Take a look around the corner...!: Food and Snow

Last week end we spent some days in Valle D'Aosta, a region in Italy at the border with France. It's a wonderful region surrounded by massive mountains. Locals are very happy this year because it started snowing really early, they said it's a winter like the ones they used to have in the past.
I must say, snow is really enjoyable, especially for those who like skiing.
Unfortunately I couldn't make it to go skiing but on Monday we went up toward the Gan San Bernardo and had lunch in a nice cabin/restaurant were we had amazing local food while enjoying a great view of the white mountains.

We started with a great variety of appetizers:

baby onions in a balsamic vinegar sauce, preserved tomatoe chunks with aromatic herbs, mushrooms sauce with cream and parsley, fresh cheese with a walnut sauce (tomino), everything accompanied with walnuts brown bread or raisins brown bread....
We decided to skip first dishes and pass on to the mush (polenta).
They have different kind of polenta over here, but it should be rigorously cooked on a wood stove and into a copper pan. My favorite polenta is the "Concia" one, which is mixed with fontina chunks as soon as it is removed from the fire and it forms this cream of polenta and cheese which is very tasty. But polenta should be eaten with a side dish so here they are: mustard sauce rabbit (very delicate), beef cooked in red wine (very tasty) and sausages in a red sauce (very rustic), everything was absolutely delicious.

As dessert we had a liquorice cream caramel (panna cotta) with a mint and milk sauce.
But an Italian meal it's not really Italian if it doesn't finish with a coffee and a good variety of liquors: liquorice liquor, grappa, and limoncello.

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