Mile High Dining enjoyed a four course take home and cook a meal from Frasca Food and Wine. It was called Passport to Portugal as all the dishes and the bottle of wine were based in Portugal. Clearly, after a year of virus lockdown, chefs at an Italian restaurant are bored and have to expand their cooking horizons. So off to Portugal. The dishes were soup, bread rolls, tomato salad, a whole chicken, dessert tarts, and white wine from Portugal.
The Caldo Verde soup had kale, cabbage, potatoes, and a mild flavored sausage. It was the easiest dish to prepare as all you needed was a pot. It was a very mild flavored soup with simple ingredients. The crusty bread rolls went very well with the soup.
The tomato salad had a large onion and tomato that you sliced at home and added cilantro and a red wine vinegar dressing. Again, it was a simple dish but with a great presentation with the fresh parsley added on top.
The main dish was the Piri Piri whole chicken. Piri Piri is a mild flavored red pepper. The chicken was sliced in half and marinated with the pepper and lemon juice. The dish took the most work to prepare as you had to place it in the oven and bake it for 30 minutes. Mile High Dining was thinking the red pepper would be very spicy but it was not. The chicken was tender and had a very good taste as a result of the lemon and red pepper.
The dessert dish was four small creamy custard tarts, an excellent way to finish, not too sweet but just right.
Lastly, the wine was a white burgundy from Portugal. It was an easy drink. Mile High Dining expanded and had a red port wine, not the extra sweet dessert wine but a ruby port that was very good.
My ratings are: It’s OK, Good, Very Good, and Excellent.
The verdict for Frasca Food and Eine is Very Good as we enjoyed the culinary trip to Portugal as we have never been there so this was a special treat.
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