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This from our sort of local designer supermarket. Its in a wealthy neighborhood and has comical prices. I go there occasionally for cheese.  A tiny NY strip will go for $15...a yellow 1lb cauliflower for $5. And this 11lb ish goose for over a hundred.  And it will be gone tomorrow.

 

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$100 plus sounds like a lot for a goose but that is a free-range, no antibiotics/no hormones 'happy' goose for less than $10 a pound. Hate to say it but that is a better price than I would pay here for a dour, caged, stringy goose with raging hormones (but no antibiotics, mind you).

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 Goose is most definitely a luxury. The last time I bought one many, many years ago it was close to $70 and did not approach the quality of this one.  It is not just the initial cost but the fact that meat to bone ratio does not make it a bargain. Still.....I do love goose. 

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We usually have goose at Christmas, and the last one cost 50 quid from our local butcher, who gets it direct from a local farmer, so yeah, it does seem expensive. 

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28 minutes ago, rotuts said:

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@gfweb  

 

 

maybe you could take a few pics of that place ?

 

it would be entertaining   

 

OK

Its a pretty place.

It'll be a while before I get back though.

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Been ages since I cooked a goose. Any idea how many servings one could get out of it?  eG recently determined that a chicken will serve 6 or 7 if one counts the salad.

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Today's price-shocker at Wegmans, Elmira, NY

Wegmans Veggie Noodles (spiralized zucchini and yellow squash)....a jaw-dropping $6.99 per lb!!!!! :blink:

I'm shocked that there are folks who will buy it!!!

Insanity!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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goose needs SV.  

 

collect all the  goose fat if you like it, and do the skin differently  i.e. double pan'd w parchment in the Breville until crisp.

 

although the breast from the goose  is 'dark'  its delicious rare.  make sure you  get rid of those Br tendons.

 

personally I would not dream of conventionally roasting a goose.

 

of course, you might deconstruct one and put on stuffing  ( 2 - 3 x amounts ) in a large pan and roast it that way

 

then the trimmings would make a stock  ( ip'd ) which you would use for the stuffing that's under the goose parts you choose to

 

roast on top of the stuffing.

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17 minutes ago, DiggingDogFarm said:

Today's price-shocker at Wegmans, Elmira, NY

Wegmans Veggie Noodles (spiralized zucchini and yellow squash)....a jaw-dropping $6.99 per lb!!!!! :blink:

I'm shocked that there are folks who will buy it!!!

Insanity!!!

 

Yeah, but those free-range, pastured vegetables are expensive. I mean, they roam far and wide and don't take kindly to being herded. it takes several farmhands all day to wrangle enough for just one day's worth of noodle production.

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I'm rich, I'm rich I tell ya.  Some mornings we awake to 30 or more Canadas on the pond. Earlier this spring, I could have paid off the place with snow geese. And boy are they free range.  Just walk across the yard after they have been grazing on it! You know they have "ranged" thereO.o

 Also have blue winged teal, wood ducks, mergansers, and a pair of coots. (Oh wait, that last item is me and the hubby)   If you want them, I'll throw a muskrat in for free with every $100 worth of geese.

 Have fixed one goose in my life and I set off a huge grease fire in our first apartment.  I still remember the mess so never again.  

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Why not suggest a food truck featuring goose dishes? The Flying Goose , We Will Cook your Goose.  Possibilities are endless just like the damn geese appear to be.

Many years ago, The Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources rounded up Canada geese and took them to Canada at the request of a local government agency there.  Their local population had been wiped out and they needed a new supply.  We were happy to do it!  Hard to imagine any place actually having a shortage of them isn't it?

 

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big mistake, Iowa.

 

there are no Canadiene's in the my BOS area.  nice.  plenty of Deer and Deer Ticks.

 

i lived on L.I for a few years.  A Bazzilion down there.  Greasy lawns if you know what i mean.

 

way before SV

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2 hours ago, IowaDee said:

 

 Have fixed one goose in my life and I set off a huge grease fire in our first apartment.  I still remember the mess so never again.  

Haha!  The last time that I cooked a goose (on the rotisserie grill),  my neighbors called the fire department. They thought my house was on fire. My well-intentioned neighbor had a bit too much eggnog but bravely came running over anyway to try to save us. LOL 

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I had goose only once, in Germany -- but I wish I lived in walking distance of that store.  (I live just out of walking distance of a similar purveyor,)

 

Note:  For a price, D'artagnan will ship.

 

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I've only had goose one time. I don't think I've ever seen it in a store anywhere, although I'm sure if one looked, they could get it around the holidays.

 

My second husband's uncle had a country place on several acres an hour so out of Memphis outside Collierville, TN. We were married out there on his place, and a while after that, the uncle called him and asked him to come shoot a problem Canadian goose that had settled on their pond. He was the best shot in the family, and we had contests shooting a quarter nailed to a fence post from distance regularly with .22 rifles. It seems the goose was making airborne attack dives at people just trying to get from their cars to inside the house. It was scary because the feathered beast had a wingspan of about 6 feet. It probably wasn't a legal kill even back then in the mid eighties, but there were stills out around there, and if I were a game warden, I don't think I would have made that area a priority, if you know whut I mean.

 

He got it with one shot from a .22 through the neck, and the uncle's lab retrieved it from the pond. My husband plucked and gutted it, and we took it home and I cooked it in my Brinkman smoker for hours. @cdhis right. It was really gamy, REALLY gamy. But I was determined to eat it, and earn my creds as a proper country girl. :)

 

I would not be in the market for a $116 goose, even if it tasted a lot better than mine did. Good thing it was there for the rich folks, though. xD

 

@gfwebI'd also love to see some pics from your upscale market to see how the other half lives.

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