Duck Day 2025 Recap, Recipes, and Picspam

Whew. Another Duck Day done and dusted. I just took my wedding ring off and discovered a leaf of thyme has been hiding under it since some time during the cooking yesterday…?

If you’re new here, “Duck Day” is what corwin calls Thanksgiving, because he always liked duck better than turkey, and when he got to college in the 1980s the first Thanksgiving he cooked himself (with his friend Michael) they made duck. (Hi, Scliff!)

Every year we cook up a theme for this multi-course, plated dinner and we spend the better part of a week prepping, testing, and sourcing. This year’s theme was “Recess” — as in that break in the school day when we were kids when they made us go play outside. Because man, we could all use a break right now.

The menu was arranged like a hopscotch board and the courses were:

• Hopscotch
• Dodge Ball
• Marco Polo
• Hawaiian Punch
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Double Dutch

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Mirrored from Cecilia Tan.