Food post! Kind of.
I love to cook. And eat. So whenever I get a chance to try something high end, I go for it. (I'm still waiting to try foie gras!!!)
There's this nice 'European' bistro round the corner from us and I went there for lunch one day and ordered the prosciutto and asparagus pizza. Drizzled with white truffle oil.
The pizza was amazing and I was trying to discern what exactly this elusive white truffle tasted like.
I've always heard of truffles being the essence of everything delectable in the food world. But they're notoriously expensive. They are basically mushrooms that are only found by special truffle-sniffing pigs and some dogs. They are mostly in France and Italy, and come in black or white. (Oregon now has it's own harvest, too.) Because of their rarity, difficulty to locate and the fact that they are impossible to grow, this causes the market rate to skyrocket. The diamond of the food world, in a sense.
Well anywho, I wanted to reconstruct this 'za at home, so I ended up buying some white truffle oil from the grocery store. It's not even real truffle oil, it's something like the 'essence' or scent of the truffles infused in the oil. But when I opened that little ($15) bottle, I could tell it was definitely truffle-fied.
I can't really describe the smell-it's earthy and mushroomy. The taste is basically the same as the smell.
Yesterday I had a cheese sample that was studded with black truffles. It was disgusting!!!! Like raw mushrooms with this pungent smell.
Then I figured out that truffles kind of smell like bad morning breath.
There's this nice 'European' bistro round the corner from us and I went there for lunch one day and ordered the prosciutto and asparagus pizza. Drizzled with white truffle oil.
The pizza was amazing and I was trying to discern what exactly this elusive white truffle tasted like.
I've always heard of truffles being the essence of everything delectable in the food world. But they're notoriously expensive. They are basically mushrooms that are only found by special truffle-sniffing pigs and some dogs. They are mostly in France and Italy, and come in black or white. (Oregon now has it's own harvest, too.) Because of their rarity, difficulty to locate and the fact that they are impossible to grow, this causes the market rate to skyrocket. The diamond of the food world, in a sense.
Well anywho, I wanted to reconstruct this 'za at home, so I ended up buying some white truffle oil from the grocery store. It's not even real truffle oil, it's something like the 'essence' or scent of the truffles infused in the oil. But when I opened that little ($15) bottle, I could tell it was definitely truffle-fied.
I can't really describe the smell-it's earthy and mushroomy. The taste is basically the same as the smell.
Yesterday I had a cheese sample that was studded with black truffles. It was disgusting!!!! Like raw mushrooms with this pungent smell.
Then I figured out that truffles kind of smell like bad morning breath.