CHICORY AND LENTILS
post title that seems to be a film of Toto!
free afternoon today, spent between the end of "Death follows the Magi" by Hans Tuzzi and maintaining one of those meals that warm the heart on a cold day in February. Just finished the last page, are already in withdrawal symptoms. Tuzzi moves in a Milan of the eighties, completely foreign to the "Milano to drink." Is fueled by artistic and literary quotations that have nothing to "read", but instead present fully embedded in a narrative that runs through the world of art collecting. The Commissioner Melis Milan is a city and gloomy painful, softened by regret for the protagonist's old restaurants with home cooking and the lost splendor of the palaces Umbertine, now colonized by the new financial powers. The plot is solid, the characters believable and well delineated. Yellow is an excuse to talk about other things, but stand up to the end and goes to a gallery of emotions and genuine poetry.
close the last page and I say, and now what? Are orphaned again, as every time I finish a powerful book leaves more questions than answers and suggestions. Hans Bravissimo!
to ward off the anxiety, I invent a dinner that warms the limbs and heart. I received a gift of a bag of lentils regardless of S. Stefano di Sessanio: people who love the genre, he knows that they are "the" lentils, then, get set, go!
A nice fry onions should be done as it should, following the dictates of Allan Bay: almost an hour of slow cooking with a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to defeat the tough fiber of the onion and turn it into a soft, sweet mass translucent . I added half a bottle of tomato sauce but good quality industrial and chopped rosemary, sage and fresh thyme (blessed garden!), Salt and pepper and, finally, the proud, tiny rusty lentils (250 grams) hot water to reach a very soupy consistency, and then to cook slowly half-way. After another hour (to peek past the first pages of the next literary adventure), and the soup is cooked. The rest, searching through the shelves of the refrigerator another idea to complete the dinner. Two heads of radicchio, gorgonzola and walnuts: there is not much reason for a dish that, with so little, it becomes almost opulent. The clumps and divide them into two browned in a pan for a few minutes with a little olive oil and a nibble of salt, softens gorgonzola (must be sweet and not spicy to dampen the bitterness of the radicchio) and reduces the walnuts coarsely . I then seared radicchio in a baking dish, the stuffing with plenty of blue cheese, buried under the ribs of the vegetables and sprinkle with crushed walnut, a little oil and go in the oven to 160 degrees, covered with a sheet of parchment paper.
I spent twenty minutes I spend in order to continue reading "The prompter," the first substantial work of Carroll, which a colleague told me a lot of good. Dinner
no smell of vegetables and flavors are simple but well-defined, as the night drew up a blue blanket of dirty snow still on the roads.
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