Qualcosa da mangiare

By the time I post this, I will back home in New York (on the plane now), but no roving reporter worth her salt would go to Italy and not post something about food, davvero?

Our find on this particular trip was a ubiquitous item, but new to us: bugie (BOO-gee-ay). Bugie are sheets of crisp pastry sprinkled with powdered sugar. They're usually a bit rippled from air bubbles, especially the best ones. They're sold in most supermarkets; in fact, I discovered them because the man behind the meat counter put some in a bag and told me I needed to try them. They're also pretty cheap, about 1€ per a bag that provides a generous coffee snack for four. But the best ones we ate this week came from a paneficcio (bread store) on the hill on the other side of the river in Turin, the same hill I wrote about in my last post. I also picked up a pizza with prosciutto for lunch and some rolls for the next morning's breakfast.

Bugie!

Breakfast rolls, each spiraled in a different direction

Just down the hill from the paneficcio, we had seen well-dressed women in a pastaficcio (a pasta store) buying things for dinner. I saw the line as a sign of popularity and decided to stop in on the way back to buy something. CZ and I quickly agreed on some spinach gnocchetti, and I was pleased when the woman behind the counter confirmed my choice of walnut sauce to go with it. I make walnut sauce at home, but this was way better!

Spinach gnocchetti, before cooking and being tossed with walnut sauce

So CZ and I had a entire day's worth of groceries, all delicious, as it turned out, and requiring minimal preparation, but not nearly as expensive as eating on a restaurant. Abbiamo mangiato bene!


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