duck breakfast

Something frozen in a previous age, the Cretaceous probably, I thought it might be a dinosaur egg but it turned out to be a potato. Now I remember, they were boiled in salt water and frozen to avoid them growing branches as they do when neglected, which is why they are rarely picked up by the sack, even a small 5LB sack tends to go old. 

The idea today is to fry potato in duck fat reserved from Christmas to see if duck fat is all that it is cracked up to be, and to learn for myself what those French-trained cooks are on about. 

The plate includes duck itself, also reserved from Christmas. 

A bit about photography, in case you are interested. And who would't be? The top image is a stacked focus, but one done in Photoshop by hand, rather than Photoshop's own stacked focus process. The reason for that is because mine is better. No brag, just fact. The thing is, Photoshop has no judgement at all. It hasn't a clue which images it can eliminate entirely so it dutifully attempts to take something from everything. It also couldn't match a curved plate if its life depended on it. And further, it has no way to understand the content it's manipulating. By contrast, I can use a feathered selection to pick out the pieces I want, and I can use something within Photoshop that Photoshop itself cannot use for its own stacked focuses, and that is the warp distortion. Photoshop's stack is limited to the stack as it is, whereas I can stretch and distort segments to my hearts content in order to force the pieces to fit. I can also do this much faster than Photoshop can do it even though Photoshop is processing its ass off, performing mathematic gymnastics of which I am hardly capable. Here is Photoshop's stacked focus of that same image. The dimension has not been reduced, so it is full-size. You can clicky to big, if you want. Eh, looking back at it, I guess it's not so bad. It's just that it took f-o-r-e-v-e-r, and the smudged rim at the bottom put me off.