Pasqua

Easter (Pasqua) lunch was at David's parents house. There was 11 of us, and his mother cooked the whole meal. Of course I totally forgot about taking pictures of the food, this should not be much of a surprise by now. But I can describe the menu, and show you pictures of our two hour digestive walk afterwards. 

Anti Pasto was an assortment of cheeses, breads and meats. We had two Primi Piatti; Gnocchi al Semolino (This is similar to polenta) and  Cappelletti in sugo di carne (like tortellini with a meat sauce). Then two Secondi Piatti; Pollo in padella con piselli (roasted chicken with peas), Agnello fritto, and Carciofi fritti (fried lamb and fried artichokes). For dessert we had a traditional chocolate egg that you smash and has a prize inside, Pizza di Pasqua (a sweet bread only found in this region of Itlay), and cut strawberries  with sugar and lemon. It was all amazing!!!!!

Our dream house with adjacent pool

Ancient window for shooting arrows or dropping hot oil on your enemies

Close up of our dream house

Piazza della Repubblica

A private court yard we wandered into

Looking down at someone terrace covered in wisteria

Bartender gig, April 23 2011

The Saturday night before Easter, David's band Bartender had a gig in town at a restaurant called Bevi Piano. They are a trio of acoustic guitars, and put on a great show!!! They played some of their original music, and some covers. Right now they are in the process of recording their first album, David was in the studio until about 1:30am last night. I took some pictures, and I apologize for the not so great video of the instrumental part of Nirvana's, The Man Who Sold The World. I thought it was still worth including.

Left to right: Svedonio (Gabriele), David & Pincio (Andrea)

Preparing for Pasqua

We took it easy this weekend, because I was recovering from a cold that David had the week before, and now we are preparing for Easter (Pasqua) weekend. Andrea is arriving tomorrow morning and staying for three weeks (YAY!), and David's friend Montu (YAY!, who was in our wedding) is coming with his girlfriend for the weekend. Easter is big here, but even bigger is little Easter (Pasquetta), which is the Monday after Easter. We are having a big party at Fabio's country house, which is about 20 minutes away from Orvieto. This is my first Pasquetta, so I am very excited! And I am sure I will have lots of pictures to share. 


I have had several requests for me to post pictures of food. I am trying really hard to remember to take the pictures BEFORE I start eating it, but its proving to be almost impossible. Sunday night for dinner David and I went to his friend Christian's restaurant, Trattoria del Moro. The food is always amazing! And as you can see, I could not control myself long enough to get any good pictures. I completely missed the antipasto course, which was assorted wild boar cold cuts and bruschetta con baffo. David finished his primi piatti before me, so there is no picture of that ;)

Vino bianco - Satrico from Lazio

What was left of my Umbricelli with vedure grigliate 

David's plate which at one time had Tagliatelle ai baffo e carciofi

Half eaten Mousse al cioccolato e peperoncino

Chocolando

This past week in Piazza Cahen there was a chocolate festival called Chocolando. It was fairly small compared to Eurochocolate which we went to a few years ago in Perugia, but still delicious. I had a hot chocolate that was basically a candy bar melted in a cup topped with whipped cream. They have almost every type of chocolate you can imagine, truffles, liqueur, ice cream, and chocolate bars. Solid chocolate shaped like tools, shoes and moka coffee makers. Eurochocolate is in October, so if anyone is planning a visit, that would be a good time to come ;)

Hot chocolate

Truffles - we got a pistachio one

3 flavors of chocolate ice cream

chocolate liqueur with lemon, pistachio and cinnamon 

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Ristorante Maurizio

Sunday night we had an amazing business/pleasure dinner at Ristorante Maurizio. Maurizio's is owned by David's good friend Claudio Martinelli and his family. The food is to die for, and the company was great! I took some pictures, but missed the antipasto course and my dessert was basically done by the time I could pull my camera out of my purse. After the 5 course dinner, we went to a bar next to the restaurant in Piazza Duomo, and had a "cleansing ale" (as JR put it) while enjoying the view of the Duomo.

Umbrichelli with truffle and bacon

Agnolotti alla Maurizio (meat stuffed)

Lamb, Sausage, Liver and Tortino di patate e broccoli

Pizza bites

Lumachelle Orvietane

Panna Cotta

Il Duomo di Orvieto

IKEA!

Sunday morning we finally made it to Ikea and managed to get everything we need. We are now in the process of building everything, but once we are done I will have some pictures of the inside of our apartment. Italian Ikea looks exactly like the one in Stoughton, except everything is written in Italian of course. On our way to the car I snapped some pictures around our apartment. It was very foggy and looked so amazing.

Our street

Piazza XXIX Marzo

The street behind our apartment

Chiesa di San Domenico

Lilacs