Just puree a pound of chicken livers with a cup of butter and
save yourself fifty bucks!

You're talking like someone who has had pate
de foie gras and not the foie gras itself.

I have had foie gras in the past, although not lately. And it was

I spoke mostly in jest; back in my day, when
you say a thing is "like" something, it means
that it's not that something. If I said, as
I would to some here, that you spoke AS someone
who had never tasted the stuff, that would mean
that I was accusing you of never having had the
experience.

truly wonderful. I may have exaggerated somewhat about the chicken
livers but still enriching chicken livers with additional fat yields something quite tasty, even if they're not quite in the same league.

Poultry fat is of course the best enricher
of poultry liver, with butter or lard tagging
along behind. I've had pate made with cream
cheese, too, and even it is okay.

Next week Lilli and I are going to have our
blowout Christmas meal at Yan Toh Heen, where
we have preordered a crispy squab, the roast
suckling pig platter, and pan-seared Wagyu
with duck liver in spicy sauce. I presume that
the duck liver is foie gras. I'll report back
whether it is or not.

I often do Jewish style chopped liver and then press it into a ball
with mayonnaise which is another way to enrich the dish, with oil
and egg yolk.

I do it that way every few months and use
the schmaltz from rendered chicken thigh
skin and twice as much onion as any normal
recipe calls for. Also a maximum of one
egg, more likely half or none.

Title: Episcopalian Chopped Liver
6 Whole eggs
1/2 lb Bacon; finely chopped
2 lg Yellow onion; minced
1 lb Chicken livers
Chives; garnish
Peg's Notes: I add a dollop of butter and, since I had some,
freshly rendered chicken fat, to the above ingredients.

That's a bizarre amount of eggs. Also, there's
one important ingredient missing - the Scotch.
What's an Anglican bridge party? Four
Episcopalians and a fifth.

... Cocktails are dangerous; they taste like juice & then you can't walk

Witty but, again, not quite true.

--mm
Cocotini
cat: booze, hotel
servings: 1

4 1/2 oz Malibu Coconut Rum
3 oz Sprite
splash of grenadine

Shake together everything except grenadine. Pour into
large martini glass. Top with grenadine.

Coconut Waikiki Hotel, served Thursday evenings from 5-6
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