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[slemslempike]

I bought a tin of duck meat. It looks a bit like a small tin of tuna, or maybe cat food (it's definitely not cat food)? Like the smallest tin of baked beans you get. It says steamed duck for ingredients with some garlic and onion. I'm assuming that the food labelling regulations here aren't as strict so the long list of preservatives are just not mentioned rather than not present.

I have never cooked with tinned meat before (I'm not sure if I've eaten it before) and find myself a little nervous. Do I just pop it in a pan and fry it? Could it be microwaves? Or is it better to add into something else as an ingredient rather than have on its own? If so, what?

I have been doing a bit more actual cooking too. Very simple things like pasta with microwave-roasted tomatoes and garlic, with myanmar fried beans on top. And I bought some non-fried beans in Mrauk U and cooked them into a puree (that was an accident, i only meant to cook them normally) in the rice cooker with some quince wine (cheap in this wonderful corner shop Jess found with loads of unexpected items) and they were delicious spread on bread. But last night and tonight my dinner has mostly been BBQ flavour Pringles or Pringles knockoffs.

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[girlofprey]

The only tinned meat I ever cooked with was corned beef, which I mixed with potatoes and maybe onions (at the suggestion of my student recipe book) to make corned beef hash. Maybe you could make duck hash?

[slemslempike]

I could do that! potatoes and onions I definitely like, and would maybe mitigate the duck if it wasn't great.

[katlinel]

I was about to suggest doing something similar as the only tinned meat I've cooked with is corned beef. I also add carrots to corned beef hash, and Worcestershire sauce, and I expect there's something similar to the latter that you could find out there.

[yiskah]

"this wonderful corner shop Jess found"

THANK YOU.

Could you do a sort of Myanmar version of cassoulet, with tinned duck and beans and quince wine? It could be utterly horrific, but it also could be GLORIOUS.

[yiskah]

I have just checked and it turns out that apparently cassoulet doesn't involve duck (? - I was SURE it did) so ignore me. Though a duck and bean and pork stew might be delicious anyway!

[slemslempike]

It might well! I could try that!