I prefer cornish game hens or duck(ling) for special meals.
We do the game hens for Valentine’s but do the goose for Christmas. I only do it once a year and usually forget from year to year how to cook it. Julia Child is best for oven steaming goose (and her duck recipes are superb). I don’t know if you do wild game but one out of three wild geese is worth it. The farm geese have alot of fat (like the succulence of wild duck versus farm duck) but the favor is unparalleled.
I made Cornish game hens one year when there were just two of us for Thanksgiving, and they were delicious. I’ve cooked them fairly often since then. The trick is to keep basting them, like you would a turkey, so they remain moist on the inside and crispy on the outside. I always make a jalapeño-cranberry-cilantro relish to go with them.