Recipe: Golden Goose Roast Potato Salad With Buttermilk Dressing Recipe »
After Christmas this year, we still had a surfeit of potatoes and while I was cleaning out my fridge and cupboard I decided to try and make a potato salad but instead of using boiled potatoes, I wanted to use golden roasted potatoes instead and make it a warm potato salad!
A little more cleaning out of the fridge gave me just what I needed for the dressing with some some buttermilk as well as a little jar of lovely boutique sweet chilli sauce. And after roasting the potatoes in the goose fat so that they crisped up bronzed, golden and crunchy I seasoned the crunchy, golden potatoes and drizzled some tangy, creamy and spicy buttermilk dressing on top and as they say, everyone lived happily ever after.
Except the goose, sorry about that.
Last year for Christmas I roasted a goose. It was my first time roasting one and it brought back memories of one of my favourite stories when I was young. It was about a goose lady who lived in a farmhouse. She had a flock of geese and one night when it was thundering and lightning outside she brought in her geese from the storm to protect them. I thought that it was a charming story especially as I had only a passing interaction with pets (and you can't really hug a goldfish, they tend to die when you do) so the idea of having a live goose in a house was something that I dreamed about.
Little did I know that a few decades later I would find out that my mother in law Tuulikki was a goose lady. When I told Mr NQN of my plans to roast a goose he told me of how his mother had looked after a flock of geese when he was growing up. One of them was sick and nursing a broken foot so she brought the goose in to sleep with the family.
I told you they were an unusual family didn't I? ;)
He also revealed to me that rather than being charming, the goose was quite frightening to his chubby, tiny four year old self. "They hiss at you you know!" he said. So much for fairytales!
In any case, I still roasted that goose, being sure not to place it in front of Tuulikki lest it traumatise her. And I still had the several cups worth of goose fat that rendered from it. The fat lasts for quite a while in the fridge and of course the best partner for goose fat is potatoes.
So tell me Dear Reader, what pet did you want the most when you were younger?
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