Community Tasting Note

mjnickel wrote:

Saturday, April 7, 2012 - So, last month when I was in San Francisco, I walked over to North Beach for dinner where a very nice Italian man served me a plate of fettuccini with the meat from braised short ribs. That meal was so good that I'm now Catholic. Incidentally, I also gave up Protestantism for Lent.

Tongiht, I attempted to recreate that meal in my own kitchen, and while I wasn't as successful as the professional chef who learned his trade in Italy, I was extremely successful for a man from Tennessee who owns a .38 Special album. What you see here is pasta with shredded short ribs braised for three hours in beef stock, tomatoes, onions, carrots and various aromatics. And get this...there's grated chocolate on top. Yeah, I know, crazy, right?

The wine is so-so. Burnello should be more complex than this...or at least more flavorful. This is Sangiovese treated more like Chianti than Brunello, but still not bad. If I could figure out how to drink wine while lying down, I'd take a glass into the back yard and enjoy it in the hammock (Allow me another aside: "Enjoy it in the Hammock" is the title of a straight to VHS movie I made in the late 80s. I needed the money and placed too much trust into mustachioed gentleman who paid me $35.00 to feature in it. You can find it in the back room of your neighborhood video store we're all pretending still exists for the sake of this joke).

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