The other evening I had the pleasure of going to ” fffumée HOME RESTAURANT” where I enjoyed a delicious smoked meal.
Savor the Flavor.
Chef Giampaolo Verducci has some Moxie!
Chef Giampaolo Verducci has lived and worked in the restaurant business in Finland for more than 20 years and has brought these learned traditions back home with him to a special village in Le Marche called, Monteleone. Giampaolo is also extremely creative in other ways with his hands in the arts of carpentry, which is displayed in every nook of his beautiful home restaurant. One really gets the feel of Finland mixed with Le Marche all in good taste.
We began the evening on the terrace where we were served a cocktail with mint, citrus and sambuca (the non-alcoholic version was delicious as well) and salmon stuffed olives and bruschetta with cold smoked salmon, they were divine.
Olives stuffed with salmon.
Cold-smoked salmon bruschetta.
Then we were called into the dining area, tonight it was the kitchen where we could watch the chef in action.
The Verducci brothers Chef Giampaolo & Cristiano
Please excuse the used knife, but I was about to dig in then thought, “Take a photo woman!” Sliced fresh pecorino cheese with homemade jam, salmon puff pastry and a spinach and tuna quiche. All eaten on the “River Table”.
Starting with some mixed bruschetta, cold-smoked mackerel and fresh goats cheese and salty puff pastries
My photo does not do it justice but this was so so good I could have eaten all this cold smoked mackerel and left the bread. Plate of just cold smoked mackerel please!
Our first dish was (because it is gone in our tummies) fresh campofilone pasta with smoked salmon and sauteed onions & radicchio. It was delicious and the pasta itself was absolutely yummy, honestly I have never noticed the taste of pasta itself before, it was salted to perfection and I don’t even like salt.
This was a simple tomato sauce pasta because someone in our dinner party does not like salmon, it was NOT me!
Our second course was hot-smoked mackerel & crayfish with rosemary potatoes. This dish was simple and interesting, I cleaned my plate!
The evening ended with homemade limoncello with candles on the River Table and………
A gorgeous Salmon colored moon!
Below is listed all sites for more information on, fffumée HOME RESTAURANT.
salmonfestival.wordpress.com
Home Restaurant Fumèe di Giampaolo Verducci
Instagram: festivalsalmon
Disclaimer: This being a dinner party that I attended, there was much conversation, I did not want to be “the one” who pulls out her iPhone at every moment, so my photos are not the most professional with the lighting, but I hope you enjoyed the ones I did take. I did not take the two photos of the stuffed olives and the cold smoked salmon on the bruschetta, I got them from fffumée website.
Marche Magic 
yum wow yum .. great take on the prompt, fab food and amazing decore!
Great article Issa, well done – what an amazing area you live in 🙂
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Thank you so much Kate!!! There is a wonderful vacation waiting for you her! 😉
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ah my travelling is very limited now so I can enjoy my travels through my dear friends posts .. cheaper and easier 🙂
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Tru that! lol
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Just posted a link to this article in my daily prompt ‘savour’, fitted well with your post 🙂
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My life feels completely unfulfilled now.
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Ha Ha Get Out of Town! U are “Dangerspouse”!!!
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Wow! That all looks so delicious! Love the photographs and the table – thank you. I wish them all the best.
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Thank you and it was a divine eating experience the salmon moon was the cherry on the evening .
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I liked all the smoked fish. Lovely dining atmosphere. Looks like a great evening!
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Huck it most definitely is if you can smoke stuff it really is a treat, though he learned from some of the best people the Swedish yuummmmmmm.
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How wonderful! All of that delicious food…masterpieces of art!
Now, I am hungry! 🙂
HUGS,
Carolyn 🙂
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This was a real treat and a Home Restaurant such a cool idea and personal….. awesome
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