Basque Seafood Stew - Your Local Advertiser

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup plus 3 Tbsp. rendered duck fat
• 8 cloves garlic (roughly chopped)
• 3 medium carrots (roughly chopped)
• 2 medium yellow onions (roughly chopped)
• 1 stick celery (roughly chopped)
• Eight 6-oz. skin-on hake or black fillets (heads reserved)
• Two 1 1/2-lb. lobsters (heads and tails removed, claws reserved)
• 5 flat-leaf parsley leaves
• 4 sprigs thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/4 cup armagnac
• 1/2 cup white wine
• 2 plum tomatoes (cored and roughly chopped)
• Kosher salt