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New Year, New Life?
So, 2011 has already started. Don’t know you, but we’re putting a lot of expectations in this year.
I’m looking forward to welcome guests, to know new people, to learn new things and customs.
We know there’s such a hard work ahead of us and we expect some hiddent traps. But, for the moment, we don’t care!
Just to learn something new, sunday we had a trip to Genoa; it’s a 90 minutes long journey; when you travel with friends time flies. Our target was the exhibition “Mediterraneo” at Palazzo Ducale.
And being already there, could we miss “L’Africa delle Meraviglie”? No opportunity missed!
We would like to visit the Cathedral of St. Lawrence, with its majestic gothic portals, but unfortunately we were out of time; I hope you’ll be pleased with a picture from the exterior!
To be honest, kids appreciated the McDonald’s visit!
Christmas and Early Vegetables
Since a long time ( I don’t remember well, but it’s more than 20 year old), the Christmas evening (I mean the 25th) we meet our friends to have the so called “dinner of leftovers”.
We consider it a tradition and has 2 goals: to limit our food wastes while eating something we didn’t plan to cook. You know, when you eat something at lunch it tastes fantastic, the same food again at dinner looks “boring”, overall when you have to feed some kids. We all love to cook, so it’s guaranteed we’ll find something wonderful in our dishes.
With our “Christmas cat” taking us company, we ate up our broad beans (it’s an early variety which sprouts in this period) and salame (apparently salame and broad beans is commonly eaten only here in Liguria), chards au gratin, salmon puffs, cima (a typical ligurian recipe, in this case the Imperia-like version: basically it’s a veal meat pocket filled with whole eggs, chards, pine nuts, carrots, prosciutto cotto and parmigiano), crepes filled with fish in a porcini béchamel sauce, coniglio alla ligure, lamb, home made panettone, 2 chocolate mousses (we were doubtful about what recipe to cook, so we prepared 2 variants and did a survey: it won, hands down, the “italian meringue” variant).
Yes, you guessed, we’re a “bit” overweight.
