Why I'm bound for the third circle of hell

At last, much belated, is the obligatory Christina Food-gasm Entry. Mostly pictures because, very fittingly, I must soon depart to the mercato to buy yet more food. Yesterday, the roomie and I were shopping for our weekly sustenance, buying perhaps too much, when we got into a lot of trouble with the cashier. Per accidente, we gave her 90 euro (the confusion caused by paying together, but ah well) when the bill came out to 70-odd. Instead of giving us back the extra and the change, she rang it up at 80 and (inadvertantly, I'm sure) gypped us out of 20 euro. Then she tried to make us feel like we were crazy, and the woman behind us in the line was griping out silly American girls. Whether or not we can speak Italian, that particular sentiment was understood. Vafanculo to you too.


Long story short, I had to summon all my powers of Italian (which are meager, but it's a good thing I've been going out drinking and dancing and speaking to all shades of guido-men, I suppose) and in the end we were given our 20 euro back.


Very nerve-wracking. They had to open up the cash register and count and recount the money, but luckily I learned the word "spiegare" and was able "to explain" in my own hybrid language of Spanish, Italian-pronounced-Spanishly, and desperate sign language.


So, without further ado, some food porn:

Best gelato place in Rome.

To date, I have sampled:

nocciola (hazelnut),

aranciotta (orange-chocolate),

limoncello/pera (limoncello and pear),

mela verde/melone (honeydew and cantaloupe)

and

mango/pesca (mango/peach.)

It's best to get 2 different scoops per cone.

Sorry, no pictures of the gelato. I don't let anything come between me and my gelato.

Kosher Gnocchi as served at Nonna Betta in the Jewish Ghetto.

Kosher artichoke lasagna.

Kosher omelet.

And my personal favorite, kosher risotto with formaggio and radicchio.

I'm getting hungry just looking at it.

Funghi e mozarella pizza.

Thin crust.

DE-lish.

I've done some cooking as well, but photos of that shall be up later. Improv-Italian Cuisine! Tonight we'll be preparing a 4-course dinner consisting of sausage and peppers, fish (for the non-sausage eating variety), and perhaps some eggplant or fried zuchhini, and, of course, pasta, il primo piatto!

As for now, I'm off to sample some Roman sushi!