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Menu is a specialty food products company that began life as a salami factory run by Romolo Barbieri in Cavezzo (province of Modena), Italy in the 1930's. Over the years, the company, now run by Romolo's son, Rodolfo, has expanded to create quality Italian food products for fine restaurants around the world.
This exquisite item from Menu is a blend of chopped Porcini mushrooms, sunflower oil, and margarine cooked into a rich earthy sauce. Excellent as a pasta sauce, you can also use it as a spread for sandwiches, or use it to fill canapes and vol-au-vents. For a unique recipe, use it as a pizza topping! A must have for the mushroom lover.
Oil Vey!!
By mermaidvw
from Monterey, CA on 12/13/2007
from Monterey, CA on 12/13/2007
Pros:
Vegetarian
Cons:
Bulky Packaging, Delicate, Messy, Sauce is clotted, Very faint porcini flavor, Way too oily
Best Uses:
Can't imagine one
Describe Yourself:
Foodie, Frequent Diner, Health Conscious, Lover of intense flavors
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Disappointed in this product as I love the strong taste of porcini. Used it as a pasta sauce and a base for sauteed fresh veggies. Very oily, almost no flavor, like a clotted flour sauce... some pleasant chunkiness, but basically, bland, dull,and heavy. Jar too big, hard to open. Would not suggest this particular product to anyone.