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Ducks and geese. Pluck whole bird. Salt and pepper inside and out. Stuff with yellow onions 🧅. Cook in a roasting pan on high heat. Do not over cook.

Duck breasts. Butterfly and stuff with whatever you like. Wrap in thin bacon bbq or smoker.

Never had duck gumbo but would absolutely like to try it someday.

Gumbo

1. make roux. 1/2 cup oil or lard and 1/2 cup flour. Can do on stove top or in oven. Cook till chocolate brown. Not burned, just dark. Takes hours.

2.Mirepoix
Chop 1 green pepper, 1 yellow or red pepper, 6 ribs of Celery and two onions. Need several tbsp of garlic and I like to add a chopped and seeded Jalapeno or two to it.

3. 3/4# of andouille sausage cut into 1/4" rounds. Start sautéing those in a heavy duty Dutch oven. Put about 3/4# duck meat (breasts or legs). Cook all until browned. Remove meat.

Sautee Mirepoix, starting with onion and Celery, when onion is soft and translucent add peppers, garlic and Jalapeno. Sautee until soft. Move pan off heat.

When roux is done, add to Mirepoix and then add 4-5 cups of stock. You want it to thicken, so don't add too much.

Then add meat back, 1/2# of chopped okra, several tbsp of tomato paste and spices. Today, I used paprika, Thyme, marjoram some chopped fresh Parsley salt and black pepper.

Cook another 1-1.5 hours, until thickened. Turn off heat and add 3/4# of shrimp, cover and let residual heat cook shrimp for 8-10 minutes.

Serve over rice with hot sauce and fresh chopped Parsley.

You can use venison, or other seafood too.

Duck and or goose gumbo is my favorite way to eat them too.

I’m going to have to watch how that is done a few times before I try it.

Mark, again, breast em, throw em in with blacktail, sausage/pepperoni… there’s not a wild duck in the world that tastes like a legit 5 star restaurant duck… period

God damn I forgot, folks eat rabbit and squirrels too!!! Haha

We skin them, debone, then grind them.
Taco and burrito goodness.

Skin and grind and make jerky with a jerky shooter. Good stuff, even makes Sky Carp edible.

Sorry can’t bring myself to eat rabbit. 😂😂

I have yet to find a way to make ducks or geese taste "good", and yes......I've had easily a dozen people tell me over the years "you haven't tried my duck jerky, gumbo, hamburger, X, Y, Z", to which I did and I still can't say it was good. Even when ground up and mixed in with deer/elk/whatever grind with bacon and turned into sausage, I could still taste the.......duck.

I largely quit (but not totally) hunting them for multiple reasons beyond taste, though they are fun as hell to shoot.

I truly believe the subjectiveness of taste buds is a huge part of why some people like ducks but hate whitetail, love elk but hate mule deer, etc. I can't tell the difference between any kind of deer, elk or moose, but can for damn sure taste waterfowl's nastiness.