Comments on: Surf, Turf & Sky a la Marketman

By: millet

millet — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:28:04 +0000

mmmm….this meal is after my heart…seriously..and both literally and figuratively! i agree with flip4ever…”surf & turf” is too trite and ordinary for a super-duper meal like this!

By: tings

tings — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:36:56 +0000

Oh Connie, that’s really cool! I haven’t tried foie gras because of my love for animals, though I am not a vegan. I hope more people will try the faux gras (even the name is cool) instead of the real ones. Not to say that I don’t drool just by looking at picture above, and that I wasn’t tempted to try foie gras a million times before, but I hope we can find a way where we can enjoy food with a happy conscience! :D

By: connie

connie — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:17:07 +0000

I was watching the Food Network the other day and the show I was watching delved on the controvery of foie gras. As more and more cities here in the US are prohibiting the production of foie gras, and restaurants heavily fined for defying the prohibitions, some chefs have actually tried to make their own foie gras, calling it faux gras. I thought that was a cool name. The process doesn’t involve force feeding ducks to get that enlarged liver. One chef actually even used chicken livers. I’ve been looking for the recipe but have yet to find it. From what I can remember, they used butter, sauteed some onions, added cream and loads of butter into it. Blended the butter mixture with chicken livers (with the sinewy bits removed). The mixture was then strained for smoother consistency, placed in small round baking dishes and placed in a hot bath in the oven for an hour.
If only I could find the right amount of cream, butter and chicken livers to use for the recipe. I would like to try that.

BTW, MM, I think I just had an embolism from reading that dinner. LOL

By: Katrina

Katrina — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:40:16 +0000

It might be true that meal like this would send me to an early grave…but at least I’d be grinning in my coffin!

By: Apicio

Apicio — Sun, 13 May 2007 04:28:19 +0000

Ummm… and what did they wash it down with?

By: flip4ever

flip4ever — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:32:10 +0000

“Surf & Turf” is an over-used marketing and promo slogan by the chain restaurants here…such an elegant meal as you’ve presented deserves a more elegant name…for newly-weds maybe “Marriage of earth, sea and sky”; or for Mother’s day – “Mother earth, sea and sky”; or something to that effect.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:48:05 +0000

Itâ€™s a major league dinner and you are a shining star with your host and hostess, dinner guests and your readers! You solved the mystery of perfect foie gras. Was light flour dusting of the foie gras the secret to perfection?

By: edee

edee — Sat, 12 May 2007 23:06:06 +0000

wow, i love foie gras and steak…i’m drooling now…..how long do you put the steak in an oven if you want it to be medium rare?…i haven’t done it yet, i just always pan fried mine…..this meal is perfect for us, my hubby loves your crabcake recipe and as i’ve said i love your main course :)