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(con)Fusion Cuisine

Posted on 2006/06/07 10:41:50 (June 2006).

[6th June 2006]

Today the Antichrist is born, at least watching and listening to the news that in a very Christian country like Italy seem to have popped out a bit everywhere. Today is also the anniversary of the first year of this very Blog, so in a way I feel strictly related to this AntiChrist story and I will probably be murdered by the church secret service, or some Opus Dei fanatic.

The day went past quite quickly, there are a lot of things that I cannot write about at the moment, hopefully I will be able to break the news soon, but not now.

In the evening we set up a true effort of Fusion Cuisine. It all started 2 months ago when Cristina, a friend here from Vedano, complained that I never cooked a Japanese curry for her. Of course the trip to Asia served quite well to get all the necessary ingredients, so we decided to call a communal dinner today. Paola, Linda and Bogio, the two Alessandri (Alessandra and Alessandro), Cristina and Little Marta were the guests of choice of what become a true fusion experiment.

We started with a fennel, orange and lard salad, served on typical Japanese plates (rectangular shaped).

We then moved to other two starters, the celery with cheese, chestnuts and paprika and the little courgettes baskets with carrots and tomatoes. Some sliced salami was also served.

Then the main Japanese curry (with compulsory Japanese rice that I bought there!!), served in a Moroccan bowl.

To cap it all off a nice watermelon and typical italian gelato.

The dinner featured one of my finest wines, a bottle that I bought in France almost 1 year ago, a Chateou Prevost (Bordeaux) which proved marvellous for the task. Very mellow, not so strong like other Bordeaux, flowery and destructured, it spoused immensely well with the potatoes, celery and curry taste. The only bottle of the night went down in a second, so I used another classic, a Giordano from the north of Italy, Barbera. This one was a bit disappointing, too spicy, but that's what I had in hand!

Anyways a dinner with Japanese, African, Italian influences cannot be considered normal, it's (con)Fusion all over the way!

Comment 1

I can not express how hungry I am now!! That was a superb meal Lox! Your guests were very fortunate! Splendid!

Posted by Nigel at 2006/06/07 11:39:20.

Comment 2

"a lot of things that I cannot write about at the moment"

Mmmm. Let me guess. Maria is pregnant! Or is it Giovana? ... or... could it be...... Noooooo, you're not gonna get married, are you?! Don't do that, my friend, don't do that!

Posted by Sheri at 2006/06/07 21:07:11.

Comment 3

Do not worry it is nothing marriage or babies related.... I will write something soon about it... maybe even today,..

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/08 08:31:42.

Comment 4

Just a little thing to say: it was not only Lorenzo to cook all the mervellous dinner.....let's say that we prapared it together or that Lorenzo is the "CURRY MAGICIAN" and I took care of all the other plates....