To want to find a pâté that does not contain pork??

[DistressedAndAlarmed]

I used to love eating pâté but I haven't eaten pork for the past 10 years. I've trawled far and wide but simply cannot find any that don't contain pork as one of the main ingredients. It doesn't matter whether it's pork, duck, chicken flavour, they all have pork fat.

Defeated and dejected I decided to just buy the salmon one from Aldi. Salmon being a poor substitute to the meat ones and I wasn't too happy. Anyhoo, was just about to slather it on some toast when I thought I'd read the label... bloody pork! In a FISH pâté!

Why why why?

I'm going to have to make my own aren't I?

Thank you Marmite - you have my sympathy as well as my congratulations.

Funny - when DS was on the way, and he's thirty next month, nobody told DW to lay off the liver!

its very easy to make own now so yes - do it.

Congratulations marmite

What about duck or goose rillette? I know it's not the same as liver but it's nice and gamey.

Love the waitrose pate and im not vega. Never seen pork in pate maybe looking in wrong places..

I bought some smoked salmon pate in Lidl today. It definitely doesn't contain pork. The smoked duck pate that I also bought does though.

Petula Her Pesach chopped liver was just about the only thing that made me tolerate my late MIL!

Easy chicken liver pate

1lb chicken livers
7oz butter
2fl oz double cream
1small onion
1tbsp sherry.
Freshly ground salt & pepper

1. Fry the butter, livers & onions until cooked through.
2. Zuzz the above with a handblender & add the sherry, cream, salt & pepper.
3. (It is delicious at this stage with bread dipped into it.) Put into a naice dish & chill, for a good few hours.
4. Ta Daaaaa!

marmite sorry about that (who knew?). Roll on the big day...

and at my typo. CHOPPED liver.

The Rannoch smoked duck up thread is lush. -'And dairy free so I can stuff my face--

You can get 450g of frozen chicken livers at Sainsbury's for about 60p.

Roast them in the oven until done. Fry some chopped onions in schmaltz (chicken fat). Hard boil two eggs.
Mash the liver up with some schmaltz using a fork, until well mashed, then add in the onions and chopped egg. Voila, just like grandma used to make.

Local turkish supermarket does kg tubs of chicken liver. I might get some and make a liver strogonov and plenty left over for some pate

Marmite are chicken livers also full of Vit A? I thought it was just pork, beef and lamb liver.

Hand held blender for £5, Delias chicken liver pate revipe. Super easy, and blummin cheap too. Seriously excellent value

If you wanted to be adventurous you could try ragondin -
you can buy it one line or on a visit to France.

www.produitsregionaux-maraispoitevin.com/terrines-rillettes/pate-de-ragondin-4

can I ask, why no pork?

I don't eat pork. I feel sqeamish eating such an intelligent animal. Tbh I'm becoming squeamish about eating the dim ones too and might be about to turn vegetarian again.

Not keen on caged salmon either. 1000s of fish thrashing around in cages when their natural atavistic instinct is telling them to swim the Atlantic.

I fond it quite offensive that you choose which animals to eat based on how clever you think they might be. Like its ok to eat the dim ones but not the ones who can, what? count or something? Weird.

Plus the pork-worms thing hasn't been true in decades.

I know you've been shown lots of pate now but may I suggest the chicken liver pate from Cook?

It is delicious, no nasty ingredients and keeps in the freezer for ages.

I make my own pate because it's so easy and cheap but this is far better.

grocklebox Have you spent any time around pigs or sheep ?

yes. Your point is....?

Ok maybe I went a bit overboard. I'm happy now anyway.

Pigs display an intelligence which sheep do not. It feels wrong to me to eat them, to be accurate even more wrong than eating other animals, which I rarely do.

I'm not sure why you're making such an issue of it.

I've just checked Ocado, and there is a brand called Findlaters whose duck liver pate and chicken liver pate do not contain pork. Waitroses own duck liver pate does not, but the chicken liver one does.

I'm sure I could find more, if I kept going.

grockle yes I feel it is very different. I feel that some animals are here to provide food and others are here to serve other purposes. The same reason why I think eating cats and dogs is wrong because I see them as companions. I couldn't get that same bond from a cow or a sheep.

Thanks Sanity, I now know that I should have checked the posh shops.

That's the first time I've ever been in Waitrose.

What is the purpose of a pig, if not to be eaten? Just curious...