Tag Archive for '2010'
New Year’s Eve 2010
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Featuring a Venetian-Style Menu with two seatings… |
We’re not done yet…
Truffle Report #5 – It’s HUGE
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Here it is, our 604 gram truffle. Found in the south of Tuscany, near Chiusi. This truffle had been missed by two hunters earlier, but then found by a dog named Jeny. And, to my great honor… |
2010 Truffle Menu Finalized
Oliveto Truffle Dinners 2010
November 17 – 20
Antipasti and Salads
Polenta crostini with duck livers, wild snails, and chanterelle mushrooms
Chilled salad of smoked wild sturgeon, Mediterranean mussels, root vegetables, and black truffles
Poached salted farm egg with cardoons, celery, shaved porcini mushrooms, and fonduta Valdostana
Violino di Chiavenna e salsiccia Vicentina cruda: prosciutto of Watson Farm lamb seasoned [...]
Truffle Report #4 – Time To Get Serious
Truffle Report #2: Pass the Ginkgo Biloba
Market Report #13 – ….more tomatoes!
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Last week, after the Derby Street market, Megan from Dirty Girl Produce in Santa Cruz stopped by with a delivery of Early Girl tomatoes, Cranberry beans, and Cannellini beans. She had some soup… |
Beef Dinner Sneak Peek
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With a wealth of knowledge in regards to butchery, aging and cooking technique, Oliveto embarks on our first Beef Dinner. The menu is still being finalized, but two items have been leaked:… |
Tomato Dinners 2010 Menu
September 15 – September 18
Smaller items–salads, soup, antipasti
Best-of-season heirloom tomato tasting
Smoked sea scallops and king salmon with Black Pineapple tomato mousse
Crudo of local halibut, Evergreen and Cherokee Chocolate tomatoes,
candied bacon, and Espelette pepper maionese
Oliveto wild boar prosciutto with Pineapple and Momotaro tomatoes,
wild arugula, and Parmesan
Dry-farmed Early Girl and Persimmon tomatoes with burrata, sea salt,
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