Comments on: Christmas Goose

By: Pluck and Feather » The Slowness of Winter

Pluck and Feather » The Slowness of Winter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:01:51 +0000

[...] I also learned that if I want roast goose for Christmas, I need to raise my own. Inspired by the goose preparations I assisted with before Christmas, I decided I wanted to cook a goose. I had seen young geese at [...]

By: esperanza

esperanza — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:51:58 +0000

El: That sounds so good. Goose fat is so coveted that they were even removing from along the intestines. Very detailed and careful work.

Stefaneener: Hmm, maybe WE should have a goose dinner with goose eating friends. My holidays will be spent with my vegetarian and Hindu mother-in-law and husband, so no goose for Christmas…maybe no Christmas…sniff. But all is not lost. I have hopes of goose over winter sometime.

By: stefaneener

stefaneener — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:29:15 +0000

Wow! That’s a great opportunity. I keep offering goose for dinner and get “no” from everyone around me.

Go figure.

So are you having goose or duck?

By: El

El — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:22:42 +0000

We had 5 goslings this year, which are magically now 4 geese in the freezer (having eaten one) and wow are they tasty. I am forever on the quest of local fats (as olives don’t grow so well in MI) and we really hit paydirt with the drippings from our one roast goose! I fried some latkes on Sunday in that creamy white stuff…divine.

FWIW our butcher has to hand-pluck too…