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Serving Foie Gras At Home
Foie gras has a reputation for being fancy. Many don't understand what it is. When I served my dad a seared slice of foie gras, the liver of a fattened duck, he looked at it surprised. "I thought foie gras was pâté," he said. Often foie gras is made into a pâté, but not always. Foie gras can be sliced and seared in a very hot pan, no oil, crisp on the outside, molten within. It can be roasted whole. Or it can be made into a torchon as Bob del Grosso described on Monday, with a product he and Chef Pardus developed for Hudson Valley foie gras, and served cold. Either ...
Posted in Appetizers, Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, Donna Turner Ruhlman Photography Also tagged A Hunger Artist, Bob del Grosso, serving torchon at home, The Greenhouse Tavern, torchon Comments closed
The Birth of a Torchon
One of my favorite things on earth to eat is a well made foie gras torchon. It's a special preparation of foie gras, fat duck liver, that I first experienced at The French Laundry (the recipe is in The French Laundry Cookbook if you have it). It's a three day procedure and brings out the very best in the foie gras when done right. The duck liver is deveined, typically soaked in milk and salt to remove residual blood, then seasoned and, traditionally, rolled up in a kitchen towel (a torchon, in French), poached, rerolled to compact it and chilled. It's then eaten cold, a big fat slice of it, with some form of bread and a sweet-sour accompaniment. The biggest producer of foie gras in ...
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, Guest Post, Seasonings and Spices Also tagged A Hunger Artist, Bob del Grosso, Chef Pardus, foie gras, guest post, immersion circulator, sous vide, torchon Comments closed

















