Roast Goose

[SRD]

It's Michaelmas on Monday and we're entertaining some friends so I'm off to collect our Michaelmas Goose this morning. I shall stuff it with chunks of rabbit, apple, onion and a few sage leaves and roast it long and slow so that the fat is gently rendered off, flavouring the stuffing as it goes. I'll serve it with braised red cabbage (Delia's recipe), carrots, roast and mashed potatoes (I may stir some apple into the mash) and forcemeat balls made from the giblets, breadcrumbs, prunes, apple, sage & onion bound with a litte beaten egg. To start a few morsels of smoked eel with silverskin onions and cornichons. For pud MrsSRD has made a chocolate marquise (this recipe) with raspberry coulis & cream and a cheeseboard of English cheeses. Dry sherry with the eel, bordeaux (claret) with the goose, raspberry cordial with the pud. Coffee, mint turkish delight and homemade bourbon truffles to finish.

Is anyone else celebrating Michaelmas this year?

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