Hi Ronf - where (in what state) is your stairway to heaven? I know you were in Wyo this past summer but didn't know for sure if that is where this pic was taken. Everybody else really great pictures! I am always especially partial to water pics but these are all just great. Molly

I only got as far as the foyer :-) There was a short, slow moving line to get through security to get into the rest of the library, and considering that the books would likely have been in Portuguese, there was not much point in going further.

A piece of Eskimo art at the Nixon Library museum in Yorba Linda, CA. Jodi-

For roasting duck, I used this method from thehungrymouse. I used my own hot sauce instead of Sriracha, but otherwise, I pretty much followed those instructions. I ended up with a lot of duck fat (which I wanted), and I used that to make tamales. I substituted duck fat for lard, and it very much improved the flavor of the tamales. One reason I roast duck is to get the fat. It may seem like a lot of work, but it is worth is, especially for holidays. Unfortunately, one duck will not serve that many - maybe four people at most.