what do need to know about goose for xmas??

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thinking of it as FIL would like it

1. is it luck ducj - very fatty to cook
2. what does it taste like?
3. I do the accompaniments the same? as for xmas dinner?

thanks

It's bloody lovely! Am

Use the fat to do the spuds (lush)
It is fatty

Yes, very fatty and very very delicious. It is like a cross between duck and pheasant.

You need to put it on a poultry rack on top of a very very big, deep roasting tin to catch all the fat - or else you have to bail out the fat halfway through. You can't believe how much fat you get off. Save it for the odd goosefat recipe in the new year.

The traditional stuffing for goose is apple, but I have always done cut up oranges and lemons (panicked improvising one Xmas day when I realised I hadn't considered what to stuff it with and had no apples) - it is fantastic. You don't want a sausage type stuffing as it's fatty enough already.

You get the most fantastic stock off it for soup afterwards - need nothing more than to boil an onion in it and you've got soup.

• we're at MIL's this year.

I need to know too. We are having fewer people than usual, just 4 adults + little ones, so have decided it is our one and only chance to have duck for Christmas. Have never cooked it before though, well only breasts.

maybe a daft question but duck and goose are differnt birds?

yes
duck easy to cook but small.
goose delicious and bigger but scary spitty thing to cook.

We had one years ago and have plucked (get the pun!) up the courage to try it again

I did goose a few years ago. It cost alot, took hours longer to cook than recommended then DH did not like it

I found the smell really hard to deal with, I wasn't hungry by the time I had finished cooking

We will be splashing out on a large freerange Chicken again this year. A turkey is too big for us so we did chicken last year and it was great.

duck and goose much greasier and fattier than turkey so easier to stop it becoming too dry, but darker meat a bit heavy for some people, especially kids...

Hiya, we're having the family over this year, can anyone give me any idea of how big a goose I need for nine?

Thanks