After several days of eating out for dinner (mostly pizza...which was very good), I went to market this morning and found these tiny eggplants that were no bigger than my pinky. Intruiged, I bought some and decided to resume cooking dinner at home. First we had papa al pomodoro, the tomato and bread soup i've mentioend before...R's favorite. It is made by: saute garlic and onion in olive oil, add peeled and mushed up tomatoes, rosemary, sage, and simmer. Eventually, add cubes of day old bread and basil.
Papa al pomodoro looked like this:
The next course, pasta, was fresh tagliatelli tossed with sautted eggplant and zucchini in olive oil and pepper and parmesan. I guess this dish would be called Zuchhini Melazanine Tagliatelli (ZMT). ZMT looked like this:
Grated parmesano reggiano has been a pretty important ingredient in our food. The hunk of parmaggiano reggiano we bought is so big it nearly dwarfs our cheese grater:
Third course, meat, was a truffle sausage i picked up at market cooked in white wine with olives tomatoes and onion. While i continue to make really great tasting sausage dishes, they keep looking....not that appetizing. Unfortunately, the delicious sausage dish looked like this:
Finally, fourth course was cantucci and vin santo. Cantucci is a regional variation on biscotti, made with almonds and a little softer than biscotti. Vin santo is a tuscan desert wine that is made from dried grapes aged/fermented in chestnut barrels. This typical tuscan desert involves dunking the cantucci in the vin santo. Cantucci and vinsanto looked like this:
living in italy is such a great idea. i find these dinners you are making a lot more interesting than restaurant food. maybe zoom out on that sausage...
ReplyDeleteOh Mama MIa, everything is so mouth watering. I hope it is healthy also. You need to walk 10 miles everyday to get rid of calories and fat. Is it possible to rent an apartment for a week or two? How much does it cost in May ?
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