Challenge #25: Anything But Turkey

[miss_s_b]

So I know we're all* going to be cooking festive treats this week. And I love festive food, generally. But turkey is so boring. So give me your non-turkey festive food.

Do you have a great sprout method?
Is your Christmas Pudding to die for?
How about a nice Christmas ham?

Get to it!

(And Merry Christmas/Newtonmas/Saturnalia/Yule/Midwinter Festival of your choice)

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* OK, maybe not all, but you know what I mean

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Due to a general lack of enthusiasm for turkey, and me cocking up ordering on line, we're having goose this year. I'm a bit scared....

[miss_s_b]

We're having goose this year like we do every year, because we are snobs.

Do give me a holler if you want tips, but the most important one is to do it onna rack above a roasting tin filled with potatoes, so you get goose fat roast potatoes.

[tree_and_leaf]

That is a top tip in its own right! We normally have duck, but we left it too late and Booths weren't accepting any new orders. When we were in Tod we got it from the butchers, but I've yet to find a good butcher where we are now.

[miss_s_b]

I have a good local butcher, but I supplement them by buying stuff from Farmison. They're not cheap, but they're very, very good.

[tree_and_leaf]

I hadn't heard of them, but they look really good! Not cheap, as you say, but I'm trying to go the 'less, but better' route with meat where I can. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.

[miss_s_b]

No worries. The venison is particularly good.

[tree_and_leaf]

Noted!

[summerstorm]

What is goose like? I've never had goose. I need to get back on my feet and start traveling again and pitching press meals to restaurants so I can continue down my list of 'try every bird and also mammal as long as it's not a domesticated species'. My problem is whenever there's duck I make a beeline for it instead of trying anything else, but hey, I did have pheasant the one time.

[miss_s_b]

It's reasonably ducky in flavour, but the texture is different to duck (and, indeed, anything else).

I really love it.