Not really the bacon but dinner nonetheless:
Chad left to go hunting this morning at 5 a.m. when the temp was about 4°. Before 8 a.m. I heard the garage door open and I thought . . Yep, it’s too cold out there for him. He’s back early! I was wrong! He and his friend got their daily limit of 2 each right off the bat!
Look at the size of this goose! They’re so heavy! Chad had them in a bag and I could hardly lift the bag.
I know what we’re having for dinner if he gets at least one of them cleaned in time for me to brine it and cook it for tonight. If not tonight . . tomorrow night!
Bari says
Way to go, Chad! That is awesome! I had heard the geese were really thick right now, and with the extreme cold, they are feeding a lot, so that makes them a little easier to hunt!
DH would be jealous, but just left for a work-trip. He will have to hunt this weekend.
Judy, if you can soak those goose breasts in milk overnight or for a couple of days they taste MUCH better! Takes some of the gamey flavor out.
Awesome!
Tammy says
See……….all that duck calling practice did some good. Right?
Judy D says
Nice!!! I’ve never tasted wild goose. So……is the goose called with the same sound as the duck? Or does he have a different call for the goose? I find this kind of intriguing since hubby is thinking of goose hunting.
Vicki W says
OMG, I love fresh goose – especially when cooked covered in bacon!
Evelyn says
He looks happy! Yes – cooking wild game wrapped in bacon is an excellent suggestion from Vicki. Also – save that goose fat – it is very expensive to buy in the gourmet stores. It is great for frying potato cubes in – among other things! Looks like you will be trying some new recipes soon! Cheers! Evelyn
Kelly E says
WOW!!! Way to go Chad! Those look like huge geese. I wonder also what it tastes like, I’m not sure I’ve ever had goose or duck now that I stop and think about it.
Hopefully he’ll think he has the “call” down now so he won’t have to practice so much haha.
Freda Henderson says
All that practice did pay off. Go Chad!!
Sandra (Sandy Gail) says
Huge birds! Be prepared for lots of fat cooking off. Also wild geese ooze more blood than I like to deal with. But you will make a grand meal of that goose with your cooking talents. Let us know how you like it. I will never cook another one!
Pat says
Be sure to show us these fellows when they are in “food” form and don’t have their little heads still on them, okay??? 🙂
Sandy says
Now that he knows how to get the ducks there is no need to keep practicing. Ya Right
Kelly Ann says
honk..honk….
Dianah says
Practice makes perfect. Way to go Chad!
quiltbea says
So maybe that duck call practice worked!
Chris says
How goes the cleaning and cooking? We finally have our elk done, so we’re taking a breather here. Tell Chad, “Well done!” He sure looks happy and proud. Well, in the second picture that is. In the first he’s probably thinking, “Snap it fast, Mom, these are heavy!” 🙂
Rhonda says
Wow, I guess all that duck calling practice paid off or at least made it bearable at this point……let us know how the dinner turns out.
patchkat~Susan in TX says
Looks like all his “duck calling” worked out! Congrats to Chad and his friend for bagging their limit! I don’t care of duck, but hey…meat is meat!
Billie says
Those are hugh!!! What time is dinner?
Billie
JudyL says
Tonight we had venison. Tomorrow night we’ll have goose stew.
KatieQ says
Wow those are some huge geese. After taking such a short time to catch them it really left a lot of time today to do other things. I hope that did not include more duck calls.
Kathy C says
I live in Oregon now but spent more than half my life in New Jersey.
NONE of this makes any sense to me. I am amazed that you “country” girls know so much about cleaning and preparing all this wild stuff.
But then again, I can shuck an oyster clean in 15 seconds and poach a spring chinook salmon that is ‘to die for’.
JudyL says
Hey, I can shuck and clean an oyster and eat that rascal raw in a heartbeat! Learned that living in southwest Louisiana. Salmon . . I have to wait for those to thaw before I can do anything with them! What I wouldn’t give for FRESH salmon!
Sandy says
Way to go Chad! All that duck call practicing paid off. Can’t wait to hear how your dinner went, Judy.
Laura says
Great geese! So how did you cook them? We had a flock of Canadian Geese fly over yesterday, but they frown at shooting them in the middle of the city, so no geese for us. Not that I’d know what to do with them anyway LOL.
Trish says
I won’t let my husband or son hunt geese, because geese mate for life. I can remember eating them as a child (my step-father at the time was an avid hunter), but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it now. Deer, squirrels and rabbits are no problem, and even the quail I raise for eating, but not geese…YUCK! lol