Friday, February 28, 2003
Herpes Or Pilonial Cyst?
The torpedo Como
sturgeon except, you know what is the biggest fish that swims in inland waters in Europe? If you are not aware, I say us, is the catfish (Silurus glanis), up to 3 meters long, equipped with distinctive wattles.
If we talk about here, the shrewd reader will think, there must be a torpedo of culinary uses. And if many people, inspired by current entries, Pescioni believe that this is not edible, we have preferred to see for themselves. And the surprise we had to Swirl , restaurant Mandello Lario (province of Lecco, via Provinciale 165 loc. Olcio, tel. 0341732546, closes on Sunday evening and Monday, accepts all credit cards, the Reservations are strongly recommended) , Favor treated in strict family by spouses Fasoli. While the head is in the room to take care of the service and wines (often aided by his son Richard, called Curly), it is the lady in the kitchen, without any intrusion, to prepare for no more than 25-30 guests one of the finest Lake Como experiments in an area far from stingy .
Sitting in one of two beautiful rooms, choose a wine with a remarkable paper and light meals and inviting, the result of the review of local cuisine lakeside.
First, there is a menu of the lake at 50 € (prepared for the whole table), which includes spiral of catfish in sweet and sour (here it is, the light balls!), Noodles with char, black olives and tomatoes, white wine to whitefish, pike and lentils with coriander, a dessert choice and coffee. Or if you are at least two and amuse you with a single dish, friendly, there is padelada of the lake, the first book, a sort of interpretation of Manzoni's paella Valenciana, lake fish and rice provided pilaff yellow.
If you prefer the other, there is a la carte menu, almost exclusively fish. You can start with the salad of smoked eel and spicy blue cheese (tasty and substantial, increasingly intriguing with a drop of that oil that the owner draws from his olive trees here in Olcio), or the marinated trout with chives, or even with the bowl of fish sauce, red pepper.
Among the former, he amazed us missultàa the simple goodness of spaghetti, that is, with sauce or missoltino missultin, the agony of the lake put out to dry ( mis sut ul tin): a modern and traditional, full of charm. Noteworthy too is the soup Como, or the buckwheat pancakes and whitefish with cream of broccoli.
as the main course, our torpedo Here comes again, brought in pieces on a bed of cabbage and mustard: very good, with a great white from Alto Adige. If you prefer, you can taste but also very typical perch golden thyme, char with saffron, or if carnivores with a vengeance, the lamb chops with herbs. Sweets excellent, headed by closing clamps 300. You'll spend
between 40 and 45 €, with happiness.
(Free, Thursday, February 27, 2003, page 29)
Thursday, February 27, 2003
What Should Be The Bilirubin Level At 8 Days Old
Bitto, magnuca
and platter from which we are admirers of the cheese world and the microcosm of the Valtellina, we could not fall in love dairy products of our valley. There are perhaps thousands
cheese coloring the map of our country, and a variety that competes vigorously with the one fielded by our cousins \u200b\u200bacross the Alps. Lombardy it is a good illustration: we have so much blue cheese (with a specification too broad) as the Taleggio cheese (as above), so the provolone of the Po Valley as the goat of the Brianza Como, I formed the de mut, the strachitund, not to mention the immense bagoss.
And we said, we have the cheese of Valtellina, consumed locally but elsewhere increasingly popular, and even in Switzerland - where I also go crazy for the local wine Sassella -. The bigwig has always bitto, produced exclusively in the summer, he sees a small amount of goat milk to join the brown Alpine cows. Only instead of cow's milk is another great champion, the dairy: both can withstand prolonged seasoning, and give tasty morsels and spicy to taste a glass of effort. If
on other occasions we rightly extolled the legendary shop in Morbegno Ciapponi, today we want to point out the excellent work of thirty years has held the Dairy Delebio Valtellina (Sondrio, Via Stelvio 139, tel. 0342685368) . There are about one hundred farmers give their cows' milk in this cooperative, so the work comes from their wide range of cheese, the dairy in this country: the entrance to the Valley.
We like to point out the first platter, that soft cheese that is part of the family scimude and with excellent value for money, we also find it on the counter of our supermarkets is a cheese soft, the white rind, fresh and pleasant in its simplicity.
The presence of greater prestige, however, is that of Bitto, aged 70 days and produced in the mountains with all the trappings of tradition. Very good is also the dairy, premiered at Milan's Salone dei Sapori 2001, rich and sweet, less blood cousin but very rich and personal. Also interesting are the
magnuca (or magnocca) Valchiavenna semi-cooked cheese, very similar to casolet; Delebio and dairy, a little 'the designer of the product.
To return to the softer cheeses, in addition to the platter you can taste the scimud very classic, soft white cheese and typical of these cliffs, or the Bormio, small formaggella original, as the name implies, the upper valley, or yet another formaggella springs, baitel. They also
simple ricotta and salt and a small selection of goat cheeses, including the formaggella is worth mentioning, the flat, the log and the Matusch (mixed cattle and goat to semi-hard).
Free, Wednesday, February 26, 2003)
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Normal Heamatocrit Dogs
Our afternoon saw a visit by Emilio Bolciaghi , excellent butcher in that of Magenta. The purpose of the irruption: procure a piece of beautiful bacon in white wine, a favorite of ours ever.
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Wedding Rsvp Card Wording Dietary Requirement
Friday, March 7, 2003 all 'Antica Osteria di Scarpet Gialdi (Cassano Magnano-VA-, Mazzei street 10, tel. 0331282325) , the undersigned will present and taste a variety of wines offered in conjunction with a sra dinner whose proceeds go entirely to the Association of Volunteers in International Service. During dinner, speak to a manager AVSI a brief testimony.
The dinner, which costs € 60, will be structured as follows:
- slices of swordfish flavored with lemon
quiche - ham mousse Sardinian pigeon
Podere Saulino Gavi DOCG 2001 (The Saulino, Novi Ligure)
- black spots salmon with radicchio drawstring
Costa Giulia 2001 (Michele Satta, Castagneto Carducci)
- Suede jugged with polenta
Knight 1999 (Michele Satta, Castagneto Carducci)
- Baked Hot Chocolate sauce on mirror English
Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC Ramandolo 2000 (Giovanni Dri)
flock. Meanwhile, I take this opportunity to point out the nice site Paul Meneghin and the Papillon Club Rovigo .
Monday, February 24, 2003
Gpsphone Cheats Eingeben
While I still have not written new articles, you propina my personal ranking of dessert wines and meditation, the type of wine that more to my taste:
1. Alto Adige Gewürztraminer raisin Terminum 1999 (Manufacturers Termeno).
2. Acininobili 1999 (Fausto Maculan).
3. Alto Adige Bianco Passito Comtess' Sanct Valentin 2000 (Manufacturers San Michele Appiano).
4. Tal Luc 1999 (Lis Neris)
5. Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit Rosazzo Reserve 1998 (Livio Felluga)
to propose only five hours there, very limited selection.
I take this opportunity to revive an old review of Passito Terminum, and to again thank the great Willi Sturz for their work.
In Alto Adige a great past
In spite of some extraordinary exploits in the field of Pinot Nero, Alto Adige, in the collective imagination as much in real life, contend that the land remains in the palm of his vocation for Friuli white wines Italian. Whether from international grapes such as Pinot Blanc, the gray, Chardonnay and Sauvignon, or Gewürztraminer or from the more traditional crossings like Kerner, Alto Adige whites are able to compete with the best international standards.
The competition is even fiercer since then the producers have decided to use the types and Passito Late Harvest, in the specification of the DOC Alto Adige wines sorties are able to match (or exceed) the best Picolit.
One such example, the Passito Terminum Gewürztraminer, which, after the first interim harvest, is increasingly emerging as the masterpiece of Willi Sturz, kellermeister of Winery Tramin (Province of Bolzano, Strada del Vino 122, tel. 0471-860126) . The South Tyrolean
aromatic grape lends itself, with its thick skins, withering and noble rot. The year 1999, the paper less favorable than the sensational 1998 has produced a wine of great impact, which also exerts its attraction to the eye, with its warm and welcoming color of old gold.
The scents are true symphony of subtlety and persistence, with notes of grape varieties that tend to turn to the yellow fruit in tropical and infinite nuances. The mouth is a sweetness almost explosive, with a good acidity that fatness, avoiding the risk of ambush stucchevolezza, you become a smiling sun and sensuality. Add an unparalleled finesse and persistence on the edge of reality and draw conclusions.
(Available February 2002)
Sunday, February 23, 2003
Fotos Da Mulheres Nuas
With this post I officially start my journal publications on food and wine online, which collects as leaving my interviews and reviews that I realize for the newspaper Libero, the weekly Life, periodicals and The Papillon Italian Sommeliers (official organ of the Italian Sommeliers). Their
trait d'union is the discussion of good things, restaurants, wines.
I hope you enjoy reading.
It 's the heir of the noble Nebbiolo Barolo
Admittedly, we speak almost in awe of Barolo. We followed
always escape the controversy that accompanied a tad sterile in recent years the existence of the eldest son of this noble Nebbiolo: fights rough, vehement between opposing factions of tenants of different intentions.
On the one hand, supporters of a new way of seeing the Barolo (especially Elio Altare) the other, the standard bearers of tradition, vinification of Nebbiolo according to the school of the fathers (Bartolo Mascarello). I really do not care who wins, because there is no doubt excellent Barolo made by both schools, as there are poor in both groups, either through an excess of modernity and barrel, casks want to old, decrepit and too " traditional. " Just
between traditional Barolo to be found bottles of 1996 vintage that, unlike the noble, concentrated wonderful 1997, gave the most suitable austere tannins producers of the old guard, authors of large bottles.
truly royal is Barolo Riserva 1996 Falletto of Bruno Giacosa Neive (province of Cuneo, Via XX Settembre 52, tel.017367027) , a large, wily old man who knows better than fifty years of his pockets the Secrets of Nebbiolo. Besides the great Barbaresco, Barolo is, therefore, to remember this, a native of a mythical crus in Serralunga d'Alba. Matured in barrels for four years, is a wine of terrifying power but haughty and intriguing, intense garnet color that does not leave any doubt of identity. Speaks to the nostrils of violet, dried rose, incense, tar and black cherry in alcohol, while in the mouth gives us a sip rich, smooth and wide as the scent, simply imperial. A wonderful wine on jugged hare or civet, the pheasant, on plates of appropriate lineage.
(Free, Saturday, February 22, 2003, page 12)
ERRATA: Barolo is the date of the article on February 22, 2003, not 2002 as erroneously written.
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