Bravo Bill! And nobody should forget the vino, perhaps a Vernaccia or a Moscato d'Asti for a weekend brunch.
-----Original Message----- From: bill kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:23 PM To: lute list Subject: guitarists now that the denigration of guitarists is at an end - i think - i'd like to celebrate by telling you about a recipe for left-over rice. i realize this is wildly off-topic but if there's one thing i've learned while living in italy, it's this: lunch is important. this is not so much an observation that conforms to the italian stereotype as it is italian wisdom. grate a courgette into a mixing bowl that contains any quantity of cold, left-over rice, plus however much parmesan cheese you might like. add one or two eggs and mix well. scoop the mixture into a mildly hot frying pan with a hot dollop of olive oil (tuscan, naturally ... is there any other?) and pat it down gently with a spatula. cover it completely with a lid and let it fry till you think the bottom is a light, golden brown. the tricky bit is flipping the rice cake - that's what it is; a rice pan-cake - and the only way is to place an oven mitt on top of the lid, quickly turn pan and lid up-side down so that the uncooked side is face down on the lid and then slip the rice cake back into the pan. more rice than egg is best and mushrooms - particularly when sautéed - work just as well as courgettes. this is extremely simple and delicious. bon appetito - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
