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.
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Showing posts with label risotto. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Happy Birthday!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Favourite
No doubt about it, that headline is spelled for Cupcake, our favourite neighbour to the South.
Speaking of favourite, my mom had a colonoscopy today and she was quite hungry by dinnertime so I made her favourite shrimp risotto. Also starring fennel, carrot and tarragon. It's a normal risotto recipe except that I saute the shrimp in garlic first and add them back in at the end. Another secret is a high shrimp to rice ratio.
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