wednesday lunch 02/06

Pasta lunch and that means homemade bread. Today we baked Saffron Bread. The colour, texture and flavour of this bread was beautiful.  We made Tomato and Bocconcini Salad which was very popular so popular we ran out and had
to put out last nights mixed greens salad for the last folks to eat. The Pasta Boscaiola tasted quite good. I soaked porcini mushrooms and sundried tomatoes overnight and sliced them into bite size pieces. i sauteed them with lots of garlic, crimini mushrooms and onion. I then deglazed the pan with red wine. Into the mix went fresh oregano, basil and parsley.  I tossed the works with four pasta shapes and some extra olive oil. I topped it all off with freshly grated parmesan cheese and basil leaves.
Pictured above is today's version of the Fruit Salad. The salad is garnished with fresh mint.