Holiday Dinner in the Pearl

This is what I had for dinner last night. Doesn't it look tasty? Roasted goose breast with porcini dumplings, goose fat roasted greens with wild mushroom cream sauce and lingonberry jam... Yum! Honestly I can't figure out which part was my favorite. I really love greens and greens roasted with goose fat are amazing. The porcini dumplings are heavenly dipped in the mushroom cream sauce. I'd never had goose before, but figured if I was ever going to try it now was the time. No one but Gilt was going to prepare the goose with such expert hands. It was rich, almost like steak; the steakiest poultry I've ever had. The flavor circle was completed when each bite was accompanied with a little bit of the lingonberry jam. If this sounds enticing to you I urge you to get to Gilt soon. This is part of a special Christmas Goose Dinner running now through the 30th of this month. All items are available a la cart or prix fixe for all four courses. :

First
Goose and duck terrine with pistachios, roasted chestnuts, buttered potatoes, greens beans and truffle jus
Second
Warm goose confit and giblet salad with walnuts, frisee, pears, oil cured olives and walnut dressing
Third
Roasted goose breast with porcini dumplings, goose fat roasted greens with wild mushroom cream sauce and lingonberry jam
Fourth
A choice from our lovely dessert menu

A nice wine pairing with the goose breast and dumplings would be a Côtes du Rhône, such as a glass of '06 Chapoutier “Belleruche”.

And since we're talking Christmas here, how about a wintery cocktail? Our seasonal right now is the Non-Coffee, Coffee drink - Chai liquer, Kahlua & brandy
with whip cream - hot in a snifter $7.5 w/coffee $8.5.