Everyone knows that today is MLK Day and we respect his memory, but few people know it is also National Peking Duck Day. I have never had Peking Duck. Whenever I've seen it on a Chinese restaurant menu it usually says something like 'it will take 45 minutes to prepare.' Now I am a patient person but when I'm hungry I would rather be eating than waiting, especially when there are so many good things on the menu. I suppose I could try cooking it at home. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I did cook a goose once when I was a young homemaker. For some unremembered reason, I decided that I should prepare a goose one Thanksgiving. You've heard of goose grease? I don't remember how that goose tasted but I presume it was ok. Everyone ate it. What I do clearly remember is the grease. I kept draining the grease out of the roasting pan and eventually filled two large coffee cans with the stuff. Not sure why I had saved those coffee cans but I was glad I did. In case you're wondering (I'm sure you are) I did not keep that grease to use in other cooking projects. Even then I wasn't that domestic. I put those cans of grease out in the cold garage until it solidified, then pitched it. In all the years since then I have successfully roasted many turkeys but never another goose, and no ducks either.
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