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Happy Thanksgiving All!

May you and yours have a wonderful day - and stuff yourself silly!

 

Enjoy the madness of the sales!!... some start today!!

A feast for the eyes and palate!!

The wedding breakfast was held at Già Sotto l'Arco a beautiful Michelin starred restaurant in Carovigno - which is about 50km away from Bari.

Every course you got fresh silver etc, and it WAS silver too.   The meal was just beautiful.   Both in presentation and in taste.   So you can see each course we had - and look at the menu - and they should correspond.     They very first line of the menu means the little nibbles on the side plates that you can see in the table setting photo,  that they kept bringing around.   It was bread, hard pretzel sort of things, and little hot bread things filled with either spinach (I think) or ham.

Then it leads into the first photo.. the burrata cheese covered in pastry strings, which was so yummy.    It is a kind of mozzarella cheese with a creamy middle - to DIE for!   The sundried tomato was the best ever, and the capicola (ham) I think I could get addicted to. 

Then it was the asparagus cake served with the mortadella sauce, and the crispy bacon on the spaghetti skewer!   I think that was almost my favourite course - I could have eaten a plateful of those.    The pasta course was yummo too and stuffed with eggplant and potato and served with a thyme and parmesan sauce.

I add here - with each course we were getting a different wine, we had started with champagne - and it was quite warm in the restaurant - I admit halfway through - with all the food, the heat and the wine - I felt a bit flushed!     The good thing was - each course was nicely sized - so although we were filling up - we did not feel overstuffed!   Plus it was not being rushed at us - we had a bit of a gap between each course.

Then it was on to the risotto with vegetables and the big fat shrimp.   Needless to say Mike inherited my shrimp!   That was followed by the fish - a local species (which I ate!!! and actually it was lovely) wrapped in bacon with the veges, potato and I think it was an olive kind of sauce - I can't remember now - I know it was not pesto.    To cleanse the palate we then had the lemon sorbet which was so so yum.

The only thing we forgot to take a photo of was the piglet (Maialino da latte etc)  - which was the main course, sort of.   Although the fish course was pretty much a main course too!   Shame really as it was beautifully presented too and lovely to eat!  It was a pork chop - although an odd cut - almost like a pork rib - very tender though and it came with roast potato and an onion marmalade (which I could happily eat a whole bowl of).

We had quite  a big break then - well 20 mins I guess, before we did the cheese plate - oh my god those cheeses were to die for.   All made locally, all freshly made, and just yummo.   Normally I am not a huge fan of gorgonzola but that one... I would have liked to have made off with a wheel of it to bring home.   The orange stuff on the side was made with rind and it was sort of crystallised and runny all at once.  Almost like eating an orange version of honeycomb.

Then because wedding cake would not be enough - then we got the pastries YUMMY - then the wedding cake - all washed down with the very very drinkable dessert wine.

All in all - BEYOND fabulous!
 

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this has to be the coolest ad I have EVER seen!

and yes a blow by blow of our trip is coming - I played a bit of catch up yesterday and today am going through the photos and sorting them out - and hope to post some more today and tomorrow.

And yes Rach - we are already back - you know us international jetsetters - fly into Italy - go to a wedding and fly back *LOL*