I’ve got to agree with Lisa over at What We Eat… bagna cauda (or “magna carta” as we often jokingly refer to it) is one of our very favorite things off of the Omnivore’s 100. But, our love for bagna cauda was initially a bit of a surprise.
And yes, you do feel a story coming on.
It all started on a Saturday night in May — Memorial Day weekend of 2005, I think. We decided to have what we call a “cooking night” — which means we spend the entire evening cooking together, making little plates of this and that, noshing and enjoying the whole experience. This is usually the sort of night when we come up with our best ideas for the “Burp” menu.
On this particular evening, we shopped and settled on some tasty dry-packed scallops (this was our first time buying these, and we are converts!), some fresh spinach, a nice loaf of French bread, some fr…
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Mozzarella is a soft cheese that is best fresh. I got water buffalo mozzarella before from Vace that was flown in from Italy. It was very tasty and creamy but it lacked the “freshness” of really fresh mozzarella. When it is fresh, mozzarella should also be a little squeaky like cheese curds. With this in mind, we made it a mission to try and get some fresh water buffalo mozzarella from one of the few places you can in U.S. This stuff should be the schiznit, did it live up to expectations?…read on!
Water buffalo are not something you expect to see grazing the Vermont countryside. They are hairy, horned animals that would look more at home in a rice paddy in Asia.
Water buffalo milk is much thicker than normal cow milk. It contains much less water and more protein and fat. …