recipe for specklebelly

Here's a good one from Ville Platte:
Ingredients:
1 Specledbelly,plucked and whole
1 link good smoked sausage
1 med onion, diced
2 colves garlic.minced
1 apple,cored and diced fine
salt,blck and red pepper
Method:
Season the bird liberally with salt,red and black pepper. Heat 4 T oil in a dutch oven and brown the bird well on all sides over medium heat.Remove the bird and add onions to the pot and saute until translucent.Add the garlic and go another 2 minutes. Put the goose back in the pot, add the apple,a bit more salt and both peppers over the dish, and add 1/2 cup water or stock(just 1/2 cup, no more is needed). Add the sausage link, cover and place in the oven at 275 degrees for 2 and 1/2 hours or so.Serve with rice for the gravy.It's awesome.

I pretty much do this, but use bacon drippings for the oil, and no sausage.

Great use of the best waterfowl you gonna get, just a little bit better than a dutch oven full of greenwings

Now we are talking.

I absolutely love doing just that and having a late breakfast of that, grits and eggs.