CANADA GOOSE THIGHS IN TURKEY GRAVY (Great Crock-Pot Recipe) - Even Howard likes this one! INGREDIENTS: 2 lbs. Boned Thighs and/or Breast Strips 1"x 4" All Purpose Flour for coating goose pieces Salt & Pepper and other seasonings to taste Cooking Oil 4 - 0.87 oz. Packages of Turkey Gravy Mix 4 cups Water for Gravy Mix DIRECTIONS: Coat goose pieces with seasoned All Purpose Flour and brown lightly in oil over medium-high heat. Prepare gravy by following package directions. Placed browned goose pieces in Crock-Pot or Slow Cooker and cover with Gravy. Cook 6 - 8 hours on LOW - stir occasionally. Serve over mashed potatoes or noodles with a veggie of your choice! Enjoy!!!!
TERIYAKI GOOSE BREASTS INGREDIENTS: 1 cup Honey 1 cup Soy Sauce 1/2 cup Butter, melted (or Vegetable Oil) 1-2 lbs. boned Goose Breasts DIRECTIONS: Mix ingredients in a one gallon zip-style bag. Pierce goose breasts with a fork so marinade can penetrate quickly. Add cold goose breasts and let marinade at room temperature (to keep the butter melted) for 2-3 hours. Refrigerate after 3 hours if necessary. Grill over "hot" Bar-B-Que for 1-2 minutes per side, trying to keep the breast rare to medium rare. If you cook to "well done" the meat will be tough. Serve with Red Wine, New Potatoes and Green Beans in Mushroom Soup. You'll be surprised how close this tastes to beef fillet.
At my house, if you shoot it, you eat it! If you have a "tried & true" recipe you'd like to share, email it to me and I'll post it on the website. Jim@prairiewinddecoys.com	OVEN SMOKED/STUFFED GOOSE INGREDIENTS: 1 Whole Picked Goose (w/Skin) 1 Bottle Liquid Smoke 2 cups Morton's Tenderquick 1/2 cup Salt Carrots, new potatoes, celery, onions, etc. Seasonings to taste (i.e., Worcestershire Sauce, Soy Sauce, Black Pepper) Make a brine solution with the Liquid Smoke, Tenderquick and Salt. It helps to inject the goose with the brine solution with a syringe. Put goose in an air-tight container or zip-type plastic bag and cover with brine - add enough water to ensure goose is covered with solution. Let soak in refrigerator for 1-2 days. Remove goose from brine solution, stuff with vegetables and place the stuffed goose in an "oven cooking bag" (keeps the goose moist). Cook at 300 degrees Farenheit for 3 - 4 hours. I guarantee you will like this one!
B-B-Q GOOSE BREASTS w/CREAM CHEESE & JALAPENO INGREDIENTS: 1 Lg. Jar Jalapeno Slices - Drained, reserve juice 1 8-oz Cream Cheese Block (Not spread) 1/2 lb. Thick-sliced, Peppered Bacon 1-2 lbs. Goose Breasts DIRECTIONS: Tenderize goose breasts with bladed or hammer-style meat tenderizer. Place breasts in Jalapeno juice and refrigerate for 4-6 hours (overnight is best). After marinading, remove breasts from juice (juice can be re-used for same purpose), lay breast out flat, cut 2 1/4" slices of cream cheese off brick and lay in center of breast, top with 2 slices of jalapeno (more if you prefer), roll breast around cheese & jalapenos. Wrap with a slice of bacon and secure with long toothpicks. Grill over medium heat, turning often. Cook approx. 30 minutes or just until breast is done. Do not overcook as meat will get tough. Serve over seasoned rice with a steamed veggie. EXCELLENT! A Family Favorite around the Jones' house!
Hey Jim, Goose hunting has been awesome this late season. Geese are hanging around late this year. Very educated and wise. The custom windsocks work great. We have been using a 3 group triangle decoy setup that is working great. We put the point of the triangle down wind with about 18 bigfoots. We hide in this group. We set up about 24 bigfoots in each of the other 2 groups(upwind). We add about 50 of your custom windsocks to these 2 groups. All the geese are looking at are the groups with the movement not the point group. THey set in to the moving decoys and have to pass over us about 20 feet up. The call is not as effective right now. Simple blurps and clucks only. Without the windsocks it would be a bust. The other nite we tried the spread with out the windsocks and had trouble getting the birds to commit past the 75 yard range. Wind is suppose to blow out of NW 15-20 mph on Saturday. Should make the socks move great. Once again realistic movement is the key. All the local goose hunters around here do not use any windsocks. The only movement they get is with the flag and the geese have figured that trick out. I have to go scout and find a field for tommorrow. Later, Chuck Kodet New Ulm, MN Jim: Season's Greetings from Iowa...I guess I should have said the frozen tundra of Central Iowa. Wow! I gotta tell you this about your mallards...I've field hunted mallards for years and have used most decoys out there..the old mallard Northwinds (unrealistic appearance) , G&H shells (too time consuming to set up), Outlaw silhouettes (good visibility but still one dimensional), etc. etc. This season was the first though for using the 13 Jim Jones mallards with heads in my spread. Gotta love 'em!! On days with wind, we'd usually set up with 80+ field mallard dekes just up wind of the pits about 20 yards and placed your baker's dozen in a sweet spot directly downwind or right amidst the blinds. Birds would stack up like O'Hare Airport in Chicago just to get down into your windsocks. Similar to what you described in your email. Unbelievable! But the quality of hunts, close shots, and opportunities to "just plain watch the birds" work your decoys was breath-taking at times. Guaranteed that after the holidays, I will be starting to save for more of the mallards. (I would eventually like to replace all my field mallard decoys with your custom windsocks.) Your dekes get birds! THANKS! Jim Bonwell Des Moines, IA Hi Jim, I just wanted to tell you that we have had three good seasons in a row with your Custom windsocks, so much so that we put away 95% of our old decoys. The remaining 5% is just to hide our gear under. We feel that the movement in the Custom decoys is invaluable and the geese really like them. The first season we mixed the windsocks to add movement to the spread and it worked great but it took a long time to set up. We then tried just using the Prairie Windsocks and, "wow", it was no stopping the birds from coming right in. Decoying Snows was always hard but not anymore. We have had extremely good response from Snows, Honkers, and Specks coming into the windsocks. The other good things about the decoys are the ease of setting up, their compactability, and the time saved. Thank you for the extra hour sleep every morning and the extra trailer space. Thanks for making a decoy that has it all. Art Stanman Sherman Oaks, CA Jim, First I would like to say that your decoys are truly deadly!! The second and most important thing I would like to say is that the customer service you provide is top notch. You have been very helpful and honest and have been there to answer any questions I've had. I thank you again. Well a little about your custom Canada socks. I had great results with them this past season and the movement they provided was deadly on those late season honkers. They mixed well with my bigfoots and l think they made the difference this season on a couple of hunts. One of my most memorable hunts was in January towards the end of the Ks season when Me and 3 friends limited on Canada's and got 3 bands out of 1 flock. The geese were just drawn to the socks like magnets. Also I hunted with your custom Snow, Blue, and Juvie socks this past season. At first we were mixing them with shells, full-bodies, or silo's and having marginal success. Well the weather was kind of screwy this spring but I have to say it was my best year ever. Finally on the last couple days of the big push we went with an all custom spread of northwinds and let me tell you it was awesome. The birds would be way up in the air and just spiral down into the decoys for easy shots. Nothing like the 50-yard shots I was used to with the rags during previous seasons. Needless to say we have sold all the shells and silo's and I will be ordering more of your custom socks. Keep up the hard work and thanks again for a great product. Ryan Houser Parker, CO Jim, I want to Thank You, Howard, Rosie and Mr. Jones for taking Gary and I with you on the most fantastic hunting adventure of my life. I have had the great privilege of hunting and guiding some of the greatest sportsman in the world on various hunting and fishing trips. I have never spent time in the field with any finer sportsman than you and Howard! I also enjoyed meeting all the other hunters you introduced me to. Your dedication to the hunt, the laws and the resource are what all other sportsman should strive to achieve in the field. The equipment, knowledge of the area and methods you shared with us were nearly unbelievable and will remain a closely guarded secret with me. What I will share is that the sillosock snow goose, blue goose, hardcore and tricked out custom windsocks decoy spread we hunted over enabled us to successfully deploy, decoy and gun wary late season snow geese. Like yourself I have made, experimented with or used nearly every brand of decoy ever made. In my opinion your products are the best money can buy and if you don't have it , I don't need it. I look forward to hunting with you again and consider it a great privilege to even be invited to hunt with your team. As we have discussed I plan to sell most of my other decoys, I have a whole barn full of them and need the new windsock support system, some new heads and some duck decoys which I will be ordering in the near future. I tried opening the customprariewinddecoy price list last night and couldn't get it open on my computer, I'll keep trying. Your Friend, Mike Lessard Yoder, WY P.S. For anybody that might read this, if you are ever in Casper, Wyoming you would be well advised to stop by Jim's home and visit with him and see for yourself what he is working on if you're a waterfowl hunter. He forgot more about decoys etc. than most of us will ever know. You won't regret it.