What's cookin', good lookin'?

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Tonight it will be lemon pepper salmon, rosemary quinoa with red onions and mushrooms, brussel sprouts and butter beans.

Cabbage and beans and fish and whole grain all together scares me

 

[desertslave]

I get to go out with two girlfriends for dinner....fish tacos and nachos!

 

[sereneone4u]

Cabbage and beans and fish and whole grain all together scares me

lol

You sound like my husband.

 

[Kalamain]

Tonight it will be lemon pepper salmon, rosemary quinoa with red onions and mushrooms, brussel sprouts and butter beans.

Cabbage and beans and fish and whole grain all together scares me

I'd more fear someone striking a match!

parp..... BOOM!!!

 

[Kalamain]

Baked Tortillas with honey coated, oven roasted sweet potato and thinly sliced raw carrots.

Normally I would quickly steam the carrots a little.... but I've managed to break my steamer.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I get to go out with two girlfriends for dinner....fish tacos and nachos!

More cabbage and beans and fish and.. complex carbs

 

[khlarrissa]

Gingerbread Chex Mix, to put in the Christmas package I'm shipping to my parents. My mom loves gingerbread, so when I saw this recipe on Pinterest a while back, I knew I had to make it for her.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Gingerbread Chex Mix, to put in the Christmas package I'm shipping to my parents. My mom loves gingerbread, so when I saw this recipe on Pinterest a while back, I knew I had to make it for her.

Looks yummy! Great site, too. Have not seen it before. Thanks!

 

[MedicalMuse]

Have a Christmas party. Beer themed. I'm making cheesy 'choked beer dip. And beer bread.

 

[Endless_Night]

I bought a goose today. For the last several years I've wanted to try cooking one for the holidays, but I've always lost my nerve. Why? I have no idea. I mean, seriously, how much more difficult can it be to cook a goose than a turkey?

Anyone with goose experience please feel free to share advice! If it helps, I intend to cook it in a cast iron doufeu.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I bought a goose today. For the last several years I've wanted to try cooking one for the holidays, but I've always lost my nerve. Why? I have no idea. I mean, seriously, how much more difficult can it be to cook a goose than a turkey?

Anyone with goose experience please feel free to share advice! If it helps, I intend to cook it in a cast iron doufeu.

Is this some kind of set up for an elaborate cooked goose joke?
I have cooked ducks, but never a goose...

 

[midwestyankee]

I bought a goose today. For the last several years I've wanted to try cooking one for the holidays, but I've always lost my nerve. Why? I have no idea. I mean, seriously, how much more difficult can it be to cook a goose than a turkey?

Anyone with goose experience please feel free to share advice! If it helps, I intend to cook it in a cast iron doufeu.

Is this some kind of set up for an elaborate cooked goose joke?
I have cooked ducks, but never a goose...

The one time we cooked a goose we found it quite fatty and mildly unpleasant. Which was odd because we always had goose along with the turkey for Christmas when I was young and I never recall the goose being not tasty.

 

[Endless_Night]

Is this some kind of set up for an elaborate cooked goose joke?
I have cooked ducks, but never a goose...

The one time we cooked a goose we found it quite fatty and mildly unpleasant. Which was odd because we always had goose along with the turkey for Christmas when I was young and I never recall the goose being not tasty.

Ummm. This is not helpful. Anyone else? *said hopefully*

 

[midwestyankee]

Ummm. This is not helpful. Anyone else? *said hopefully*

Have you checked in with Alton Brown?

 

[Endless_Night]

Have you checked in with Alton Brown?

No. But excellent idea!

 

[Kalamain]

We are doing rabbit this year. A very simple meat to cook.

If Goose is anything like other gamey meats than I would really suggest cooking low and slow and LOTS of basting.

 

[respeito]

Endless_Night, here are a couple of links that may help you:

http://www.geese.cc/pages/nevercookedyourgoose.html

http://www.lecreuset.com/roasted-goose-stuffed-with-vegetables


note: both sites mentioned reserving the liver and fat for other uses.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I definitely want pics of your cooked goose
For reals...

 

[Endless_Night]

Endless_Night, here are a couple of links that may help you:

http://www.geese.cc/pages/nevercookedyourgoose.html

http://www.lecreuset.com/roasted-goose-stuffed-with-vegetables


note: both sites mentioned reserving the liver and fat for other uses.

Thank you very much, Respeito!!!

I definitely want pics of your cooked goose
For reals...

And you betcha! Assuming I manage to wrangle it into the oven.

 

[desertslave]

And you betcha! Assuming I manage to wrangle it into the oven.

Another excellent check-in source would be Joy of Cooking. I seem to remember that Christmas goose is less desirable than Michaelmas (they're leaner then). Also, I think that JoC discusses rendering the fat by doing a sort of sautee before roasting. If you don't have JoC I'd be glad to look it up for you.

 

[midwestyankee]

Someone else did the cooking, but I'm enjoying some Bûche de Noël for breakfast.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Leftovers from yesterday were turned into dinner. Pork shoulder with curry sauce, banana and cashew served with rice and for dessert we had lingonberry parfait.

We also prepared the head cheese for Christmas.

 

[LallyH]

Family get together at ours today, so it was...

Granary rolls, cheese topped rolls, barbecued chicken, yorkshire baked ham, Red Leicester cheese, crumbly lancashire cheese, spicy king prawns, pickles, cherry tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, coleslaw, mixed green salad with rocket, spinach, red chard, batavia and mizuna, garlic crackers. Followed by homemade mince pies, sultana scones and shortbread.

And plenty of conversation, fun and good times

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Zuppa Toscana made with a rather spicy sausage.

 

[Kalamain]

Zuppa Toscana made with a rather spicy sausage.

By my giddy aunt, that looks good! *drools*
I'm SO making that....