Six Course Meal

[davidn]

For the last night of the year, Whitney's family are taking us out to an Italian place in nearby Oakland. Even after looking at the online menu I'm not sure what the set dinner is, but I've done my best with it:

Piedmontese Menu
To Begin: Affetato misto of Oliveto salumi: violino di Chiavenna, bresaola, salame cruda, with Fresh porcini Mushroom conserva	To Begin Affectionate... gaseous salami with olives? Violin of something Women's undergarments Salami not-very-good with fresh pork and mushroom jam?
Antipasto: Winter Root Vegetables, Artichokes & Herbs with castelmagno Cheese	At a walking pace Fairly self-explanatory, though I'm not sure what it really all is
Intermezzo: Italian Chestnut and grappa vellutata "Cappucino" with Wild Mushroom duxelles	Bridge Italian Chestnut and... fat grapes in swirly coffee Wild Mushroom small ducks
Primo: Agnolotti dal plin of Magruder Ranch vitello with White Truffle Butter (or of Bellwether Farm Sheep's Milk ricotta and Parmesan )	Really fast and loud Hmm. Stuck-together on a table Magruder Ranch... small musical instrument, with the taste of money
Secondo: Magruder Ranch Wild Boar: Spit-roasted Loin and Belly, Shoulder Braised with gigante Beans, and polpettini with Wild Mushrooms or Local Petrale Sole Stuffed with White Shrimp and Hazelnuts with Wild Nettles (Vegetarian entree also available)	Repeat from first verse This one's in English and I'm actually really looking forward to it. It has... enormous beans and... small potted plants with wild mushrooms Or! Sole in Italian car fuel, with... wild nettles? Miserable vegetarians.
Dolce: Chocolate Amaretto Bonet	Softly Who cares, it has chocolate in it

Comments

[ethelfleda.livejournal.com]

I think it's a chocolate hat, which is good as it means more chocolate.

[quadralien.livejournal.com]

Who cares, it has chocolate in it? Er, I fear that would be me. :P

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

They like their mushrooms, don't they? Porcini is a type of posh mushroom - although the jam part sounds hideous - and I'm pretty sure that gigante beans are what it sounds like, but I'm completely lost on the rest of it.

[davidn]

It actually turned out to be a sort of chocolate jelly, surrounded by cherry sauce, with flakes of chocolate with gold painted on them. It was very weird.

[davidn]

The gigante beans were, indeed, gigante. The mushrooms were quite nice, too - I had the plate of meat at the start to myself as I went with four vegetarians.

[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

I was going through that (with my reasonable knowledge of italian menus) and just thinking "wrong... wrong... wrong..." until my brain kicked in and you were being funny.

This is too fucking early. And it's 10am. And I'm at work.

[davidn]

To be honest, that sounds more like a failure of the post than anything else :) But working on New Year's Day... that's just wrong!

I do know some very limited Italian, just because of the musical terms that I had to learn growing up - it allowed me to recognize that "Dolce" literally translated as "Sweet", at least.

[kytheraen.livejournal.com]

Bunging it through babelfish doesn't make it make any more sense. :P