Goose Fat!

When I bought my GOTH TOP for the rock party I had a similiar wow! reaction all the way home too. It was very silly and floating. Soon I will have to come with a "do not place near naked flame" warning. Hooray for BATWINGS.

On a similar gourmandy note: I recently bought a teeny pot of Gentlemen's Relish for posh toast purposes and nostalgia since my dad always used to have some hanging about. I really prefer slightly less fishy (i.e. deli generic) anchovy butter, but what can ya do? Make yr own, I suppose, but who has time to mash an anchovy, to paraphrase some woman or other?

Graham: of _course_ Sarah needed a special Goth Top becoz u wuld not no she iz a goff otherweyes. Very sparkly and scary it is too.

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I ph34r the goth top in question wd not be safe in the kitchen but ph34r not for I am amassing a large quantity of them ALL THE TIME. Even as we speak!

I do not like the sound of ye gentlemangs reslish though HUR HUR HUR!

Gentlemen's relish rules on hot toast, to make anchovy butter mix the gentlemen's relish with soft melty butter - something less strong.

Goose roasting tip:- stuff the goose with mashed potatoes, the absorb some of the fat meaning you have to spoon it off less and you get mashed potatoes infused with goose fat, and if that's not woirth having I don't know what is.

Right I shall also try mashed potatoes with goose fat. Cor. What ELSE goes with goose fat eh (apart from Channel swimmers)?

Actually I think Channel water is directly funding our shower because it is always COLD causing me to jump about avoiding the water shouting BUGGER! NO! COLD! MEEP! GO HOT!! NOW!!! ARGH I didn't mean THAT HOT!!!

Something I also noticed in the potato section of sainsburys was that one variety of potatoes, whilst otherwise seeming as scrubbed as any othe variety of supermarket potato, was pack with what looked like bark to give a mud like effect.

Yikes am I the most carnivorous woman alive?

GROO!

I love the Sains selection of root veg. I always bimble about for ages in it. And I want to buy a marrow, but think it would probably end up too heavy a STASH to carry home BAH HUMBUG.

But can you cook marrow with GOOSE FAT cos if so...

Someone put a tag round Dan's toe and wheel him out as he is clearly dead.

You can probably roast marrow like other courgette/aubergine type things. And why, what kind of basting product could be better than...

probably a fair point, but if you buy a goose you get to eat a goose.

Is that supposed to be a GOOD thing???? The nastiest Christmas dinner I ever had was the year my father made roasted goose with prune stuffing (complete with freshly-killed goose from the goose farmers next door) (yes, I grew up living across a field from GOOSE FARMERS).

You could try all those those 'confit de' recipes: the method is supposed to make whatever you are cooking in it very tender. Gordon Ramsay's 'Seasonal' cookbook has loads of them.

Sloppy butt-sex. (As opposed to neat, tidy butt-sex, heh.)

*cries* I hate you. Seriously, I would love to get free free-range poultry. Granted, I would probably soon become too large to leave my apartment, so it's probably for the best. No hard feelings?

Another advantage of having country relations - my wee cousins (strapping track & fielders) are trainee gamekeepers and get paid in pheasants when they assist at shoots. Not as satisfying as shooting the rich businessmen who pay hundreds of pounds for some sense that they're living it up aristo-stylee, but tasty nonetheless.

Deep fried Mars Bars, surely. In goose fat of course.

Goose farmers must be a euphemism for something quite unspeakable.

That devil that lives on your shoulder, on the other side from the angel? He just stopped worrying and lives in your skull now.

I might try again tonight, but I've run out of potatoes! Maybe I will get some from ooh I dunno, a SHOP!

How does one make latkes?

Then again at the moment I am going through a bout of horrified I AM A BAD BAD PERSON and don't think I am even worthy of eating, I might parcel up all my food for orphans or something ARGRH.

I'm going to make goose for Thanksgiving...the (potentially) delicious goose body is in my freezer, and it has taken over my thoughts! I am so excited to make this thing.

I'm excited for you, too! when you take it out of the oven, you can announce in an ominous noir voice Your goose is cooked!

oh my gosh

early part of this thread has so many excellent suggestions. gentleman's relish - who knew?

The most mindbending suggestion here IMO is to put mashed potatoes inside the goose!!! !@!

i know! it sounds a little odd tbh - like i imagine they'd absorb a LOT of fat. i mean, it's not hard to get grease into potatoes

still, i've never cooked a goose and am curious, so my heart is with you this thanksgiving