week five: cooking Sicilian, with a Tuscan twist...

9 October 2009
Cooking again :)
Really? What’s a better way to spend a venerdi notte in Tuscany than cooking Sicilian food? Haha… L’s family is from Sicilia, so K and I asked if we could cook some of her fav dishes (much to the utter disgust of F, the proud Florentine :p)…
So, K and I met L at the CONAD around 4.30 to pick up everything we’d need for the night… fresh food (free of all 800 of my allergens, lol) and wine… it was nice, a quiet girls’ evening (F wanted to have no part of it, so he stayed late at school… though did show up just in time to eat everything… hmmm… haha) of cooking and conversation…
The menu is as follows:
Fennel, carrot, and grapefruit salad (self explanatory, si?)Bucatini all’Amatricana ( hey, some things are worth the Benadryl… and wow, I could eat this every day!!)Chicken Marsala (with fresh mushrooms and porcini stock and real marsala wine straight from Sicilia?? Ummm… yes, heaven.)Zucotto (it’s Italian ice cream cake – for adults… no cooking required, but be careful with this one… that red isn’t a syrup… it’s Alchermes!!)Wow… we had so many leftovers K and I probably won’t need to cook til Monday… and we have bunches of leftover ingredients, which means I get to cook even more :)
Between this and the puccini playing in the background, i was basically in heaven...