It's a classic Escoffier recipe that dates back about a century and a half. I have not seen it on a restaurant menu since the early eighties; the last time was probably at Lutèce in NYC.

I looked it up - tournedos indeed. Although filet mignon is so lean so it’s only the foie gras that’s really heavy. The truffles sound nice.

No truffles (absolutely wasted on me as I don't have the scent receptors for them) or foie gras d'oie (or even canard) available locally so I had to use mushrooms and foie de cochon. Still have a lot left so either that or Beef Sroganoff for the rest of the meat.

Then again, I acquired ~10 lbs of short-dated pork back ribs (bit higher quality than generic supermarket - supposedly free from antibiotics and hormones) and a rack of lamb so have all that to chow down on.

Pork liver instead of foie gras in a tournedos rossini recipe? That's sacrilege.

Desperate times, desperate measures. Have to make do if you live out in the anglo sticks. I'd love to make the real recipe for many things, on the proviso of ingredient availability. At least we can get fresh duck parts here (yeah, even/only in the discount supermarket), even duck fat. Have to wait for a mark down so I can make confit legs or a magret (well, technically not because they're not from gavaged ducks).

Only time I've seen it (or what was passed off as it) was SQ back cabin in the early/mid '70s. Can't say I've ever seen it in a French restaurant even in France.

Well, it is illegal to sell foie gras in California, so I am not able to order it in a restaurant. I can however order it from an out of state supplier, such as D'Artagnan, and make it at home, however, I cook lighter and healthier food.

I was going to ask. Something Arnie signed into law IIRC?

Arnie or gray or Jerry brown. Someone. I now forget when I last had foie gras in CA.

Arugula with maple glazed walnuts, gorgonzola and a lemon vinagrette
Baked (actually nuked) sweet potato with butter and aleppo pepper
Grilled salmon (topped with pineapple, brown sugar, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and grilled en papilotte).

Pizza :)

Nothing, as I just don't feel like eating right now.

That photo looks too early for the asparagus. Even on charcoal, indirect heat for chicken thighs is a 40-45 minutes cook. Looks a bit too soon for direct heat for the bird.

Spaghetti with walnut/pumpkin seed pesto and sautéed proscuitto. Pesto was made yesterday with the basil plants that produced a huge amount of leaves this season.

Followed by rack of fresh NZ lamb (obtained real cheap) a la Provencal i.e., rosemary and garlic, olive oil), roasted home -grown potatoes , cremini mushrooms (obtained really, really cheap) and garlic, roasted home-grown tomatoes and faux scalloped potato (daikon). Wish the lamb was local as there are a lot of meat sheep farms locally in my municipality but due to regulations, all the local meat ends up being frozen if the bears don't get the sheep first.

Signed into law by Schwarzenegger in October 2004 (source) and upheld by SCOTUS in 2017 (source).