What could be better than having a birthday dinner with friends? For me, only a home cooked meal with friends on your birthday. Prosecco and C (C—I'm officially giving you the blog name: Risotto) invited fusilli and I to the villa for an extravagant meal with fine wine, fine dining and even finer company.
To start we had pork lard on fresh toasted bread... yeah, I ate that so fast, no time to take pictures. Next, melon wrapped prosciutto and a delicious frittata. It was tough, but I was careful not to fill up, I could see at least three more courses waiting in the wings.
Risotto made an excellent, well... risotto. The incredible colour is from the beets.
Another favorite — Osso bucco. 
I hope I get this right... chocolate peanut butter bacon pie, with candied bacon on top. Insane? Yes. Delicous? If you like choco-peanut-bacon pie... YES! This wins for the most unusual dessert I've ever had.
Showing posts with label Pie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pie. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Happy Birthday!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Hybernation food
Is it just me or does anyone else like hybernating these days? Between the cold weather and the troubled economic times it seemed easier to stay in for dinner on saturday night, although I did reluctantly end up venturing out to Ted's on College street for an apres-dinner drink.
I intended to keep this mushroom barley pie vegetarian, but when I was at St. Lawrence Market on Friday afternoon, I spied some Berkshire bacon and couldn't help but toss in a few slices. I can never say no to bacon. Sorry, vegetarians.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Elderberries
My gram and I used to make elderberry pie so when I saw them at Herrle's, I had to buy them. It has probably been 20 years since I last ate them and they're delicious! Kind of like a really strong blueberry.
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