I do a pretty good job of complaining about how much crap we buy on holiday (that's vacation for you Yankees). I don't like bothering with hauling the crap on to the plane, worrying about if the bottle of tasty-whatever-it-is packed in my underwear has broken, etc. Of course, I don't complain when we get home and I have some seriously tasty business to deal with.
The picture is crap but let me tell you what we got (this is just the food!)
Back row, from left to right: dried tomatoes, moscato (dessert wine), moscato, empty box for balsamic vinegar, olive oil, bucatini (tube pasta). Next row: fat jar of spicy salami spread (I think), jar with 'wick' is spicy pepper paste, other jar is some other spicy spread, grappa berta, black truffle paste, whole black truffles, balsamic vinegar, bag o' pasta seasoning with garlic and peppers. Front Row: cured meat, spicy cured meat, dried meat, some other meat.
We haven't touched a thing yet... there might be some left for travelers that make it our way.
Tuesday, July 15
The Spoils of Rome
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5 comments:
DYNOMITE!!
Any sauce with a fuse on top must be good?!
Oh how I wish I could bring dried meats back from Europe.
One of your biggest blog fans, Go.2.Belle, brought me a jar of Marmite. I tried it last night on some Hawaiian bread with margarine. The initial taste is shocking. I didn’t have a big piece of bread to experiment with the ratio of butter to Marmite (or any cottage cheese).
Proper ratio is lots of butter to little bit o marmite.
I currently am snacking on marmite rice cakes -- they are around 20% marmite and are quite delicious.
If I keep sampling like I am from the Cheese Market, I will be one of the biggest blog fans...HA. Can't wait to try it myself, I think.
Dude. Save some of the goods. Anything that will last for a few months is acceptable. I'll trade you for some Frank's Red Hot.
Keep trying. We can get Frank's here now.
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