Month: April 2011

Dinner at Pane Bianco

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My new favorite salad: housemade mozzarella, warm fava beans, sautéd spinach, speck, warm toasted bread with olive oil. I’m in love. Can you crave something you just ate? I’m already jonesing for a fix.

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Veg roasted in the wood oven. Sweet potato, peas, squash, carrots, garlic, cauliflower. Delicious, love the smoky flavor and a little char from the wood oven, but needed a dash more salt for my taste.

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Crepes with oven roasted tomatoes and ricotta. This dish didn’t do anything for me. It was a good dish and came out burn-my-mouth hot, I just was underwhelmed after the amazing fava bean salad.

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My second favorite dish of the evening. Schreiner’s sausage on top of wood oven charred green onions and a large dollop of creamy polenta.

Stay away from the crepes and you’ll score.

Triumphant Eats Tonight

I’m deeply in love with the process of creating a dish. Experimenting with flavors, techniques, equipment, colors, texture. The evolution of old recipes into something new. Mistakes are necessary because they always produce a new understanding of the an ingredient or it’s interaction with another. Working. Reworking. Editing. Adjusting. Tinkering. Tweaking. Ideas from notebook to plate. Always a little different, but often for the result of a better dish. Frustration is sometimes inevitable.

Family and friends gathered for Easter dinner is the perfect time for a classic and a new experiment. Feedback is honest. Crust scraps are cleaned off plates by the coffee sipping grazers.

Failures are eaten with as much gusto as successes, perhaps though, lacking a feeling of triumph.

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