Every New Year's Eve we roast a duck. I started the tradition almost a decade ago. It's not from either of our families, but we like duck, so one year I roasted one, and a tradition was started. I'm a bit sick of the whole holiday meal thing by now, so rather than planning out a whole feast like we did for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we went with the duck, and just looked around at what else we had. Zucchini. Shrooms. Milk. Potatoes. Butter. Asparagus. Cheese.

The duck's out of the oven, and done resting. The potatoes au gratin and roasted zucchini are done. Didn't do anything with the mushrooms. We're ready to eat as soon as SJ carves the bird. Not a fancy meal, and certainly not a difficult one to fix, but it should be pretty tasty.

Happy New Year!