sushi vs ming

lemon

mushrooms

This wasn't a great year for mushrooms here in Italy.
And this just makes me crave for mushrooms right now. Ceps, if possible. Thanks.

Ceps have the finest flavour. They had their worldwide spread when Parisiens started appreciating these mushrooms in the late 19th century thanks to Alcide Bonton, Cafè Anglais' chef, who put them into the menu and made 'em a vogue must for gourmet cooking.

brunch

I didn't remember how a chilling way of passing sundaytime brunch is.
Sunday is no more a melancholy and ugly day .

the soup

Someone made a soup with potatoes, pumpkin, lentils, a little water, salt, rosemary, laurel and sage.
It was very good.

The following dinner they made the soup again, but decided to add black cabbage and a little more water.
It was quite good, but not so good as the dinner before.

The day after, someone had an idea for dinner: "let's make soup!". They put the same quantity of water as the first evening, but kept the cabbage and switched lentils with barley.
The soup was disgusting.

Lesson: if you make a good soup, don't change the recipe.

aromatic liquors

I know.
Gin is made with juniper berry.





Genepì is instead an italian spirit from Valle d'Aosta made with an aromatic plant named genepì.

overseas fishes

A man, reporting his trip in Hungary, told me about poor people's way of cooking fish in gourmet style: they flay (I don't know what kind of) fish, mix its flesh up with egg and vegetables, put this filling again in the skin, and slice it like a salami.
This man also told me about a fish they often cook in that region: it's called lucioperca, and, when baked, it incurvates like an ark.

Another overweight man told me about his trip: he went in Benin for work, in a hinterland zone, far away from the sea and whatever water source, but during a work dinner they served just one dish: fishes' heads. Everybody there was so satisfied and kept ravening the head, but he couldn't even touch it. Bwleah.

let's eat

Hello.
This is my own deli and this is the food I like.






Please enjoy my Spaghetti alla Carbonara,

The Bismark pizza, with cooked ham and egg, and a fresh beer,

 Homemade tiramisù

and last but not least, the delicious raspberry panna cotta.











Hope you are full and, oh gosh, you like eggs.