Yes they are apricots from large can, in our family we always have fruit like that as for sider with all main meals. Fruit goes the best when having poultry with rice however. In my opinion duck is nice with potatoes cooked in skin, potato salad (like on the photo) or steamed dumplings, and some...
For some reason roasting turkey produces a lot more liquid when compared with chicken or other poultry, even with the total weight taken into account. Wood fired ovens are not too dificult to build if you would like to try the cooking; few pictures of ovens built by first time builders or...
Basically I just dip ducks in large bucket into icy salty water over night. Next day I take the bird out and place it in larger old roaster pot right onto apples cut into quartes, 5 apples is plenty. Little bit of pepper on the skin, 3 cups of water under and there they go into the oven for slow...
I just planted up to 20 seeds from a good large pumpking type into few smaller plastic containers that will be taken out into garden later in the spring.