alcotaz, COOK ‘EM RARE! Don’t matter what kinda recipe you use, if ya over cook ANY waterfowl, may as well eat the soles from from yer boots and enjoy a STRONG liver taste. Another BIG key is don’t let them “dry out”. Any method that will keep moisture in while cookin’ makes all the difference. I have found that “oven roastin’ bags” prevent disasterizing quite well, especially if cooking a goose whole. I usually just fillet the breasts from geese and skillet cook ‘em. Somewhere in these pages is my recipe for “iron skillet goose”. I don’t allow my wife to cook ANY of my kills as she tends to over cook everything. There are multitudes of recipies that can be found online. Check out the ones on the DU site.
Fowlfighter, my season sucked this year too. I did take my gun for a walk for the last two days of the season and only managed to take a couple of honks, a handfull of ducks and a couple of bonus cottontails. The properties I hunt are a little East of the main Pacific flyway, and with the whole Sacramento valley wet, the birds seemed pretty spread out. There were some good hunts earlier in the season, but our normal best hunts usually come later. It just didn’t happen this year for me. So it’s time to wipe down the dekes and clean the guns and calls. Turkey season will be here in about 7 weeks and some of the birds are already struttin’. I’m going thru “withdrawls” but looking foward to the next round, it’ll be here soon, just not soon enough for me.
