Last Monday, I took my very first Italian cooking class. We learned how to make gnocci patate (pasta) and scalopina (veal). This pasta is so amazing and now I know how to make it from scratch. I can't wait to make it back in the States. To make gnocci, you have to mash up potatoes, throw in some eggs and flour, and mix it with your hands. Then you roll it off a fork to give it cool lines and bake it! Everyone in the class was very proud of themselves and we have already made some on our own. The picture is of all of us rolling the pasta dough before we cut it in little sections to make the individual peices. Our teacher is in the foreground and she's precious!
I have also begun to really enjoy the Italian concept of a three hour lunch. Here in Ferrara, around 12:30, the entire city shuts down for lunch till around 4 when everyone opens their shops again. For a while, I just didn't know what to do with myself for that long. Now, I fully embrace sitting in a restaraunt for 2 1/2 hours with a couple friends, eating a piadina and sipping on a cappucino. Caffetteria Spisani is the caffe right outside the building where we take classes and definitely one of my favorite places to get a pastry and coffee or lunch.
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