Fox and Smokydoke, here's a picture of another duck I did with that recipe. I get a full cup of duck fat from every one I've roasted. Yum Yum Yum
FINE looking duck Kayelle. Yeah roasting a duck, pretty much trashes your oven. I can't imagine what a goose would do. However, having a big ole jar of duck fat is a Good Thing.
I used it to baste my turkey this year, first big bird I've done, and first I've done without brineing. It was a fresh farm turkey, and only available on Wednesday, so I decided to cross my fingers, baste the heck out of it with fat of duck, and spices of Some Import Carefully Decided Upon.
Also, a quite liberal amount of fat from Sir Before Thanksgiving Duck was used in the stuffing, and roasting the potatoes, where duck fat excels.
A judge I will not name in the midwest is being a, excuse my language, Dick. He is making Beloved Wife appear in court for a case she is trying early the day after Xmas, knowing full well it means she has to get on a red-eye plane 12/26. He doesn't like fancy out of state lawyers in his little puddle, and is trying to get her not to appear.
So I'm thinking of hanging out in our place, spending the day cooking up a Xmas goose and sides, and dealing with family over new years. That way we can get to bed early, and I can get her to the airport.
I figure if a judge is going all Scrooge on us, I can go Charles Dickens on the Xmas dinner, and have it early in the day, Victorian Style. Hopefully he will be visited by ghosts of Christmas.
And the oven is already trashed from Thanksgiving and pre-Thanksgiving duck; I mean not in 'gonna start a fire' level, but in not as clean as I want. So 'gonna have to clean it out anyhow.
My thinking, and friends let me know if I'm thinking clearly, my only real option here is a Christmas Goose. Nothing else makes sense.
TBS