*This is a guest post from hubby

After all the hard work in hunting and preparing the goose meat, I have to say that I was disappointed.  All four of us hunters did not enjoy eating goose.  Maybe it’s because we’re too accustomed to duck at home, maybe we undercooked it, maybe wild animals taste gamey in general, but so far I have not tasted one better than a duck.  I even tried the goose in Hong Kong (where it’s an expensive delicacy) to be sure, but I guess I just don’t like it.

Why didn’t we hunt ducks instead?  When we finally decided on hunting after months of indecision, we missed duck season.  Goose it is.

Those are the Canada Geese we hunted. I’m the one in the goofy Russian hat holding my Benelli M2 shotgun.

We had goose breast meat steaks the first night.  The meat looked better than it tasted.  It was a bit disappointing after the hard work of de-feathering and filleting the meat.  We tried multiple temperatures – medium-rare, medium, medium-well, well – they all tasted very gamey.

Slow grilling steaks on the rotisserie.

Different cuts of goose meat – all disappointing.

You can’t have a campfire without a couple of s’mores.

The second night we took turns roasting a whole goose on the spitfire.  It was slow and tedious.  The wind blew smoke everywhere.  We were afraid that the smoke would attract bears to our cabin.

The spitfire is slow and tedious work.

I went inside and loaded the shotgun with slugs just in case.  Tom readies himself with it and found time to light up a cigar.

Tom posing with the Benelli M2 back at the cabin.

Finally done roasting after 45 minutes. We were all choking with smoke by then.

This bird looked better outside in the dark. Inside it just looks unevenly cooked. We were not going back out to re-roast it.

The leg was all bloody. Mike did not really eat it.

Good thing we had Chef Kimchi (Mike) with us and he had a backup plan: well-done geese breast meat wrapped in bacon, jalapenos, jack cheese, and onions.  It’s true that bacon makes everything taste better.

Geese breast meat in bacon, jalapenos, jack cheese, and onions.

Another shot of Mike’s creation.

All in all, the trip was a great success.  We learned about hunting, we got to shoot some guns, and we actually did get to enjoy the food to some degree.  Best of all, we had a blast and took home some great memories to remember!