Posted on 11/26/2008 10:41:30 AM PST by NYer
Happy Thanksgiving, FRiends.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!
Thanks! :)
And to all you and yours.
Just finished up the roast goose with salt pork and mashed potato stuffing and all the kids are tucked into their beds.
Thanksgiving is good this year.
Never had roast goose, although it would be a good way to get rid of those Canadian geese. I hear it’s like duck, only with more grease, unless cooked properly.
***Never had roast goose, although it would be a good way to get rid of those Canadian geese. I hear it’s like duck, only with more grease, unless cooked properly.***
It’s a larger bird, slightly coarser flesh with essentially no white meat. The fat proportionally is about the same as duck. We buy only domesticated birds (a couple of times a year, as we do lamb) because it is a stonger taste than the usual poultry and it’s a treat rather than a mainstay.
It is ridiculously easy to roast, as is lamb, but so many people are afraid to even try it. The fat makes a tremendous gravy. We are boiling the bones down for stock overnight. Better taste than chicken stock.
Thanks, I love lamb too, but it is usually pretty pricy.
***Thanks, I love lamb too, but it is usually pretty pricy.***
There is a food chain here in Iowa called Fareway that has a meat counter that is second to none anywhere I’ve been. The beef is very good, the pork better than that, but the lamb (fresh Iowa lamb) is better than I’ve had anywhere in the world - Canada, England, Germany, Spain, Mexico - and their sale prices for leg have run to the three bucks a pound range.
Was unsure about moving to the frontier, but there are some things that are worth it. Moving west of Illinois was another one.
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