{"id":99,"date":"2008-06-26T22:44:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/if-paradise-is-half-as-nice\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T22:44:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T09:44:50","slug":"if-paradise-is-half-as-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/if-paradise-is-half-as-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"(If paradise is) half as nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One down, one to go. The southern hemisphere&#8217;s first successful commercial grower of bianchetto (<em>Tuber borchii<\/em>) truffles, Jeff Weston* of the Borchii Park truffiere outside Christchurch, was kind enough to send me a couple of lovely truffles (see last post), and this evening we ate the first of them. It was a simple risotto milanese, with the addition of a few peas, and a scrape of nutmeg. And a whole truffle (about 15g). Truffle burps? We got &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hate to have to compare the bianchetto to a good magnatum &#8211; it&#8217;s been too long since I tasted a really good example &#8211; but I was forcefully reminded of the best of the Oregon whites I tasted last year. The aroma is penetrating. Despite being in a box inside a plastic envelope, Peg knew something was up as I walked past on the way back from the post box. Her nose was twitching&#8230; As indeed was mine.<\/p>\n<p>Number two is with some eggs. Meanwhile there&#8217;s a ripe Camembert infusing with some black truffle.<\/p>\n<p>Will I be able to grow more than I can eat? I&#8217;m hoping for a good crop, or the belt tightening will be metaphorical rather than actual&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* A scholar and a gentleman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One down, one to go. The southern hemisphere&#8217;s first successful commercial grower of bianchetto (Tuber borchii) truffles, Jeff Weston* of the Borchii Park truffiere outside Christchurch, was kind enough to send me a couple of lovely truffles (see last post), and this evening we ate the first of them. It was a simple risotto milanese, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/if-paradise-is-half-as-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(If paradise is) half as nice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","category-truffles-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}