J Appledog and the Goose

Hey I2,
Man you are right about the oysters!...and you are right close to the coast enough to make the drive.

Nothing I like more than to take a bushel and roast them (I gits lazy after shucking a few). Oh man that and a cold beer!!!

About the goose. They taste as ornery as they are in life...but the one I tried was on a farm and not commercially raised. Tough and greasy was my recollection, but if commercially raised and all it might make the difference.

Good luck my man!

PrestonD

Did my best (involuntary) Homer Simpson impression as I read your message...


YUUMMMMMMM, OYSTERS...........AND BEER!!!!

Nothing better than cool weather and a fire with a table of oysters it's the only good thing about winter around here.

Sorry I didn't post the goose report right away but I headed home to Florida for a week the day after I smoked it. Friends came over to help out with the rest of the meal while we packed and it got late and the flight was early.... It was a wild goose breast (shot in Canada). It was moist & tasty, to everyone's astonishment. Certainly the best goose I've ever cooked. And I've ruined more than one.... The brine was a huge help. If the recipe has been posted on my web site I'll let you know. It's the same recipe that I've used to brine turkeys for the outdoor cooking competition that our local Cookshack dealer hosts here in West Michigan in early November. I won it last year. 3rd this year.

Now what shall I do with the lobsters and wild boar that I brought home with me? JCA

I just checked - the web site has been updated and the brine recipe is up.

It is very cold here in Michigan tonight but I got to sail in the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day, and eat stone crab claws with Mrs. Dog's Disappearing Mustard. All of my family is still in Florida & we all got to be together for the holiday for the first time in about 20 years!

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Bone app�tit! J Appledog

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but I headed home to Florida

Hmmmmmmmmm. Let me get this straight. You're cold in Michigan, but Florida is your home. But you live in Michigan...

And you eat.......Green Swamp wild hog and Canadian geese.

I suspect there's a story there. I went to school in Ann Arbor for a few years, but hustled home to Florida...and stayed.

Smoke the boar meat, but sautee the lobsta.

Toss it this way and we'll cook it....

We have a freezer full of ducks from Dakota & geese from Canada, lobsters from the keys and an ugly old boar from South Florida. Often there is so much in the Cookshack that I have to use my BGEgg. Horrors!!!

Jdogg,

Nice website! And you enjoy the best of both worlds...yankee and southern cooking.

But I am still getting over the Green Egg admission....ha ha! LOL!

Best wishes for a wonderful Holiday!

PrestonD