Christmas dinner ?

[Joeninety]

Turkey or Goose for a change ?

It depends on what the people who will be eating it want? If I wanted a change, I'd go for Duck.

Not goose. There’s hardly any meat on a goose, although what there is is very tasty.
We cooked a goose for Christmas once - we had to deal with bucketloads of fat and the house smelled of goose fat for weeks afterwards. It barely fed four adults.

Goose is really greasy.

Goose definitely my favourite - but a pricey treat (our 5kg goose will be c.£100). Also depends a bit on the size of your party, Geese seem to have more weight in bones and less meat for a given weight - so you may need to size up if you are a larger family.

Much tastier than turkey - and a dark breast meat - richer and much denser than most poultry.

Save the fat you render from the goose in ice-cube trays in the freezer and it makes great roast potatoes for the rest of the year. We even strip the carcass and render all the fat from the skin in a small cast iron pot in the AGA, adding to the bounty.

Goose is greasy and not much meat on it. We were disappointed

DH is from a country that has Goose at Xmas and we really enjoy it
Its not easy to cook though, takes some time and you need to pour the fat off a couple of times. Worth it though

I think you have to think of goose as more like a game bird rather than as a commercial poultry (chicken/turkey) alternative.

Also to make the price:value equation stack up, you need to value (and save/use) the goose fat.

The first time we roasted goose, we did question it, but having got our heads round it, we wouldn’t go back to chicken or turkey (unless economics meant we had to).

Agreed. Also never let your dog get hold of the goose skin if you don't want dog dihoreah on your stepsons toys

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vegan-pie

veg pie for us

Why would someone asking about which meat to have want a vegan pie recipe?

That looks amazing.

I wouldn't recommend goose.

It was something I always wanted to try but one year when I floated the suggestion MIL, who always came to us at Christmas, said she wasn't keen. Anyway, a few years back, with MIL now sadly departed, I proposed goose again and DH was keen on the idea.

We bought this goose from the same place we normally got the turkey and it was really quite expensive, slightly more than the free range turkey would have been. I researched cooking methods and went for it. I didn't mind all the fat, we saved it to use for roast potatoes. The meat was OK, not as nice as turkey IMO.

The real downer was the amount of leftovers there wasn't! I think I managed one leftover meal and that was it. With a turkey we get Christmas dinner itself, plenty for sandwiches, a good turkey broth and enough cooked meat that we bag up and freeze to do at least three more meal for us.

Turkey, just cook it right and it's delicious.

Goose is ok, and yes the fat you get off is amazing for a few meals after, but you don’t get so much meat and it’s more dense I find the children aren’t so keen. As pp have said - no leftovers so works out very expensive for a meal that’s oookkaaay.

Neither, I'd go for beef any day

This ^^^

Smug as a bug in a rug I'll be having a tapas feast at 5pm Christmas Day, in my favourite Tapas Bar in Malaga. About 30 choices of tapas or raciones. No party hats or any of that crap either, just great food and a Classical Spanish Guitar playing in the background. No turkey, goose or duck on the menu so far....😊

And no, I don't miss Christmas in Blighty at all. I'll be back in January to sample the wind, rain and cold. That's enough thanks.