He loves going shopping each morning (without me) for that day's secret ingredient. Yesterday's pre-dinner surprise was caviar. The day before he made a nice Caprese salad of tomato, basil and mozzarella.
He's particularly excited that he can now order most of his food in Italian. The locals seem to appreciate him making the effort and he's having a great time trying to speak the lingo.
(God knows what I did to deserve him. I'm still trying to figure it out.)
Are the veges really different to what we grow here? anything uniquely Italian?
ReplyDeleteGood question. Not as much difference as we expected actually. Everything looks very familiar - spinach, aubergine, cucumber etc etc. The big difference is that more fruit and veg seems to be grown in a market garden or home grown or organic environment - so there is much more oddly shaped fruit and veges for sale, and lots of small owner/operator vege shops. The taste of their tomatoes is amazing - much more flavoursome that most ones we eat in NZ - even the NZ home grown ones don't seem to taste as good as the Italian ones. They say it is the volcanic soil and the sunshine, but that can't be the whole story as we have that too.
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