Why hello there! Is anyone still here? I’ve neglected this place so long that I’ll be surprised if there is.
Life has been crazy, work has been busy, and I sometimes don’t know which end is up. But it seems that the universe is conspiring to give me a bit of a breather, and so, you know, I might be back for a bit.
Those of you that asked about a Dark Days Challenge for this year. Um, yeah. No. There’s no challenge. But I hope you’re doing the best you can to eat sustainably and locally through the winter.
As for us? The garden sort of got put to bed. The broilers made it to the freezer. The hens are living in the broiler shed for the winter to give their pasture a rest. Digger is still here and still super cute. And now he has a ridiculously sweet miniature mule as a companion. More on all of that later.
This post? This one is at Mike’s request. Yesterday (Friday) he had the day off and so went bird hunting up at Lake Terrell, up near Ferndale, WA, by himself. And he had a good day. A very big, and a somewhat small, Canadian goose good day. And so tonight we ate goose breast (from the big goose – the small one went in the freezer). And he wanted me to share it with you.
I used the recipe from the River Cottage Meat cookbook. You’ll find it in the index if you look. It’s the one with pineapple (so not local). And the cooking time is obviously for a much smaller goose. But, in the end, it was delicious. It wasn’t a true Dark Days dinner – the broccoli was from California and the pineapple from Hawaii – but the goose? That was all local.
That’s my plate above. Mike thought mine might not be pretty enough so he dished his in the most composed way he could. His is below.
I hope that this post finds you enjoying the first bit of 2013 and recovering from your holiday season. What have you been cooking lately?