Truffle Oil | Sybaritica

I decided to try the above experiment as it allowed me to use two ingredients that have featured in recent ‘Foodstuffs’ posts, namely Jerusalem Artichokes and Truffle Oil. I wanted to do something Italian in character with this vegetable and I very much wanted to try roasting them. Just using oil and garlic seemed to be a bit pedestrian and so I decided to perk the basic idea by using lemon zest and butter along with the Truffle oil. I only had 6 or 7 artichokes and so, of necessity, I was confined to doing just an appetizer portion. Read more

Sometimes, all you have in the house are canned mushrooms. For most purposes, they are just not good as fresh ones but Truffle oil, which I just featured in my last Foodstuffs post, can improve them no end. I actually had fresh mushrooms in the fridge last night when I made dish you see above but I really wanted to showcase the Truffle oil as a follow up to the original Foodstuffs post. Read more