A Little Different Blog

My mom said I only talk about food. I am not sure what I should write about when I am clearly here for food. So I am taking a different slant to this blog. This first picture is a scampi from Italy. It is a fun looking shrimp. It was fried on top of my fritti misti, fried vegetables and seafood. everybite a surprise. I fried a piece of lemon to go in mine. Our chef said it was not Italian, but tasty. I told him Japanese tempura is not Italian but he said it was brought over years ago. I was just trying to add to Italian cuisine. These are my fish group for my seafood stew. I filleted all of these. Steve wanted me to get good at fish. Well I can fillet a fish and scale one in about 5 minutes. It is messy but easy. We had a great guest chef this week.

This is my strudel bread. It has nuts, chopped prunes, walnuts, raisans soaked in orange liquior, and pine nuts. It is rolled and then rolled like a snake to fit in the pan. it is basted with grappa and honey. Very nice when hot out of the oven.
This is school when leaving friday night. It was the most beautiful sky. It looked like puffs of pink cotton. We were very happy to be on our way home. We were having a family dinner. Everyone fixes something and we all bring our own wine. One of the girls, Christine is engaged to be married in may. I think I will go do her hair for the wedding. It is in Atlanta so I can visit my brother Joe. I think he will be happy to see me. Well her borfriend came to see her and we all had to check him out, very cute and real friendly. We did not seem to scare him to much. I went to the pub with the gang for the first time. It was a pub, very smokey and bad drinks. When it was ok to leave, I left and came back to the apt. The Walk back made me realize I did not need to drink that much again. Kitty showed up at my door with a hugh bowl of popcorn and we talked and ate popcorn till 2:30, 3:00. Wrong night to do all this. We had to be on a bus Saturday morning at 8:00. I did not feel sick just not awake and alittle YUK. I think I felt better after my nap on the bus. WOW, I am getting old. Next time they want to go to the pub I will make sure I have nothing to do the next day. Today I slept till 8:00, late for me. I washed my sheets so they would dry by tonight, NO DRYER, Cleaned the apt., ironed my uniforms, and read some on my GREAT KINDLE. It was a easy day.
Signing off from Italy, Yvonne