I did make a little chicken noodle soup from scratch (including the chicken stock). Turns out Cook's Illustrated has a nice little recipe that uses a whole chicken to make the stock and the soup (I'll have to find the recipe).
After the soup (which needed a little better presentation), I did the duck thing. Pretty easy when you throw it in the oven - sauce was OK, but the duck was almost perfect (I'm getting pretty good at that).