Re: Any advice is appreciated
Well there are multiple ways to cook ducks and geese. But first theres also a lot of different tasting fowl. Alot of geese eat out of corn fields all day as do alot of mallards and other birds, they are very good to eat. You'll run into certain types of ducks that eat alot of insects,grubs, that kindof food so they can taste a bit off, then you can get into the real "good ones" the fishy tasting ones, certain times of years mallards and certain ducks can be found eating fish roe or just if its like a merganzer they can eat alot of fishy stuff. All these different ducks can be cooked to make them taste good but if you stay away from the fishy ones you'll find it alot easily to enjoy the meat.
As for cooking and eating them you have tons of different ways
-turn them into sausage or pepperoni, most guys just we them into a butcher who will add pork and can make them taste like normal meat with no game taste
-roast it whole, pluck all the feathers, gut, roast in an oven or on a bbq sitting on a beercan,
-cut out both breasts and eat like steaks(more of a game taste)
- cut meat into strips, fry or deep fry, dip in favorite sauces, or put on sandwiches or in wraps
-finely slice breast meat into jerkey strips, marinade and dehydrate or a butcher can do that too
- on geese you can cut both legs and cook any way like chicken wings
-cut strips of duck breast and wrap bacon around them and cook in a brown sugar syrup(very good party snack, people wont even know its duck)
Pretty much you can do whatever you want to it, alot of the time a marinade will help, you can even pour a can of diet coke into it and that can remove some of the game taste if you still dont like it.
1st Im in charge, and if not Matt is. Your job is to sign checks, tell us we're doing good and open your case of scotch after a good day. 2nd my fee. You can keep it, all I want in exchange for my service is the right to hunt all the drakes. A male. Buck only. Why and how are my business. If you don't like it, go alone. Set up right here or in a swamp or in the middle of a noshoot field for all I care. I've been on too many duck hunts with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas. Ok?