Duck for dinner

[CharleyH]

Now I know we can cook a pretty good duck for dinner, but can we haute cuisine a . . . . gosling? Recipes anyone?

 

[pop_54]

Hmm Charley, I took your advice, 'Duck for Dinner' I now have a nasty bruise on my chin from the table top.

 

[CharleyH]

LOL -pops your wife is BRUTAL! Lets cook Goslings

 

[Guest]

first google item:

Gosling With Baked Pears Recipe

1 gosling

8 pears, peeled, cored with a corer

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup water

seasonings to taste

Put gosling in a roasting pan with the butter and seasonings. Roast in moderate oven for 35 minutes. Add the pears and water. Finish cooking together, about 20 minutes. Then serve.

 

[minsue]

Et tu Dita?

 

[Guest]

sorry, Minge

11. HOW DO YOU COOK A GOSLING?

Elias Halldor Agustsson (the man with the absolutely wonderful hostname of the.bofh.is) reports that _Les Diners de Gala_ by Salvador Dali (ca. 1970) gave a recipe similar to the following:

• Capture a gosling and pluck off all the plumage.
• Light a circle of small fires and put the gosling in the middle.
• The gosling will try to run away, but as it tries to break the
  circle of fire, it will in effect broil itself alive.
• In order to keep it alive long enough for it to broil itself thoroughly, one must cool its head with a sponge dipped in cold water.

url

 

[CharleyH]

O la la, gosling francais . . . .

And P: ritualistic gosling at that

 

[CharleyH]

Yahoo turned up this Austrian dish:

Gosling Stew

In Oberhausen, on a time,
I fared as might a king;
And now I fell the muse sublime
Inspire me to embalm in rhyme
That succulent and sapid thing
Behight of gentile and of Jew
A gosling stew!

The good Herr Schmitz brought out his best, --
Soup, cutlet, salad, roast, --
And I partook with hearty zest,
And fervently anon I blessed
That generous and benignant host,
When suddenly dawned on my view
A gosling stew!

I sniffed it coming on apace,
And as its odors filled
The curious little dining-place,
I felt a glow suffuse my face,
I felt my very marrow thrilled
With rapture altogether new, --
'T was gosling stew!

These callow birds had never played
In yonder village pond;
Had never through the gateway strayed,
And plaintive spissant music made
Upon the grassy green beyond:
Cooped up, they simply ate and grew
For gosling stew!

My doctor said I must n't eat
High food and seasoned game;
But surely gosling is a meat
With tender nourishment replete.
Leastwise I gayly ate this same;
I braved dyspepsy -- would n't you
For gosling stew?

I've feasted where the possums grow,
Roast turkey have I tried,
The joys of canvasbacks I know,
And frequently I've eaten crow
In bleak and chill Novembertide;
I barter all that native crew
For gosling stew!

And when from Rhineland I adjourn
To seek my Yankee shore,
Back shall my memory often turn,
And fiercely shall my palate burn
For sweets I'll taste, alas! no more, --
Oh, that mein kleine frau could brew
A gosling stew!

Vain are these keen regrets of mine,
And vain the song I sing;
Yet would I quaff a syoup of wine
To Oberhausen auf der Rhine,
Where fared I like a very king:
And here's a last and fond adieu
To gosling stew!


OK - not a great poem but hey, the only one eating goslings

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

'Dita, The gosling keeps jumping out of the pot. What am I doing wrong?

Pierce, try singing to it in German, basso profundo should do it.

Perdita

 

[Quint]

Olim lacus colueram,
olim pulcher extiteram,
dum cignus ego fueram.

Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

Girat, regirat garcifer;
me rogus urit fortiter;
propinat me nunc dapifer,

Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

Nunc in scutella iaceo,
et volitare nequeo
dentes frendentes video:

Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

 

[Xelebes]

Pierce, try singing to it in German, basso profundo should do it.

Perdita

*croons*

Mein Dritte-.... damn I forget the rest of the song all ready!

Bah...

EIN ZWEI DREI..... sechs sieben.... EIN ZWEI DREI!

Gotta love classic eurotech.

 

[Guest]

 

[Somme]

http://www.solidalliance.com/products/img/iduck_y.jpg

Ducks now come in 128 Megabytes.

ummmmm......isn't it a drake?

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

To me, the Drake is a San Francisco hotel with a great bar on top.

Just to clairfy, it's the Sir Francis* Drake Hotel; we don't name hotels after fowl.

Perdita

(*not to be confused with the St. Francis Hotel just down the hill)

 

[Guest]

The caption reads, "We're canards on my mother's side."

 

[CharleyH]

Perdita: Hm - I'm STILL waiting for the definition of minge - lol

Has Min gotten over her, blue coldness - is she hotter now, roasting, baking, simmering?

 

[Guest]

Perdita: Hm - I'm STILL waiting for the definition of minge - lol

I posted it on p. 16 (I think) of the word association thread; Gauche later qualified its use as an adjective. P.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I posted it on p. 16 (I think) of the word association thread; Gauche later qualified its use as an adjective. P.

LOL. Good ole Gauche. Keeping us abreast of such literary technicalities. Between P and Gauche, I'm going for a record number of newly learned words this year!

~lucky (humble thanks to you both)

 

[Somme]

I'll get a thick ear for this but....

If It Quacks Like A Duck...

http://publicaddress.net/default,1103.sm#post1103

Disclaimer...This has nowt to do with th' resident gosling.

 

[minsue]

Re: I'll get a thick ear for this but....

If It Quacks Like A Duck...

http://publicaddress.net/default,1103.sm#post1103

Disclaimer...This has nowt to do with th' resident gosling.

Subject change appreciated, Somme.

 

[Somme]

Re: Re: I'll get a thick ear for this but....

Subject change appreciated, Somme.

I'm feeling duely chastised...forgive me?.......(even though I knew what I was doing?)