Fw: Sunday July 29th morning after

It's the morning after the day before the wedding.  Everything last night went very well-lots of food left over.  First

we had antipaste: sliced and cooked eggplant -cold-2 slices per plate, molded fresh ricotta timbale and 1 slice each

of two different kinds of paper thin meat.  Prosciutto and something else.  Each was plated and looked very pretty. 

Then we had pasta with pesto and grated parm.  No parm in the pesto so was added to the big bowl and each plateAll

was garnished with chopped, seeded tomatoes.  Of course lots of wine.  

The Bread:  I saw the 2 men carry 2 huge bags (the size of 50 lb. potato bags) of just baked, very large loaves of bread.

The Cost: Each loaf weighed 2kg at 4euro each.  We got 10 loaves for both days.  Remember, the wedding is tonight.

So each loaf weighed over 4 lb.(450g=1 lb) and cost about $6.  Very nice bread.  We're serving slices of it this morning

to the overnight guests with Miriams' homemade marmalade.

Last night I left since I really wasn't an invited guest and went to the only establishment in town-a bar.  I sat on the terrace

and drank 3 beers and was served 3 bowls of munchies.  The beer cost 1.5euro each.  Then I went to Uncle Mario's 

apartment and sat out on his terrace-very lovely out there with a nice breeze.  Then fell asleep.

Got up at 6, came back to make lots of espresso for the guests and to look at all the leftover food!.  The kitchen help

has arrived and are cooking the potatoes.  I don't know how they will prepare them.  The sausage (some of it) was used

yesterday to make the bolognese for tonights' pasta.  Not sure how they will prepare the rest of the sausage.  They don't use 

tomato paste in their sauce.  They do use carrot, celery, onion, white wine, tomato sauce from a jar (Russo), lots of salt, 

basil leaves.  It turns out to be a very smooth sauce and with the added grated parm. it does fast good.

Carla made the eggplant parm. but I have to say it looks all dried out or over baked.  I would leave town if I cooked it.

But maybe it'll taste better than it looks.  And Robby liked my pesto better than his moms.  All in all, I think everyone is

very pleased with the cooking that I have done.

So I sit up in the storage room now to stay out of everyone's way and the internet works up here.  But there's no window

so get pretty hot.

I will be going for my first day off to Salerno on Monday or Tuesday otherwise if I stay I will always have lots to do.  For the past 2 weeks I have been 

very busy for 12-14 hours a day, every day.