Today was Anne's birthday. She asked for seafood and lemon cheesecake, so we made Zuppa di Pesce, a lovely seafood stew. The recipe for the sauce is from Mario Batali's Molto Italiano. The seafood, of course, was what looked best at the market--scallops, halibut, clams, shrimp, and dungeness crab. It was fabulous.
Dessert was a Lemon, Ricotta, Pine Nut Cake. I first saw this recipe in the March 2007 copy of Tastes of Italia magazine, but it comes from Italian Two Easy: Simple Recipes from the London River Café, by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. This link is to a recipe that is similar and adapted from the original, though it looks a little less rich. Let's just say there was very little of this cake left!
The wine with this meal was a 2007 Sinfarosa Zinfandel. A number of bloggers recommended a zinfandel with cioppino and similar seafood stews (such as our zuppa), so I thought it would be good to use an Italian zin. It was very nice with this meal.
Happy Birthday Anne!
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