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Dec 2020
11:24am, 2 Dec 2020
13,476 posts
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MarktheMeraldAngelsRun
I'd still like to try goose.... although I hear it's over-rated unless cooked just so.
We were thinking about a fresh turkey from the local Butcher this year, but there's been an outbreak of bird 'flu in a farm fairly locally. I think we'll settle for a frozen one from Lidl! (Never had a bad frozen turkey yet, even cheap ones are okay.)
There will be 6 for dinner on Christmas day, and four the next (or maybe 4 for sandwiches on a walk on the hills!).
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Dec 2020
5:27pm, 2 Dec 2020
18,778 posts
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Rosehip
We'll have a goose, we always have a goose - not difficult to cook, but usually need a bit longer than any recipe says and a good long rest.
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Dec 2020
5:43pm, 2 Dec 2020
6,824 posts
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Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Rosehip, what flavour does goose have? Can you compare it to duck, chicken or any other bird?
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Dec 2020
8:30pm, 2 Dec 2020
1,738 posts
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Grast_girl
Good resting time is probably the one thing that the chefs do get right.
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Dec 2020
8:36pm, 2 Dec 2020
18,781 posts
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Rosehip
More duck than anything - but richer and stronger.
Shrinking the skin the night before by pouring over boiling water and then letting it dry (and it needs to be dry before going in the oven) is a trick I learnt from grandma - similar to what the Chinese do with Peking duck - I think
(Grandma and nana both raised geese for Christmas, so we only had turkey as an extra to bulk out the goose when there were 20+ of us for Christmas lunch)
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Dec 2020
8:45pm, 2 Dec 2020
13,861 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
No turkey for me this year! We're having a post 5 course reheat at home restaurant meal so I thought I'd be more adventurous - duck to start and lamb for the main course. The main advantage of getting something prepared is that OH is veggie and I didn't really want to have to cook 2 different things when there are only 2 of us anyway.
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Dec 2020
2:27pm, 3 Dec 2020
29,076 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
indeed, I have been spared the veggie, vegan, allergy minefield this year.....there were 4 different umm palates, shall we say.
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Dec 2020
2:30pm, 3 Dec 2020
43,028 posts
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LindsD
We think we have dodged the vegan bullet also. Think our resident vegan will only require breakfast.
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Dec 2020
2:46pm, 3 Dec 2020
50,194 posts
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Velocirappingpaper
We made an entire vegan Christmas dinner one year. Granny claimed afterwards that she hadn't liked to say anything at the time but it had given her bellyache that lasted till April.
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Dec 2020
2:53pm, 3 Dec 2020
43,031 posts
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LindsD
 My Granny used to say that herbs 'blew her up'.
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