When I wrote up our visit to Toast last month, I mentioned that they had as a special a crostini w/ house-cured lardo. We went back today and this time we ordered it. Mmm... porky goodness. Sarah had the three cheese panino and I had the bruschetta w/ shrimp, pancetta & radicchio. Both were excellent.
We started the day w/ a stop at the Durm Farmer's Market where we got some fingerling potatoes (I forget exactly which kind but they were damn good). Also some kielbasa from Brinkley Farms. Roasted them together with some mushrooms for dinner tonight. Damn tasty, if I do say so.
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OK, I am a complete Philistine and I have no idea what lardo is, but it sounds gross. Or like what we might call the person who eats too much of it.
"Lardo is a type of salume made by curing strips of pig fat with rosemary and other spices." So says Wikipedia. The version at Toast is, I think, run under the broiler giving it something like the quality of unsmoked bacon w/ all the lean parts missing.
It's insanely rich.
ohhohohhh .. lardo