https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-261367 Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:16:09 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-261367 […] From the Italian book, the random recipe was a traditional Tuscan chestnut cake with rosemary, pinenuts, and raisins. I have reimagined this a couple of times over the years – the most successful being a chestnut strudel back in 2006. […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-188659 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:13:36 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-188659 […] Aires – Three years ago this last weekend we offered up a dinner in honor of the Palio, the annual horse race in Siena, with a menu of local favorites. This year, […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-851 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:40:21 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-851 […] Buenos Aires – A couple of weeks ago I posted about our dinner celebrating the opening of the Paliio. The pasta dish, a classic of Sienese cooking, was pici all’aglione, a very simple preparation in the final analysis – the pasta simply tossed with freshly sauteed breadcrumbs, garlic, hot peppers, and parsley. I had mentioned that my local pasta guy would only make me die-cut versions of pici, which, in reality, were just fat spaghetti – or bucatini. I wanted to get back to the pasta itself (the preparation is now something I’m making regularly, even with other pastas – it’s so simple and so good!) – and a couple of nights ago I decided to spend the evening making handrolled pici. It’s definitely an activity to plan when you have lots of time. […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-533 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:17:59 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060704/opening-night-of-the-palio#comment-533 […] Buenos Aires – Much as the Palio kicked off last week, a chance for much Italian regional pride and competition, the encierro kicked off yesterday, a chance for much idiocy and injury, as folks attempt to chase, be chased, and hopefully outrun, a bunch of stampeding cattle. My job isn’t to critique those folks who seem to get a thrill out of danger seeking and potential injury and/or death, but to somehow capture the moment on a dinner plate. Which basically means I do nothing but come up with some sort of inspiration and turn it into a menu. Then cook it. The encierro is set in Pamplona, a town in the Navarra region of Spain, so the food of that region became the basis for my plan. A half dozen folk came to last night’s Casa dinner, a shame for the half dozen who didn’t fill the empty seats, at least in my view! […]

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