Goodbye at Ganzo

At 8:30 our final feast began. It was titled “Eating from North to South Italy” and was put on by WSU as their final dinner project.

We started with 3 passed appetizers: Melon wrapped in Prosciutto and drizzled with balsamic, bruschetta with olive oil and diced Tomatoes, and a thin wheat brea with a cheese spread and apricot compote.

For our first plate we had ricotta and basil stuffed zucchini flowers fried in vegetable oil on a bed of spiced diced tomatoes. This was probably my favorite dish of the evening!

For our first entree we had mushroom risotto. If was very tasty but rich. I couldn’t finish mine if I planned to eat the rest of the dishes.

The second course was a white fish coated in almonds and served on spinach and mash potatoes. The fish was too milky for me, but the spinach was really good. We were disappointed that they had trouble getting vegetarian and allergy plate out with the other dishes. They tended to get theirs as we finished our plates. We also switched to a new white wine during this course.

Before our dessert they served us a melon vodka sorbet shot. This was way too strong for me so I only had a few tastes.

Lastly for our dessert we had a raspberry and pistachio tiramisu whith a hazelnut spread and chocolate sweep. This was a very nice dessert but it was hard to eat and was a little dry. Taylor got a pancetta due to her but allergy, but hers still came out about 5-8 minutes after the whole room had been served. Also our table was never offered the dessert wine until after we finished the dessert and the table had been cleared. We only got to taste it because we asked about it. In my opinion it was a bad choice of dessert wine anyway. It had an overwhelming alcohol taste and would have drowned the dessert. It was probably better we got skipped.

Minus the mishaps it was a nice meal. Not as great as the first, but still good food. Mostly we were enjoying each other’s company for the last time and were very sad to say our goodbyes. This has been such an extraordinary experience. We have learned and seen so much in the short time we’ve been here.

I am not sure when I will post again. I still need to write about my wine tasting and do a wrap up but I am flying all day tomorrow. I leave for the airport at 7:00am, get on my Florence flight at 12:45pm to Amsterdam, then fly to Atlanta at 5pm (land in USA at 8:20pm same day June 6th), then flying to DFW at 9:50. I should arrive in Dallas at 11:45pm June 6th. Hopefully it all goes smoothly! I’ll write again when I can!