Eat This Immediately: Foie gras scrapple at Silk City

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Eat This Immediately: Foie gras scrapple at Silk City

POSTED: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:29 PM
Filed Under: Eat This Immediately
Photo l Felicia D'Ambrosio

Waldemar "Val" Stryjewski is a meat man.� Since he arrived at Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) as sous chef, he's been turning out house-made charcuterie like the tender pork sausage that graces the diner's overloaded brunch plates every Saturday and Sunday.� That piggy blend is now a crucial ingredient in what Stryjewski posits is the only foie gras scrapple in existence.

"I did some research," he deadpans. "I couldn't find anything like it, anywhere."� Stryjewski makes a straightforward smoked sausage out of mostly pork butt and belly, then blends it with diced foie to form the signature scrapple loaf.� Slices are fried to create a crisp exterior, concealing the melting, delicate liver inside.

If anything called scrapple could qualify as light and ethereal, this is it.� The sweetness of the foie unfolds on your tongue, with the pomegranate seeds scattered over an accompanying root vegetable hash and a tart cranberry compote providing contrast.� The foie gras scrapple is available as a composed plate with that root veg hash and sunny-side up eggs for $11, or single ($5) or double ($10) slices available a la carte, every Saturday and Sunday at brunch, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Eat This Immediately.


hk
Posted 2009-11-25 11:12:32
Whoa.. sounds like a dream come true

Emerald City
Posted 2009-11-24 23:34:09
Val is the one of the most innovative chefs in Philly.

I gain 3 pounds just looking in his general direction.



Still waiting for some polish sausage empanadas..

or maybe black bean piroguis..?

I kid...



But seriously, the man knows food.

Foobooz » Light, Ethereal, Scrapple?
Posted 2009-11-24 11:15:16
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