{"id":759,"date":"2011-02-17T04:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T04:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-02-17T04:51:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T04:51:46","slug":"under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Tuscan Sun (at Land&#8217;s End)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-821\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3\/tuscan-table\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-821\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px;\" title=\"Tuscan table\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tuscan-table-e1297917152717-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Warm rays of sunshine, interlaced with the warmth of good friends, created the perfect ambience for this Tuscan-inspired luncheon. \u00a0We toasted our &#8220;salute&#8221; and long friendship with Prosecco while devouring our delicious appetizer. Chef Claudio&#8217;s recipe for Bresaola (an Italian air-cured beef,) stuffed with goat cheese, garlic and parsley, received a special ChezHelvetica touch with the addition of sweet mission figs. Fresh ciabatta and mixed olives accompanied this course as well as our entree.<\/p>\n<p>Fried asparagus wrapped with prosciutto (then quickly roasted) sided the new house favorite, Nude Gnocchi with a Butter Sage sauce. These pillowy Ricotta and Arugula dumplings melted in our mouths as we moved on to samplings of a Pinot Grigio and two different Italian red wines. Pellegrino helped balance our imbibing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Torta della Nona&#8221; or Grandmother&#8217;s Cake, a luscious custard filled tart with raisins and pine nuts, further sweetened the afternoon. And then there was Limoncello, the grand finale!<\/p>\n<p>NB: The resource for most ingredients used in this menu were from Cal-Mart.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-785\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3\/breseola1-8\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-785\" title=\"Breseola1\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Breseola18-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-792\" href=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3\/grandmas-pie-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-792\" title=\"Grandma's Pie\" src=\"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Grandmas-Pie2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Grandmas-Pie2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Grandmas-Pie2-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Grandmas-Pie2.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm rays of sunshine, interlaced with the warmth of good friends, created the perfect ambience for this Tuscan-inspired luncheon. \u00a0We toasted our &#8220;salute&#8221; and long friendship with Prosecco while devouring our delicious appetizer. Chef Claudio&#8217;s recipe for Bresaola (an Italian air-cured beef,) stuffed with goat cheese, garlic and parsley, received a special ChezHelvetica touch with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/under-the-tuscan-sun-at-lands-end-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Under the Tuscan Sun (at Land&#8217;s End)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[158,154],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-cal-mart","tag-chef-claudio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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