Last Saturday,
Burgh Gourmand,
Señorita Cibulka, and I went food shopping in the Strip District and then cooked dinner at home. Well...BG did all the cooking; I was responsible for supplying two bottles of wine and
Jeni's ice cream. I thought I'd share some photos from our meal.
BG started with the veggies, roasting some red peppers directly on my stovetop. Can't say I've ever done that before. Luckily, my house didn't burn down...
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| Roasting red peppers |
The peppers were then chopped and cooked along with some zucchini and yellow squash.
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| Cooking veggies |
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| Final product |
For the main course, BG had picked up some
Pasta Setaro brand manfredi pasta from the
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company. Pasta Setaro is imported from Torre Annunziata in Napoli, Italy, The manfredi pasta is about a foot long and looks like ribbons or the edges of lasagna, and is very high-quality. I think it was about 10-12 minutes to al dente.
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| Pasta Setaro's Manfredi from Penn Mac |
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| Pasta Setaro's Manfredi from Penn Mac |
BG also got us some lobster tails from
Wholey's. They came from Canada, just like me. ;)
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| Lobster tail from Wholey's |
He cooked the lobster in garlic-infused olive oil and butter. To infuse the olive oil with garlic, first crush several cloves of garlic and cook in olive oil until fragrant. Then, remove the garlic cloves.
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| Lobster |
Then, chopped Calabrese Salame were added:
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| Lobster and Calabrese Salame |
Finally, he tossed everything together, topped it with some shaved parmesan cheese and voila! Dinner is ready:
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| Manfredi with Lobster Tail and Calabrese Salame |
It was a delicious and fun dinner, made even more fun with some Chianti imported from Tuscany, Winter Pear wine from Heritage Wine Cellars in North East, PA, and Nebbiolo ice wine from Breaux Vineyards in Purcellville, VA, which BG picked up the previous week when he was in the DC area. Dessert was supposed to be pistachio baklava from the
Pittsburgh Public Market and my freezer-full of Jeni's ice cream, but we were so full that only BG partook in my last pint of Buttercup Pumpkin and Amaretti Cookies ice cream. I did eat the baklava the next day though, and it was oh so yummy! Thanks again for a great meal!
