The Ospidillo Cafe Duck and Goose Rub

"I especially like this rub for roasted wild ducks and geese but it works just as well on domestic ones. This should be enough for one goose or two large ducks, such as mallards. You can't make this up much ahead of time or you'll loose the good flavor of the orange zest. You can substitute crushed fennel seed for the basil if you wish. Finally, if you prepare your fowl right at the hunting camp, you can use the rub there as well. Enjoy!"
 
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Ready In:
10mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
1 batch
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directions

  • Blend all the rub ingredients.
  • Pat the duck or goose dry, inside and out, with paper towels.
  • Rub this blend all over the bird(s), inside and out. Try to get some under the skin if you can. Since ducks and geese can have a lot of exterior fat, it's important to get a good amount of rub in the body cavity.
  • Allow the seasoned bird to sit for a few minutes after applying the rub and prior to roasting.
  • Not all the rub will stick to the bird -- that's okay. Just use whatever sticks.
  • NOTE: I also like to melt a stick of butter and pour over the duck or goose once it has been seasoned and is in the roaster.

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<p>I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. <br /><br />Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) <br /><br />I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! <br /><br />They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. <br /><br />Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. <br /><br />I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! <br /><br />http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm</p>
 
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