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My wife loves Italian food... On her arrival from China, my wife was resistant to eat anything she was unfamiliar with. I took her around to several Asian markets where she could buy products with Chinese labels. Little-by-little she has selected foods from the local supermarket, meats, fruits and vegetables that are different from her normal diet. Yesterday, she wanted to buy lamb and I phoned an Italian market 2 miles from our house. Yeah... they have it. This place has an awesome variety of more than Italian. We found 20+ different types of pasta! I bought Italian bread that is much better than the supermarket we normally buy from. Although we didn't buy any Italian pastry, I showed her some of the beautiful pies and cakes. No authentic baker is complete unless you have Cannolies. Note the spelling is different places. One 'n' or two, it's the same pastry. I explained every time my brother comes to Miami, he visits this baker and stops by with Cannolies! They also have a farmers market and both of us agree the vegetables are better. Somehow nearly all of the loaf of bread was consumed and we still had some other shopping to do. So today, we decided to visit the natural reserve where the 5 turtles live and feed them the rest of the bread. They were literally jumping over themselves to grab bits of the bread. Was it that good?  Another trip back to the Italian supermarket for bread and I asked my wife if she wanted anything else. Yes... she pointed to the Cannolies. I got some without the powdered sugar. We came home and split one and she is now hooked on Italian Cannolies! Every week I try to let her taste something she hasn't tried before and she's taking it all in stride. Italian style pasta also rates high on her list now. |
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BK, agreed. We eat freshly prepared meals. Nothing canned or frozen. Italian food won't be a steady diet I'm sure. Good pasta... yes, without cheese and meat. The exception is, I want her to try meat lasagna at least once. Lemon chicken in a Fettuccine cream sauce... is also on the list.
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