Whole Hog Dinners 2009

Tuesday, February 3rd – Friday, February 6th
Whole Hog Dinners begin this Tuesday. We’re pretty much booked for Thursday and Friday, but still have some reservations available Tuesday the 3rd and Wednesday the 4th. Saturday we’ll serve largely from the same menu, and reservations are still available.
Chef Canales has just about finalized the menu. So far, this is what we know:
Dry-Cured salumi
Soppressata, felino, Milano, finocchiona, vasca, salametto, nostrano, wild boar, crespone, piccante
Whole Cuts
Prosciutto, lonza, coppa, lardo, pancetta, salame cotto
Sweet salumi
Pâté capricciso, pork liver and sour cherry pâté, cicciolata, coppa di testa, mortadella
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Offal and End Cuts
Fried pork trotter and brains with creamy aged sherry vinegar & herb sauce
Terrina of pickled pork ears with horseradish, celery hearts, and frisée
Warm antipasto of pork tongue, artichokes, and aged balsamico
Fritto of pork tripe, sweet onions, and cardoons with meyer lemon and caper mayonnaise
Spiedino of pork liver and fresh pancetta with roasted beets and herbs
Salad of pork kidneys, watercress, celery, chopped egg, walnuts, and creamy balsamico
Bruschetta di milza or milzschittensuppe
Blood pudding with pickled sour cherries and pine nuts
Sbriciolona: traditional Tuscan-style wild fennel salsiccia cruda with lard piadina
Panzerotto of pork liver with Barhi dates and arugula
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Soup and Pasta
Pig’s Head and farro soup with citrus zest and true cinnamon
Mostaccioli with guanciale and pancetta ragù, aged provolone
Canederli: Friullian bread and pork dumplings with pork & date sugo
Gnocchi del Cosentino with little pork meatballs
Pappardelle nero with pork heart and wild mushroom ragù
Paccheroni with wild boar spezzatino
Spaghetti with pork coppa confit, Calabrian hot peppers, breadcrumbs, and oregano
Cannelloni alla bolognese
Mezzalune of Savoy cabbage and prosciutto cotto with sugo di maiale and draped with lardo
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Hot Specialties
Tofeja del Canavese: Piemontese peasant braise of pork shoulder, little cotechino sausages, wild boar spare ribs, and pork skin rollattini with Borlotti beans
Spit-roasted pork belly with Sicilian nero d’avola gelatina, chestnut honey, Castelvetrano olives, and almonds
Spit-roasted brined arista with pickled sour cherry and pork liver bread salsa
Wild boar scallopine alla Milanese with meyer lemon, fried capers, and arugula
Zampone braised in saba
Choucroute garni with spit-roasted pork “pastrami,” belly rib, and grilled classic frankfurter
Charcoal-grilled wild boar and wild fennel sausage with shaved fennel and blood oranges
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Vegetable Side Dishes
Roasted beets and blood oranges
Chicories with aceto balsamico
Polenta integrale
Garden lettuces vinaigrette
Potatoes fried in pork renderings
Shaved fennel & puntarella
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Sweets
Rosemary sorbetto
Chocolate-caramel tart with candied pancetta
Seville orange gelato
Warm apple crisp streudel with candied bacon bits
Blood orange marmalade crostata with white chocolate- cranberry gelato
Biscotti
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Reservations currently available at the following times:
Tuesday, February 3, and Wednesday, February 4, 2009
5:30 – 5:45 and 8:30 – 9:45
Saturday, February 7
(While not an official Whole Hog Dinner night, we plan to carry-over about 90% of the menu)
Reservations still available.
(510)547-5356
or reserve online at
www.oliveto.com
Oliveto
5655 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618




