First day in town required some grocery shopping. A few things to eat (favorites I’ve missed), and a few things for the house.
Starting from the back, left to right:
- Cherry tomatoes – sugar sweet and full of flavor. Who needs candy?
- Fresh Mozzarella di Bufala – the real thing
- Whole milk for my coffee
- Granola
- Toilet Paper
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Fazzoletti – Tissues
- Cutting Board – from the “Euro Store”
- Rucola – Arugula, for my salad
- Romano Green Beans
- Gorgonzola Dolce – I can’t find this in Seattle. It’s gooey, creamy and very mild with random streaks of Gorgonzola goodness
- Yogurt – Plain, nonfat
- Liquid Hand Soap
- Beet/Cabbage Kraut – from the Austrian-influenced deli
- Balsamic Vinegar Cream – A reduction of vinegar. I like LOTS of it on my salad! $17.00 at De Laurenti’s in Seattle. 3,40 Euro here.
- Red Pepper – big and luscious
- Plastic bags – 20, to line my sorting bins for paper, plastic, glass and trash
- Bresaola – Thin sliced cured beef. (Also available in horse meat.) Can’t get this in the U.S. because of fears of Mad Cow Disease.
- Nespole – Fruit about the size of an apricot, with a bi-lobed seed in the middle.
- Scamorza Affumicata – Smoked Scamorza cheese, tied with a cord for hanging in the smoking process.
- Bread – also from the deli. Dense, moist, hearty. Atypical Italian, but more common in northeast Italy.
- Pears
Today’s shopping cost 48 Euro ($61 U.S. at the current exchange).
Here’s my “Still Life with Toilet Paper”
(click for a larger view)
And then I had to arrange things in a decorative manner:
