We are crazy about pâté. As unhealthy as it is being laden with fat and cholesterol…sometimes it is totally necessary to dive in. You know, on those trying days. Those days when you finally get the kids to sleep and just want something a little extra special to erase the stress of say a defiant […]
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Smoked Trout Pâté
The other day we were given several pieces of local trout. We decided to smoke them and create a wonderful trout pate. Starting with the whole fish, we filleted it removing all the tiny pin bones. The fish was then brined in a salt and brown sugar solution for a few hours. […]
Duck Liver Pate Meatballs
So every now and then something incredible happens. We have been so busy. Getting a food blog done each night has been a bit of a stretch this last week and today we were feeling fairly tapped out….and then as if it were meant to be….inspiration! One of us is a huge (HUGE) […]
Duck Liver Pate
One of our most prized cooking books is The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson. Although this is not always practical as butchers have already removed much of the offal, we have found that if we buy a whole duck it will generally include neck and giblets. Personally, I do not […]