Food glorious food!

As you probably expected, I ate a lot this weekend. I feel it is my duty to eat everything and then report back on it...all in the name of making this blog a more informative and interesting place. So welcome to my (apparently) weekly food post!

Sadly, I didn't remember to snap any pics of the several pizzas I consumed so you get none of that. However I can (and will) tell you all about them, how's that? The fact that I ate 2 entire pizzas myself doesn't necessarily mean that I'm quite the pig I sound. The pizza in Italy is much smaller than its USA counterpart. It's about the size of a large dinner plate. The crust is very thin and not greasy at all. They use maybe a quarter of the amount of cheese that is used on American pizzas. It isn't sliced for you and you don't pick it up and eat it with your hands - you use a knife and fork and eat it very proper-like. If you want to read more about authentic Italian pizza, click here.

Now on to my pictures...

The first picture - we didn't actually eat any of those ham hocks you see dangling in a tantalizing fashion beyond Mr X's head. We just wandered from booth to booth ogling all of the great items and on occasion we had some samples that were being offered. Mr X likes to sample any kind of meat he can but I tend to shy away from it because I'm not the biggest fan of cured pork or meat in general. It's just a bit too strong for me and something about the texture doesn't agree with me. Just take Mr X's word for it that the meat is fantastic.



The next picture - oh yes, I definitely had a few servings of this good stuff. I tried pistachio and some crazy sounding one and a Baci flavored one. Whenever we get gelato it's always a competition to see who ordered the more delicious flavor. Mr X almost always wins, often because I can get a little too adventurous with my selections. Mr X's new favorite? A flavor called Nutellata. I tasted it and I concur, 100%.

Sometimes in the late afternoon when our feet were aching and we were tired, we would go to a little cafe and order some hot chocolate or some herbal tea or mineral water. Mostly I had tea but once I ordered the hot chocolate. Normally I love the hot chocolate over here because it's darker and not very sugary so you can really savor the chocolate flavor. But this particular hot chocolate, while delicious, was just way too thick for my taste. It was nearly the consistency of stew so it might as well have been chocolate soup. Now, I'm sure you're thinking that I'm crazy for not liking it because who wouldn't love a delicious bowl of chocolate soup? Normally I would too but I was just so thirsty that it wasn't working for me on this particular day. (But I drank most of it anyway...)

And finally, a panini from a street vendor. A satisfying, quick and cheap meal on the go. It's kind of like a pizza sandwich. Mr X kept referring to the Tower of Pisa as the "Tower of Pizza" much to my chagrin, so it's fitting that we got a pizza sandwich to munch on while viewing the tower of pizza, right?