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Chocolate pasta

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.

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We have not tried it yet, but apparently it goes very will with ‘salsa di noci’, which I believe is walnut sauce. 

I’ll let you know what choccy pasta is like, once I know.  Very odd though, is it not?

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