I went to Assisi in Italy with Marcus. He took me there for "long weekend". It was wonderful experience as usual. Thanks to my lovely boyfriend, apparently It was surprise, but about 10day before we went, he slipped his mouth where we were going! Ah, Bless. City of Assisi was beautiful place. I saw cute rustic green grocers and pretty looking vegetables in the shops. We bought dried porcini mushrooms and smoked chestnuts for our dinner. We didn't know till when it was cooked it was smoked. and price was very reasonable there too. I cooked risotto again, because it was eazy to cook. we didn't have a lot of cooking facilities. no chopping board, no sharp knife, etc. all we borrowed from hotel reception were: 1x serrated knife, 1x small flying pan, 1x small cooking pot to cook. that was all. Considering that, I did really well on cooking wise. this is our little kitchenette.
It had small electric cooker with 2 hobs, 1x little sink, small fridge, and baby espresso machine! very Italian! We bought a box of green tea from a shop near by. I love different green teas. Italian green tea tasted very similar to Spanish one. Anyway, this is what I cooked and it has lots of olive oil on it!
And it was, romantic meal for two!
On the following day, we went out for walk in the city. Guess what I found! Patisserie shops!
Those cake shops also had Italian ice creams! Italians like ice cream too!!! and it was yummy♥♥♥
I don't remember if I had a cake or not....Probably I didn't.... we had ice cream though!
This was my ice cream. It was pistachio ice cream and very naughty tiramisu ice cream! Cor, they were sexy. We could eat another cup! Marcus usually don't eat dairy products in England. He was very naughty to have the ice cream! Well, for me, I love to try local products when comes to foods. Experience! I want to experience everything around me! From visual to taste, smell, touch, and everything! That is why I love to eat cakes when I'm in overseas even sometimes some foods make me constipate! Anyway, this is naughty Marcus eating his ice cream. ☺☺☺
Oh, I just remembered, yes, I did eat a couple pieces of cakes at the breakfast. Breakfast was included in the room charge. So every morning, we went to the hotel (B&B) cafe to have our brekkie. 2nd day and our last brekkie we had soya milk with some cornflakes and fruits. I did have 2 pieces of cakes one breakfast. I noticed Italians liked and had sweet breakfast. Cakes! Greeks do that too, I must say, I do love my sweet breakfast. When i went to Queensland(Australia) I had pancake with lots of berries and creams and sweet fruits coulis...Cor, it was devine. Anyway, this is our breakfast.
The lady who was serving breakfast was really sweet. She didn't speak English, but somehow we communicated fine. My Italian wasn't too bad either. Mind you, I learnt my Italian from my favo chefs(thanks to Luigi and Stephano) and my kitchen language. Came in really handy! Tray bake on the right side, the breakfast lady baked it. And it was lemony and vanilla, simple cake but it was very nice. she told me she made it, asked me to eat. Well, I already had a piece previous morning. "F**k it", I thought, "I'm guanna have another piece..." So I did. If I see yummy things in front of me, it's really hard to resist. But thing is; once I start, I don't seem to stop. When I came back from Italy, I kept eating a cake almost every day. Some days I had two pieces again! Now, gradually reduced my cake/sugar intake, I'm back on no-cake(or 1 a week) now.☺☺☺
By the way, two hone jars on top of this blog, they were local honey I think. Both were very nice I loved especially light coloured one. Very flowery♥♥♥ Marcus preferred the dark one. It was nice but a bit too medicinal for me. I poured lots on my cornflakes and fruits♥♥♥ I could eat the whole jar!
Last weekend we just realised we forgot to bring dried porcini mushrooms and smoked chestnuts home! gutted! We had a senior moment perhaps???
