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Daily Archives Sunday, August 2008

opera

Tonight we saw the first act of La Boheme. The cicadas and crying babies were a bit too much, and without supertitles, Isabella wasn’t too excited about it. The voices were a bit soft anyway, but it was a nice set!

Posted 03 August 2008 ~ Carolyn § foto ‡ Comments (0)

pasticcini

Or at least that’s what the dictionary says. Muffins are pretty American, about as unlikely a find in Europe as brownies. But fresh blueberries were on sale (99 euro cents for 125 grams!) and I even found Italian-made bran cereal.

The recipe is based on one from epicurious:
Mix together:
1 egg
1/4 c sunflower [...]

Posted 03 August 2008 ~ Carolyn § cibo § foto ‡ Comments (0)

Gnocchi!

The people staying here last month left a bag of potatoes, so of course we must make gnocchi! My grandmother made this for us before I ever saw gnocchi on a menu. The first time I ordered it in a restaurant, I was surprised to see it and said, just like she did, “Gnawkey” — [...]

Posted 03 August 2008 ~ Carolyn § cibo § foto ‡ Comments (0)

nuoatare in Borgo a Mozzano

The town country club turned two of its tennis courts into 3 pools — a 30 meter lap pool and two small wading pools, one with a fountain. 6.50 euro each for the day until 7 pm. We were thinking we’d go to Bagni di Lucca today but when we saw the [...]

Posted 03 August 2008 ~ Carolyn § foto ‡ Comments (0)
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