as many different chilis and chowders as possible from among dozens of contestants. Bragging rights are on the line, with awards for best chili, best chowder, and best booth decoration. It's a wonderful community-building event. Here's our contribution to the "Chili Chowder Voter's Guide" which was handed out to each participant:

Here is the snack, from Studios that Quack.
Vote for our Chowder, keep dry your Powder!
We have the best Swill, to fill your Bill.

Dastardly Duck Chowder
a la Quacky Studios

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup diced tasso ham
• 1/2 cup diced smoked chicken sausage
• 1/2 cup chopped shallots
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 10 twigs of fresh rosemary
• 1 and 1/2 cups diced duck
• 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
• 1/2 cup dried cherries or cranberries
• 1/2 cup mushrooms
• 2 cups peeled and diced sweet potatoes
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1/4 cup shopped chives
• Salt and pepper to taste

Roast a duck over a bed of fresh rosemary. Put 2 twigs of rosemary in the duck's cavity and set the bird on the remaining 8 twigs of rosemary. Turn oven to 350 F and roast 1/2 an hour per pound of duck. Cool and remove meat from bones, dice and set aside. Toast the pine nuts until golden and set aside.

Heat the olive oil in a soup kettle and sauté the diced tasso ham and sausage with the chopped shallots and garlic. Add the cinnamon, cayenne and pepper to this mixture and stir well. Then add the chicken stock and sweet potatoes, cover and cook until the potatoes are barely tender. Add the cream, mushrooms, cranberries, flour and cook until the soup begins to thicken. Add the cooked duck meat and chives. Season, then fill your bill!

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