torinos foods pics

fresh focaccia bread baked daily at our restaurant
you can buy it for your dinners, for your party, for your snack




Fresh sauteed potatoes with extra virgin olive oil, garlic and onion for your breakfasta at Torinos!




Torinos HOME MADE TOAST AND JAM!
yes this one is strawberries




POLLO AL LIMONE
Before




POLLO AL LIMONE excellant presantation for caterings/buffets



POLENTA ALLA PARMIGIANA

souper bowl event 2011

a lot of work
pain de gene made it by Chef Maxime Bouneou
from scratch ( do I need to say it?)




2400 hand cut tiny little pieces of it




push pops: 1000 of them










Maxime Bouneou the pastry chef of New Mexico at work



a tiny fraisier ( strawberry cake)



small langues de chat












chocolate and praline layers




lemon vanilla mascarpone




Passion fruit



me (Daniela) about to die
we worked up to 3am on Friday, went to bed at 4am, wake up at 6am and went at the event at 8am




Maxime same way, tired, tired but happy to do it!




and more



and more surprising I did not dream about them the following night!



arriving at the event



starting the decoration of our stand
fake grass, frogs sounds effects, the push pops dessert as flowers growing all around the table






It was a competition as well
We won the 3rd place for best dessert


Thank you to Maxime Bouneou ( the pastry chef/chef/fantastic father/ excellant husband/ and more)
Marion Peira Bouneou ( fantastic daughter)
Katrina Lovelady ( fantastic waitress and helper)
Jamie ( who took the picture!) she was an excellant helper
and me!! (I am good and modest)

TUESDAY 25TH JANUARY

ENTREE
Grilled fresh snapperserved with a vegetable tian
( a thin layer of sauteed zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes)
and topped with a sauce vierge
( extra virgin olive oil, roasted pinon, onoin and tomatoes diced)
$14.95

SOUP
Zucchini and cilantro
NOT VEGETARIAN
NO CREAM
$3.75 cup

DRINK OF THE DAY ORGANIC CHAI LATTE
$3.50

RAVIOLI OF THE WEEK
Chicken , lemon and olive nicoise
topped with a lemon sauce
$14.95

panetteria

OMG, every day you can have a differant kind of bread....still not at the supermarket....I am talking about real shop, where people are talking, recognize you and say hello

salumeria

A unique and fantastic smell.
I promess all those smells are in my mind and they will stay forever!
Here you buy your what you call deli.
Shaved prosciutto, salame cotto or crudo, and cheese.
going to buy the cheese:


Another souvenir in my grandmother town...before to buy cheese you must buy the bread, and that in one particulary bakery, than going to buy grissini (breadsticks)in the second particulary bakery (the bread being in a bag the second bakery will not got jealous that you bought your bread somewhere else)
Breadstick are so big.... that you must buy as second ingridients because you cannot hide them....
Once the bread stick were in our hands we could go visit the cheese shop.
They had huge log of cheese, we wre litteraly sitting on it!
The owner will make you taste the cheese that you will enjoy with THE BREAD STICK, yeah and sometime the owner will serve you a glass of wine!!!!!!
To me too...and I was little , maybe 10?
But Inever like wine when I was little, now...it is another story

THAT'ST A BUTCHER

Oh yeah this is what I miss the most....to go in my neighborood shop and buy and hamburger that I will cook at home! Yes in Italy we love hamburgers.....no bread with it , I mean not the bun...

Just served in a plate , cooked ...well see recipe....

Anyway, when you enter in those shop the first thing that you wil remember later on (especially when you will not see it for a long time) is the smell.....it smell clean...it smell healthy...it smell meat.....

When I was little and going to visit my grandmother in Pont Canavese, (TO), we were going to visit the butcher and he was make me try the sausages, I loved soooo much those sausages...raw...yes raw.....
But she will not buy all her meat in one place, with years of testing and knowledge she will decide which one had the best sausages and which one will be better for the veal roast....

Same for the bread, vegetables.....
IN THAT WAY EVERYONE WILL GET SOME OF HER BUSINESS
You see the picture look how beautiful and full are the windows...this is because they do have a clientele for that!!! People in Italy have neighborood shop, that you will visit some time every day...buy your dinner.

talk to the butcher, ask him for advices, recipes, he is a SPECIALIST, A SPECIALIST OF MEAT and it his job and interest to make you happy and you will come back to see him!!!!!!!