To the outside I slather the chicken with a thick coating
of goose fat, sprinkle with kosher salt and cracked pepper.
While a bit more expensive pound for pound than pastured turkey, you will render a ton
of goose fat and a gallon or more of goose stock in the process.
I had seen a recipe for crispy potatoes from Nigella Lawson, and they looked so good... but the recipe called for two 11 - ounce jars
of goose fat for 5 lbs of potatoes!!!
Not exact matches
According to the charity, People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA), ducks and
geese can be force - fed grain and
fat up to three times a day, causing their liver to swell up to ten times it's regular sizes.
Chef: Jacques Pépin Separate the skin from the meat, then steam the
goose before roasting — an adaptation
of a Chinese technique that helps the bird baste in its own
fat and ensures crispy skin.
Better still, duck and
goose fat are said to contain omega - 3
fats and closely resemble olive oil in health benefits: another foundation
of the French Paradox!
Senior food editor, Barney Desmazery: «I use a mix
of sunflower oil and
goose fat -
goose fat alone won't give you a crispness.»
Vitamin K2 has a higher rate
of transport across the placenta than vitamin K1.38 When mothers receive injections
of vitamin K2, the placenta rapidly accumulates it and then releases it slowly to the fetus over time.39 Vitamin K1 is found in leafy greens while vitamin K2 is found in fermented foods and grass - fed animal
fats — especially natto,
goose liver, cheese, and to a lesser extent butter and egg yolks.40
Cassoulet is a hearty French dish that is, except for the beans, a vegetarian's nightmare with its layers
of duck,
goose, veal, smoked sausage and loads
of saturated
fat.
(m) a stew from the South - West
of France, involving white kidney beans and various meats cooked in
goose fat.
All these vitamins were consumed in very high levels in primitive diets.19 Today, due to disastrous dietary advice, most people avoid the dietary sources
of these critical nutrients — egg yolks, butter, organ meats, meat
fats,
goose and chicken liver, cod liver oil, fish eggs and oily fish, and some fermented foods like sauerkraut.20
(Aged cheese and the
fat of ducks and
geese are other excellent sources
of vitamin K2..)
As an example,
geese eat a quantity
of carbohydrate laden foods in the late summer and early fall which causes deposition
of fat including a large deposition
of liver
fat and glycogen, however, when they begin their migration this carb rich diet pretty much ceases as they spend most
of their day flying in migration.
The low amount
of polyunsaturated
fats (PUFAs) make
goose fat extremely desirable for cooking and highly resistant to rancidity.
Free - roaming poultry: Another powerful group
of foods that contain cellulite - reducing
fat includes chicken, turkey,
goose, or duck products from poultry raised in the traditional manner, meaning they were outside eating bugs instead
of caged and debeaked.
Our Christmas
goose this year weighed in at 11.5 pounds and produced a full quart
of rich, delicious
goose fat.
Use a stainless steel baster to suck off some
of the rendered
goose fat in the roasting pan to cook them.
Egg scrambled with plenty
of ghee,
goose fat or duck
fat.
We tend to have a chicken or turkey and plenty
of the traditional trimmings, pigs in blankets and
goose fat roasties.
Christmas is coming and the
goose is getting
fat — along with the rest
of us when the selection boxes start coming out.
Christmas is coming, the
geese are getting
fat... On our freelance writing blog, I start reminding writers about the importance
of Christmas sales from July onwards.
If one has the same diet and consumes the same calories but substituting corn syrup and trans
fats, one will tend to blow up like a Strasbourg
goose before expiring in a greasy puddle
of human foie gras.