Trout Tacos with Braised Chard

Excellent tacos tonight, from unassuming ingredients really. Trout fillets pan roasted on high heat to crisp the skin.
Niman Ranch bacon cut into strips and browned. Red onion sliced and added, then garlic, fire roasted tomatoes and chile chipotle, then 1/4″ sliced chard stems, and finally leaves. Perfect side, quite rich in a good way. Fire [...]

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Duck Pasilla Tacos

Yesterday, sort of mexican Duck a l’Orange: tacos of mock duck confit, pasilla, orange, oregano. Nice but i should have added less sauce – the meat was drown. Mock confit was a good idea though – three duck legs were slowly cooked stove skin down to start the fat rendering process then flipped, unpeeled garlic [...]

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