Tuesday Night at Tr. Nostrani

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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Last night we decided to go to dinner at Trattoria Nostrani. We arrived for our 6pm reservation and were seated at our usual table. We started with a bottle of San Pellegrino while we were deciding on our first wine and our appetizers. We ordered a 2005 Marcarini Barbera d’Alba ‘Ciabot Camerano’ - bright spicy red fruit, with good acidity, and a medium long spicy fruit finish. It was quite tasty with our appetizers of Caprese - heirloom tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, basil, and EVOO for Carollee; while I had an eggplant fritella - deep-fried eggplant rolls stuffed with a ricotta - aged provolone mixture on a bed of deep-fried zucchini.

For mid-course we both had a delightful foie gras flan with grilled peaches, very rich and flavorful and enjoyed with a 375ml bottle of 2005 Rôumiére-Lacoste Sauternes - light, not too sweet, just right for the rich flan and peaches.

Then for mains we shared a very nice prime 18oz rib-eye on sautéed zucchini with a very nice 1993 Serégo Aligheri Vaio Amaron - an Amarone sort of half-way between modern and traditional in style, and very good with the steak.

Finally for dessert Carollee had a cookie plate with an espresso, while I had their trio of semifreddos, vanilla, caramel, and chocolate. All was enjoyed with the end of the Sauternes and a couple glasses of a nice 2005 Antinori Vin Santo.

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Dick, this sounds like a lovely meal. Am I doing the math right, though-- 2.5 bottles plus a couple of glasses of Vin Santo? I love the idea of it, but I’d be the smiley to the right… [drinkers.gif]

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Years of practice, and we live less than two miles from there. And it was almost four hours of dining.

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lightweight. [d_training.gif]