Halloween in Italy

Nov 2, 2015 | Food and wine | 2 comments

Chiusi is one of these typical hilltop towns in the South Tuscany, on the Umbria/Tuscany border. It used to be an Etruscan city.
Chiusi overlooks the valley of Valdichiana. Chiana used to be a side river of the Tiber. Lake Chiusi and Lake Montepulciano are two important wetlands close to Chiusi. The lakes are wonderful. This area attracts many tourists for a scroll along the lake, a bike tour or just a picknick.

Along the lakes you find good restaurants, one of them is restaurant Pesce d’Oro. Here you can eat local fish dishes. I’ve been there a couple of times for dinner and loved it!

Yesterday we had a Halloween dinner here. The menu featured a four course menu with local fish and pumpkin:
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Antipasto (appetizer): Barattolino saporito di cicerchia e anguilla con insalata tiepida di farro e bocconcini di tinca affumicata
– Eel served in a sauce of warm grass pea combined with farro salad and smoked tench
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Primo piatto (pasta): Tagliolini al carbone con guazzetto di tinca e crema di zucca e funghi
– Black (coal) tagliolini served with pumpkin cream, mushrooms and stewed tench
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Secondo piatto (main dish): filetto di boccalone in crosta di patate
-Boccalone (typical white fish from the Lake Chiusi) served in a potato crust

Dolce (dessert): Tortino tiepido di noci con gelato di zucca
– A nut pastry and pumpkin ice cream
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We combined the four course menu with a good local white wine, and for the dessert the owner of the restaurant suggested us to drink a digestive sweet wine of Piemonte: Brachetto d’Acqui. Awesome.

– post by Sylvia van der Male –

2 Comments

  1. Eliza Waters

    Looks delicious – love the little pumpkin ice cream!

    Reply
    • villainumbria

      Yes me too! Besides the lovely face on the pumpkin ice cream, it was delicious as well 🙂

      Reply

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