The grocery store, Coop, had 50% off their Christmas goodies :o) Italians know their sweets, and we are getting to know them too! (Torrone, Panforte, Panettone, Cavalucci, Ricciarelli, etc).
New Years Eve I fought falling asleep and around 11:15pm we went out to see how the city was celebrating the last moments of 2010. We knew something big was going to happen because the streets were already getting pretty rowdy by mid-afternoon. By the evening people were setting off fireworks in the streets and several piazzas were pumping music (including the piazza behind our apartment). There was no single large event, only lots of alcohol, the random music, and mini fireworks displays scattered about. Besides being very loud, the firecrackers, which were being lit in the middle of crowds of people, seemed dangerous. Maybe this is just me being crotchety and old. However, it was Seth who slept with earplugs.
The view of the scattered fireworks from one of the bridges. Not exactly Sydney Harbour.
On New Years Day we tried out our pasta maker for the first time and made a batch of fettuccine. I was a bit reluctant to make pasta from scratch, but it actually didn't take as long as I thought it would. With the two of us it took only about an hour and a half to go from eggs and flour to orange sticks drying on our furniture.
Making pasta is in Seth's Italian blood!
The finished product!
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