Monday, Sept 18. Did you eat something special?

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First night in Italy. Pizza, pasta, and wine, of course, at some little outdoor cafe near our hotel.
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Now to bed, after spending 24 hours getting here.
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Couldn't have chosen better!

Looking at the ingredients, I was about to ask: "Are you in Umbria?" Then I got a close-up of the writing, and realised I didn't guess exactly, but I was close! It's not too distant.
 
I'm having the last of the veggie hash w/the last of the zucchini/onion/pepper mix w/the last of the vegetable soup. I wiped out a shelf in the fridge! Mr bliss is having a full meal salad with caesar dressing or tomato dressing. Snacks: dehydrated pineapple or banana or apples.
 
I'm going to re-purpose some of the l/o rot chicken for Taco Salads...Flour Tortillas baked to a shell (in forms), then I'll layer (freezer) refried beans, Mexican Rice, Chicken (seasoned & reheated with salsa and spices), greens, more salsa as dressing, cheese, sour cream, guac...and it will be dinner! Fun stuff, actually.
 
I was all set to make something with spinach, but I hadn't decided on what. So, I went downstairs to the kitchen to check on ingredients to make sure I had enough of whatever to make one of several dishes. I found the beet greens. I had forgotten them and they needed a lot of sorting. I decided on a dish that usually uses spinach, but beet greens would likely work. It's a pasta dish with blue cheese, pears, pancetta, and walnuts (I didn't like the walnuts with this so I used pecans. They were inoffensive, but I could hardly taste them. They were good for texture.). I'm sure I have some pancetta in the freezer, but a quick look didn't locate it and I wasn't up for a big hunt. I was going to use some bacon lardons, but I found that I had three packages of lonza, just past their best by date. So, I used one of those. I used organic spelt fusilli as the pasta.
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It turned out really good, like last time. Next time, I'll try pumpkin seeds instead of the walnuts or pecans. We both ate too much.
 
I had a Wild Boar Sausage for lunch with broccoli 'n cheese and a couple of potato galettes.

So for supper I boiled some water in a measuring cup, added the noodles, cooked those then added the flavour pack which I carefully cut open with scissors. After successfully mixing with my chop sticks and recklessly adding a handful of freshly dehydrated parsley, I took the measuring cup with me to the table. Using a fork and spoon, ate my soup and noodles right out of the measuring cup.
 
I'm going to re-purpose some of the l/o rot chicken for Taco Salads...Flour Tortillas baked to a shell (in forms), then I'll layer (freezer) refried beans, Mexican Rice, Chicken (seasoned & reheated with salsa and spices), greens, more salsa as dressing, cheese, sour cream, guac...and it will be dinner! Fun stuff, actually.
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