Truffled Pizza! Sounds delicious doesn’t it, well it is absolutely marvelous.

Pizzeria Arlequino and Restaurant Bottega, both very dear clients of ours, generously shared pictures and recipe of the same creation but off course both with their own twist.

Pizzeria Arlequino Pizza

Ingredients:

• Mozzarella fior di latte
• Egg
• Truffle Carpaccio

BOTTEGA’S RECIPE:

Restaurant Bottega's Pizza

Ingredients:

• Mozarella fior di latte
• Parmigiano-Reggiano
• Egg
• Truffle Carpaccio
• Fresh basil.

Both recipes are amazing in different ways.

If you get the chance to try either one of them, let me know I would love to hear your thoughts.

Hope this week was a good one for all of you.

TRUFFLE & EGG CROSTINI

We have a family country house on lake Massawippi, in the Eastern Townships and it is now the second generation of Macchi boys ( our children, Paolo’s and Mine) making noise in the area.

Growing up, Paolo spent every weekend and holiday in the country with his family, therefor it’s very important for him to do the same with our children since he has such great memories from there.

This past weekend, was the Annual Village Fair , we all went there just like we’ve done every year and Paolo has done at least for the past 25 years!

Every year is the same thing; you have the rides, the games, the petting zoo, the barns with cows and horses, competition of who has grown the largest vegetable and not to forget the horse race, my favorite part!

After we got home we gave the kids a bath, fed them and put them to bed.

And then it was our turn to eat =), we had some close friends of ours coming over, opened a bottle of wine and then Paolo was in charge!

Eggs and truffles have always been a match made in heaven!

Here is how Paolo spoiled us with this absolutely delicious snack.

EGG & TRUFFLE CROSTINI

• Simply slice some bread,
• Spread some truffle paste
• Add sliced hard boiled eggs
• Garnish with some truffle carpaccio
• Sprinkle some chives for color and taste.

Buon Appetitio!

Macchi Inc.'s Truffle Carpaccio - Photos by Montreal Photographer Vadim Daniel

I am, and have been on vacation, in the Quebec Eastern Townships ( Canton L’Est ) since wednesday.

Spending quality time with close friends and family, over many good meals, makes you realize that to accomplish a successfull dinner; everything matters!

We put together some recipes that we had made before and to our surprise they tasted different and we also enjoyed them in a much different way, and the fact that there was a very appreciative audience to feed our egos made the experience even better =).

Which brings us to this week’s product: Truffle Carppacio; my little sheets of silk.

It is made from summer truffles, covered with sunflower oil in a jar. A traditional Umbrian recipe; pasteurized in it’s natural juices, no preservatives or artificial colorings, chilled and then sliced paper thin.

I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!

It makes it so convenient to spoil yourself or your guests any time.

As I gently pluck them out, one by one from the jar, so that they wont rip or tear, the scent and aromas simply hypnotizes me but in difference from the fresh product, it is very subtle.

The texture due to being soaked in oil, is very silky and gentle on the palate and no matter what dish or product you end up topping with the truffled carpaccio, you do end up spoiling it very generously.

In case you didn’t know, carpaccio in Italian means when something is served raw and is thinly sliced or pounded.

We started carrying the truffle carpaccio about two years ago, as an addition to our truffled products that we offer at Macchi Inc. It is for us and our clients a fairly new product and we have not had the time to market this product properly yet.

Therefor, this is one of the few products we carry, that you can buy directly from us as a private person, since we do not have any retail stores purchasing it from us yet.

What is the difference between our brand and other brands?

Jarred truffle carpaccio, can be purchase in stores, but it’s not “ours”.

If it’s on the shelves and sold in the stores it can’t be bad!

But just like everything else; quality has it’s price!

Stay tuned for some Tips & Tricks tomorrow and pictures of how we spoiled our guests with truffle carpaccio on Wednesday.

Wishing you a great week!