Highlight reel:
1. Trip to Todi/Titignano: the entire program went to the little hill town of Todi for the day, finished with an 15 course delicious meal at a medieval castle in Titignano.
2. 24 Hour Bakery! The concept of open 24 hours doesn't really exist here. They have the wackiest store hours- they close for lunch from 1/1:30 to 4 which is super inconvenient. But they do pastries right.
3. Home cookin'. Me and my two roommates Corin and Alexis take turns making dinner. Corin has made some really great sauces for pasta and Alexis made some delicious stuffed peppers. I've contributed some homemade pancakes (from scratch) and salads. We really love making home bruschetta too. Just chop up some tomatoes, add a little basil, put a little olive oil on the bread and toast it! Divine. One night Corin made pesto-rubbed chicken wrapped in prosciutto! It was basically all the left-overs we had in the fridge, and it was great. Last week she even made gnocchi from SCRATCH! It was quite the process and took her about 2 hours. But it was worth the wait.
4. Geeeelato. The consistency is somewhere between ice cream and rita's, leaning more towards the ice cream. But the aforementioned Old Bridge is our place! For 1,50 euro you get to pick 3 flavors and they load you up. Cones too! And the whipped cream is free, and it's the good kind.
5. Carbs carbs carbs! I'm waiting to have my to "die" for pizza in Naples, but they do a pretty good job here. There's a restaurant literally right outside the residence that serves pizzas to "take away" and you get a huge personal pizza for only 5 euros! It's great. And they have a chain here called Pizza Rustica where they have huge rectangular trays of pizza and you tell them what kind you want, they weigh it, cut it in half, and then wrap it up and you eat it like a sandwich. It's cheap and delicious! And the pasta! My best meal here by far was when we got cacio e pepe. We absolutely love love love Anthony Bourdain's show No Reservations and he recently did a Rome episode before I left. The first place he goes to he calls "Restaurant X" because he didn't want to turn it into a tourist trap. He gets the cacio e pepe which is some fresh pasta, tossed in cheese and pepper and then served in an edible bowl made of cheese. Again it's all about the fresh ingredients! Our waiter knew we were there for the cacio, but he was super nice and we want to go back in the spring and eat outside like Tony did!
6. Nutella. Since peanut butter here is rare, a lot of people basically eat nutella in place of peanut butter. We love the grocery store here, Carrefour. Like Weis & Giant they have store brand stuff and we discovered that the Carrefour nutella is actually better than the fancy kind! We've moved on to our own personal jars because we eat way too much of it.
7. Prosciutto. My new deli meat of choice.
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