I cooked the Chaldeans a big fat Italian feast tonight with ingredients strait up from the market in Firenze. Cherry tomato, crushed red pepper and sausage pasta, porchini mushroom risotto, spinach and pomodoro noodles with a light herb cream sauce, toasted crusty bread with black truffle spread, sliced salami, sundried cherry tomatoes, and chicken (nugget) parm for the kids.
Because I can't bring myself to buy any more t-shirts and key chains and mini monument statues from the places I visit. I prefer souvenirs of the edible variety.
