Dec 29thChristmas Goose

The day after Christmas, we decided to smoke a goose.  I got up early and got the smoker going.  This is about the time I realized I’d been a bit ambitious this year with a new bebe and everything.  While cleaning the smoker, we saw we had about a gallon of duck fat in the water plan.

Shelier came out and cleaned it, while I was getting everything going.

FJ enjoyed a soak, and then went to see his personal trainer.

I cracked a beer.

For lunch, I fried up some leftover steak, eggs, and potatoes.

I wasn’t very happy with how the skin came out on the bird, but nobody complained.  We smoked some potatoes in the goose fat.  Then LeBeef and I made a spiced fig gravy.

Everything was great, but we definitely have some lessons learned/best practices for next year.  The icing on the cake, was apple pie (not pictured, but homemade), with homemade whipped cream.