"Pulled" goose sandwiches

[crockett]

I've got a cityslicker friend coming over for dinner tomorrow night. She's interested in wild game so I pulled some goose breast out of the freezer. Marinated it overnight in brine with some balsamic vinegar to draw out the blood and cut down the gaminess a bit. As we speak it's in the slow-cooker in a bath of onion soup mix, where it will stay until it's falling apart. Then I will discard the soup mix and pull it apart with two forks, like pulled pork, mix it with BBQ sauce and chuck it back into the slow cooker while I spread some garlic butter on hamburger buns and toast them a bit under the broiler. "Pulled goose" sandwiches - we'll see what she thinks...
-Croc

[sage]

Sounds like you're onto something there, now I only need the goose part. I hope she enjoys.

[crockett]

So the pulled goose was a HIT. I tossed the goose breasts into the slow cooker for 12 hours, then pulled the meat apart into strands wiht a fork.

Then I mixed it with the BBQ sauce and strained all the nice onion/garlic bits out of the onion soup mix in the slow-cooker, and added those to the meat too. Mixed it all up and left it on "warm" until suppertime. The goose meat "drank up" a lot of the moisture from the BBQ sauce, so a re-added some of the onion soup liquid to get just the right consistency.

Brushed some buns with garlic butter and toasted them in the ovan bit, while melting mozzarella onto the bottom half. Then piled on the pulled goose, topped with red onions.

Then served with coleslaw and beer - it was a definite HIT (check out the blonde one licking her lips!)! Ed - you'll also note my guest wearing - you guessed it - a Dux-N-Dogs sweater (her own, not mine!).

In fact, it was such a big hit that I will milk it to justify buying some goose silos! lol!
-Croc

[sage]

Looks amazing and not quite lunchtime yet!! Great pic of the dog too.

[neggie]

CROCKETT!!!
That looks absolutely AWESOME!!!

I can almost smell it, I've already got a call into my wife to pull a couple out of the freezer!

Gotta try this

[jaydog]

Holy crap buddy, good eats and a trio of vixins to share it with. Your'e living the good life!

[Beaus_Dad]

Yes sir! noted and appreciate the fine advertising. Also Ruby licking her lips ;D saying "IS This All For Me?" LOl ;D

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I made up a crock pot full of pulled goose for my work potluck tonight. It smells damn good and I'm not sure if it's all going to make it to the party! I think the brine and balsamic vinegar was the key to this recipe.

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Okay, I am officially going to bed with the meat sweats. The pulled goose was well received.

[crockett]

Refined the pulled goose recipe a bit last night. Liked it better so I'll update it here. First, I used two packages instead of one package of the onion soup mix (but still only 3 cups of water = more concentrated taste). When the goose was done I pulled it out and instead of throwing away the soup I strained it to get all the nice onion bits and any stray little pieces of goose. Once the goose was pulled apart I put it back into the slow cooker and dumped the onion "slop" back in wiht it and mixed it up. At first it looked like it was going to be too watery but then the pulled goose soaked up the juices. I used less BBQ sauce this time (last time was a whole bottle (!). This time I only used about half - not as sweet and much better (in my opinion and the wife liked it better too - she was worried about the millions of calories in a whole bottle of BBQ sauce!). We bought good mozza cheese in a "ball" (president's choice) and melted a 1/4 slice on each garlic bun before loading on the pulled goose and topping with red onion slices for cruch. Served it with 'slaw again. Incredible! The wife took leftovers for lunch and I had another one for breakfast!
-Croc