Day 17

It was a Sunday - and though I didn't have a traditional Italian Sunday feast, I still managed to eat pretty well. Started off the day with a fried egg and mortadella on toast with a little mayo (gotta have it) and a splash of red wine vinegar. Good stuff. Also, notice the juice behind it. It's blood-orange juice, which I've discovered here, and its so good! It's everything normal orange-juice should be: sweet and tart and pink. What more could you need to wake you up in the morning?


Went out to coffee and found this adorable little tart that I just had to have. It's called torta della nonna and it has pinenuts, strawberry jam, and some sweet squash-like filling. It was the perfect coffee snack!


For dinner, you guessed it, pasta. I just don't ever get sick of it here. Made it tonight with a simple tomato sauce of onion, garlic, oregano, this good canned tomato purree, and panna, a popular ingredient in Italy which is basically packaged cream and which basically makes anything you put it in that much more delicious. I plan on bringing tons of this stuff back to the U.S. Everyone here uses it all the time and yet you can't find it anywhere in the States. Oh, Italy.