Recently

So after a huge scare with the housing office where they told us we will have to live on the base, Jake and I are set to sign a pre-contract for the apartment this Wednesday. Recent successful dinners: Risotto with Radicchio and Smoked Mozzarella; Sausage, Potatoes, and Artichoke Hearts in Tomato Broth. This weekend we spent a night in Naples and did a walking tour of the churches in the historic district. While waiting for our table at another famous naples pizzeria, Sorbillo, we went into the Enoteca next door and bought a liter of wine, tapped from a huge wine keg for 3euro. We were given plastic cups and drank wine on the sidewalk surrounded by serious Italian pizza eaters as we waited to be seated. On sunday we went to an agriturismo (a restaurant/hotel that only serves food from their own farm or surrounding farms) with a large group of navy officers and their wives. After touring the land and taking in the stunning view, we sat down for a four hour parade of food. We had roast peppers with capers, a meat and cheese platter, marinated zucchini, a potato and ham thing, a zucchini and egg thing, potato skins, rigatoni in a creamy tomato sauce, gnocchi in a mushroom cream sauce, roast pork with broccoli rabe, chocolate almond cake with fresh fruit, espresso, limoncello, not to mention endless bottles of their house red wine. We were sure full!