#dinner out

I'm having a Calzone filled with MANY THINGS.

Entrée Platter - spinach and bamboo shoot salad, potato and clam with tofu cream shiitake mushroom cheese, marinated asparagus, boiled pork belly with tomato sauce, Kombu cured beef

Deep fried - snapper, prawn and tempura broccolini in Japanese broth

Main - grilled chicken thigh fillet with green pea puree

24 April: dinner at Artigiano, in Tiranë, Albania

the first dinner my friend and I had in Albania, at an Italian restaurant. if you haven't read my other posts about Albanian fare, it is very much Italian cuisine. hence, the risotto pictured here (r).

the dish on the left was an Albanian cornbread appetizer, and while I was not hungry enough to finish everything, the two pieces I did have were really yummy. the cornbread was thinner and crisper, and also less sweet, than like american cornbread, which is fair. it had a walnut spread on top, which was a nice texture but tbh a little flavourless. but it balanced the crispness of the cornbread crust imho. garnished on top of the spread were tomatoes and green peppers, the latter of which I admittedly picked off...

if I didn't have a main of risotto coming after the cornbread, I would have eaten all of it. but risotto is one of my favs and I didn't want to fill up on cornbread xD I sure could have though! definitely did not nEEd both dishes - the food was very satisfying and filling.