Good Fine Dining

[DoctorHurricane2003]

What's the best fine dining experience you've had?

Mine was last night! After graduation, my family and I went to Jackson's in downtown Pensacola and it was SO GOOD. I tried several things for the first time....Foie Gras (by the way, one ounce of foie gras has about 10,000 cal!).....Char-Grilled Lamb with a garlic-butter sauce, goat cheese stuffed tomatoes, and Crème Brulée (yummy!). Besides that, the entrée came with mashed potatoes, asparagus, and stuffed artichoke.

I'm kind of sad that I didn't get my summer vegetable rolls with the different sauces though :\ .

[southerngale]

One ounce has 10,000 CALORIES?

How is that possible? If I ever eat anything with that many calories, just shoot me on the spot. lol


I'm glad you enjoyed your nice meal though.

[GalvestonDuck]

Do ya know how they make foie gras?

[southerngale]

Do ya know how they make foie gras?

If that was meant for me, not exactly. But I think that you have to die to make it.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

yes yes I found out after I ate it...lol

and the way the guy made it sound...I was suppose to put it on the fruit and eat it (bad idea)...took me a while to get it on the garlic toast. I enjoyed the taste with the garlic toast, but the texture is simply something thats hard to get over. lol

[GalvestonDuck]

Do ya know how they make foie gras?

If that was meant for me, not exactly. But I think that you have to die to make it.

Sorry, Kel...actually it was meant for DH.

You guys know I'm not a big animal rights PETA person or anything. And apparently, how they produce foie gras isn't painful or cruel to the ducks or geese. But it is banned in some countries and I can't help but think that it sounds pretty rough if they've banned it in the UK and at least 15 other countries. Besides, this is ducks were talking about. Hello?

Foie gras means "fat liver" in French (another reason not to eat it...it's French, although it is also produced here in the US in California and New York). Ah-nold recently signed a law banning foie gras made by the "traditional" method.

Birds don't have a gag reflex and can swallow their food whole. They're able to store it within their esophaguses as it slowly moves through to their stomachs and gets digested. Doing this helps the birds store fat in their bodies, including the liver, for the winter for warmth. In the production of foie gras, corn is forced through a tube inserted down the bird's esophagus. This overfeeding is what the French call "finition d'engraissement," which means "completion of the fattening process." So, this overfattening of the liver is what gives it a smoother, buttery consistency...a delicacy known as foie gras.

Here's an article about the California ban, set to go into effect in 2012.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

wow I thought they just took the liver out...

[gtalum]

One ounce has 10,000 CALORIES?

I'm guessing that was an exaggeration.

For a reference, one pound of fat has about 3500 calories.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

Its supposed to be concentrated and not all fat, because the liver supposedly has more.

[GalvestonDuck]

Its supposed to be concentrated and not all fat, because the liver supposedly has more.

From what I could find and depending upon how it is prepared, foie gras is anywhere from 100 to 150 calories per teaspoon and 85-87% of the calories come from fat.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

ah it must be in how they prepared it, because the waiter openly told us how many calories were in it.