You most definitely can. Also from here, here and here.
Plenty of gourmet shops and delicatessens who will post lobes of foie gras out to you as well.
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I was thinking of French suppliers who won't as it needs to be refrigerated. I hadn't even thought of getting it from someone in the UK.
Just looking quickly at prices there does seem to be a price premium from the UK sites...
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I went on a poultry course a few years ago and they told me that ducks naturally over eat unlike geese. So duck foie gras is much more likely to be ethical unlike geese which must be force fed to put on the fat in the liver. Faux gras is often duck to the best of my knowledge.
How has no-one commented on this?! Bar the apocalypse or some sort of horrific kidnapping/blackmail/SAW scenario, how would you ever find yourself in this situation?! Haha! 'I'll eat him but I won't enjoy it'. Crying, as you pick your teeth with an errant claw.
I don't mind brioche and I won't eat fioe gras, and your idea of overcoming this is for me to eat foie gras without brioche?
My parents live in the Dordogne and with my dad being french not liking it could be considered a crime in my household 
On a serious note I really do like it, warm toast, fig jam and some salt and pepper on the plate, sublime.
My dad has also started making some in his retirement. Getting better and better I have to say!
On a serious note I really do like it, warm toast, fig jam and some salt and pepper on the plate, sublime.
My dad has also started making some in his retirement. Getting better and better I have to say!
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I had some Foie Gras in a restaurant in Barcelona when I was on a course. I didn't pick it through choice, but the meal was paid for (gladly because it must have cost a fortune!) and consisted of about 12 courses, followed by a steak. Foie Gras was one of those courses, served on some kind of cracker with some raw sardines (or a salty fish of some kind) and I really liked it. I did understand that it's a food from dreadful circumstances when I ate it. I could live without it for the rest of my life, but it was nice.
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It's one of my favourite dishes/treats/foods. There will be some at Christmas (there always is for me). However, whenever I go to France or eat out (somewhere more upmarket) I always choose it. I'm a sucker for it. Love the stuff.
How has no-one commented on this?! Bar the apocalypse or some sort of horrific kidnapping/blackmail/SAW scenario, how would you ever find yourself in this situation?! Haha! 'I'll eat him but I won't enjoy it'. Crying, as you pick your teeth with an errant claw.
Tbh it's too ****ing nice - I wouldn't care thinking about it!
Which type would you prefer? Would you flash fry it, and how would you serve it? I ordered 200g of 'bloc'. I prefer duck, as it's slightly creamier and better value. I wouldn't flash fry bloc, I don't think.
Randomly found some bloke on eBay selling loads for not much as he's brough a shed load back from France. So assuming everything taste's good from my initial sample, I'll be back for more
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Which type would you prefer? Would you flash fry it, and how would you serve it? I ordered 200g of 'bloc'. I prefer duck, as it's slightly creamier and better value. I wouldn't flash fry bloc, I don't think.
Randomly found some bloke on eBay selling loads for not much as he's brough a shed load back from France. So assuming everything taste's good from my initial sample, I'll be back for more
Would you mind linking me up? I just had a search but I think I'm a bit of an ebay noob these days
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Which type would you prefer? Would you flash fry it, and how would you serve it? I ordered 200g of 'bloc'. I prefer duck, as it's slightly creamier and better value. I wouldn't flash fry bloc, I don't think.
Randomly found some bloke on eBay selling loads for not much as he's brough a shed load back from France. So assuming everything taste's good from my initial sample, I'll be back for more
I've never had fried foie gras, whenever I've had it, it's always been cooked in a bain marie - or just shop bought ready to eat!
I've had baked foie gras before which was rather nice, but it was part of a dish rather than on it's ownWe tend to serve it with a chutney of some kind, and toasted brioche, with a couple of thin slices of it.
My aunt usually cooks it if we don't buy it - however, it's relatively easy to find in France.
I like both duck and goose.
A Lot of foie gras is cooked anyway already.
*mouth is watering*
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Would you mind linking me up? I just had a search but I think I'm a bit of an ebay noob these days
I ate this over the weekend, and it was a slightly 'harsher' taste than I remember it. Still very good, but not as good as the last time I had it (admittedly in Toulouse!).
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bloc-Foie...505&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1&sd=300813779336&
There was an episode of Gordon Ramsey's The F Word a few years ago where Janet Street Porter went to a farm that produced free range Foie Gras. Gordon agreed that if it won a blind taste in his restaurant, he would use it in all his restaurants, however it didn't and the typical produced Foie Gras won.
I try to eat ethically when possible, but I do let that slide for Foie Gras as it is so nice, but then I don't have it very often, where as chicken I eat every week.
I try to eat ethically when possible, but I do let that slide for Foie Gras as it is so nice, but then I don't have it very often, where as chicken I eat every week.
Haha. You couldn't be more wrong! The test was not for free range foie, but rather 'ethically produced' foie. That is to say the Geece were 'introduced' to the grain, and left to gorge themselves rather than being trapped and force fed grain where they couldn't move. This is certainly more ethically responsible in my mind.
The result was that Gordon couldn't tell the difference, so he put this 'faux gras' on the menu of all his restaurants.
Sorry, but I'm not wrong.
By 'Free Range' I meant that they were ethically produced, as by being allowed to roam around and eat when they want without being forced stuffed and kept locked in tiny cages is just that.
You are also wrong about the test. As I said, Gordon preferred the regular Foie Gras in the test, so unfortunately for Janet Street Porter, she failed to convince him to switch. I've also had Foie Gras in a couple of Ramsey's restaurants.
Went to The Square restaurant for lunch last Saturday, and the amuse bouche was Foie Gras mouse with a Parmesan foam on top. It was incredible, absolutely stunning.
I'll be looking to get some to have at Christmas too, so I'll check out those links above.
I'll be looking to get some to have at Christmas too, so I'll check out those links above
.You are right! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLsoQBmM1c
However, in the video, he does say that his Foie is 'half forced', so it is more ethical than 'full forced'. At no point is 'free range' mentioned, likely because when you get to michelin star foie gras level, it will all be free range