11/27/2025
Happy Thanksgiving from me and the team at The Captain's Room and Captain Demo's Red Hot Pepper Sauce.
So much to be grateful for. So much to look forward to.
Spend time with your family every day. Not just on the holidays.
PICTURED: The Demirdjian Family Duck 🦆. Slit and salted skin. Fine and coarse gring pepper. Olive oil. Aromatics inside and underneath as a bed. Celery, fennel, white onions with the skin, garlic, 2 lemons. Thyme Rosemary Parsley bouquet garni. Let the duck try out in fridge salted and uncovered.
On cooking day. Place aromatics inside and made a bed in a roasting pan. Preheat over to 475. Let duck come to temperature for 2-3 hours before putting in oven. Never put cold duck into a hot oven. Blast for 10-15 minutes convection and turn down to 325. Roast to desired internal temp. 135 for me…remove. It will go up 10-15 degrees outside the oven amd let rest for 20 minutes. No juice will run and the breast will be perfectly cooked and skin crisp. Slice and enjoy. Dark meat areas may be put back in oven for 7-10 minutes flipped to crisp skin and reach desired temp of 145.
Wine was a 2017 Mont-Redon Chateauneuf du pop.
Warm up was lamb loin chops slathered in really good Dijon and dipped in copious amounts of fresh chive.
John Paul Demirdjian
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