Italian Tasting & Food

I've decided that perhaps I should post about my wine tasting sessions as well to keep track of the wines my kakis and I have tasted. After all, when there's wine, you'll always find food. ;)

Most of us are not too familiar with Italian varietals, thus to match up with the Italian theme, I made some pasta with porcini mushrooms dressed with white truffle oil.

I used dried porcini mushrooms, fried with chopped garlic. Next I chopped up some english parsley and tossed it all in with olive oil and about 20ml of white truffle oil. Seasoned with sea salt and freshly grounded pepper. I find the flavours lacking, perhaps I'll add in a portion of fresh porcini in future if I make this again.

I also made a 40 cloves Garlic Roasted Chicken. Halve 2 bulbs of garlic and stuff into cavity of chicken, brush with softened butter all over chicken. Season with salt and pepper (cavity as well). Roast chicken in a pre-heated oven at 220C for about 15 mins, remove and add the vegetables and remaining garlic cloves (with peel on). Place 2 knobs of butter on the vegetables and continue to roast for about 1 hour.

Now here comes the bottled participants. :)

The Masi was my favourite for the evening. :)