Lucchese Meals

As you saw in the last post, I've got everything outside my door. With access to great product, of course I'm gonna cook. Here's a sampling of what I was cooking at home.

Enjoy the slide show!

Gnocchi with Lemon and Parmigiano

Homemade Beef tartare

Cantucci with chocolate

Greens and Chicory for sauté

All these greens were put into a large pan with water, a splash of wine, hot chili, garlic, onions, broccoli rabe, treviso, and lettuce. They sat in a pan for probably 30 minutes cooking on low heat

Bone In Veal Chop

From the butcher next door. 

Pan cooked veal chop and wilted greens

A mid-day lunch, because I'm not eating this meal at 10pm.

Veal Chop close up

I pan fried this chop in butter, shallow small pan and allowed to rest after cooking with fresh butter and salt. The greens are a mixture of broccoli rabe, treviso, garlic, green onion, and mixed lettuce

Lucchese Salumi Dinner

Local Proscuitto, mortadella with pistachio, finochionna salami, sheep's milk cheese and bread

Lucchese Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Sheep's milk cheese and some of my favorite bread, the native yeast multigrain bread

Cream Puffs

These were awesome for dessert

Treviso and Onions

My base for the pasta I made for lunch

Penne with treviso, onions and mortadella

A simple afternoon lunch at home

First night in Lucca

Big salad, Salumi as big as your head, cheese, and local wine.

Leftover greens and eggs

Frittata. Great way to use up some of the things I have in the kitchen and it feeds me for several days

Finished Frittata

My favorite bread, a cross section

Nutella on Toast

A breakfast staple in Lucca and Oakland

Veal bone broth and corn bread focaccia

Remember that veal chop? I boiled my scraps, added some wine, garlic and reduced. 

Chicken with fennel and carrots, braised in red wine

Big fat steak and Brussels sprouts