I forgot to mention that at the Paolo Sarpi street fair we picked up a bag of 'cocoa' flavoured pasta. It's brown, as you would expect and is real pasta, not just chocolate dressed up to look like pasta.We have not tried it yet, but apparently it goes very will with 'salsa di noci', which I … [Read more...]
From Pasta Hell to Pasta Heaven
February 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
We had friends round for lunch and being in Italy, we kicked off with pasta. Nothing unusual there, you may think. Well, there was something unusual. This was perfect pasta!Up to now, I have never really appreciated fresh pasta. If you cook it for the recommended time it often comes … [Read more...]
Lentils and Cotechino
January 3, 2006 By 6 Comments
In Italy the traditional end of year meal consists of lentils and a meat like substance which goes by the name of cotechino and, by all accounts, the best cotechino comes from Modena (the place Ferraris come from too, if you did not already know).Anyway, cotechino is actually meat which comes … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
December 31, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Well, better late than never..... I usually leave everything to either the last minute or just after the last minute and Christmas greetings are no exception. I finally got round to emailing a selection of virtual cards to people on Christmas Eve - about an hour before hopping in a taxi and … [Read more...]
The return of the tea bags
July 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Oh joy! My other half wandered into the internationalish supermarket near us on Saturday and rang me up to ask me if the brand of tea bags I usually got was 'PG tips'. I said 'yes' and asked why. She said that they were in stock. Wonderful, I had almost given up hope of finding my beloved bags ever … [Read more...]
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