Home-Hosted Dinner

     We enjoyed a home-hosted dinner on this night in Tirano. They drove us from our hotel to their home but it was dark so I'm not sure where it was located but it was a short drive from our hotel, so it must have been in the photo below somewhere as we were near the top of the tree-lined street.

     Our hosts were Daniella, Mateo, and Myrco. Mateo, their son, works for the Butega Valtellina winery where we visited our first night in Tirano. He does labeling and design work. He said that labelling is incredibly difficult as Italy changes labelling and content laws frequently and it is difficult to keep up with it all and stay in compliance. He said it's much more difficult than in the U.S. They also had two dogs. 

     Our first course was a carrot, potato, onion, and nutmeg cream. I think it was soup, but they called it a cream (no photo). We had chianti wine with it. Our main was rigatoni with a meat and tomato sauce. Mateo had something different from us.

     The last course of our dinner was salad with lettuce, zucchini, bresaola, and Valtellina Casera cheese. Gelato was for dessert.