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[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome!

wonder if can find Mutti here then, will probably cost a fortune...
had a glass of Cobra beer tonight with crazy chilly lamb dish, delicious, love beer in this pregnancy.
ds dint' have such a bad time with his molars, i suspect maybe it is still the virus? tonsils? or maybe they are the molars.
you all seem like very good cooks, i need to follow a recipe word by word, otherwise the dish fails, and sometimes it fails anyway.
Still hungry off to the fridge.

Hhell in Exeter I used to find passata Valfrutta (at the deli) or I'd buy Sainsbury's organic passata (very good). I couldn't find Mutti, but you might in London.

Molars can be really nasty, though I have to say that they didn't cause my dc many problems. But mil claims that she still remembers when her second ds grew them as a nightmare...

I must confess that I'm a huge fan of kinder as they remind me of my childhood, therefore are the only merendine I buy. They are also quite small, so I think one merendina kinder + an apple (or strwberries) is a good merenda.

If I follow a recipe to the letter it fails miserably. I have to vaguely follow recipes and make up the rest for things to work. Except for Indian recipes, there I need to follow the spices or it all goes horribly wrong (though nothing the oil from the lime pickel can't usually fix).

I think you can get Mutti in the UK but you'll have to ask Franca, she'll know for certain.

I had weird beer con piadina al formaggio cravings in late pg. Very weird as I normally can't stand piadine (a mouthful of flour anyone?)

Ha! Franca got there before me.

I love piadina, but not the romagnola mind you. They also make it in northern marche, but it's thinner and more "a strati". great with erbette and formaggio.

Or stracchino e rucola. No, I'm afraid I won't be convinced

you don't know what you are missing.

sorry forgot the

Nah, I'm much more a focaccia type of girlie.

I have nothing agaisnt focaccia, either. Do you know that panettiere in via San Maurilio that makes the most perfect focaccine?

off via torino. opposite the fnac.

Ah Fnac

Ooh, talking of nutty monzesi (which we weren't, admittedly), I got accosted by a mad woman at the bus stop who wanted to give DD a crucifix. She asked if we were Christian. I said no (not wanting to go into the ins and outs), she asked what we were so I replied non credenti. So she asks non credenti or non cristiani, I reply non credenti ergo anche non cristiani. Anyway she started interrogating me about whether DD was baptised, then when she found out she wasn't started ranting on about DD going to a different place from me, how I was selfish and shouldn't subject my child to that etc. I tried to explain like a reasonable human being but she just kept on ranting. At this point, I lost my patience and told the silly bint that she wasn't baptised because I didn't want her growing into a nasty bigotta come lei. That got rid of her. It really pissed me off though and gave me a horrible feeliing, like she'd tried to put a spell on us or something. TBH I don't know why I bothered wasting any breath on her, I should have known better. I'm just too polite maybe.

! maybe she was just a little bit matta or was she serious?

lol at your mad monzese woman - should have given her a crazy psyco stare - that would have got rid of her.

I had a silly hat and wonky glasses on, that should have frightened her, but then she probably thought I was "one of them" and needed saving.

Now you can see why I was not keen on sending DD to a Catholic school.

Maybe she was just a leghista looking for people of different faiths

Tomorrow I am going to collect my copy of child 44, I read great reviews and ordered it in English. I hope I won't be disappointed.

I think she was serious, she was the zitella sfigata che corre dietro il prete type.

I think if I ever see her again I'll do an irogoshi on her (or however you spell it).

Child 44? By whom? What's it about?

here. I read a good review in La repubblica. It's from an english writer who was born in 1979 !

off to bed. otherwise I'll be told off

Ooh, Soviet Russia. Interesting.

Don't take that guy's advice and don't read Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenytsin is too depressing (and his Russian is appalling too after all that Pushkin). No, no, don't go near it or any of his stuff.

Off to bed myself too, we're supposed to be having early nights like in the old days....

Dh was on computer last night or I would have been on nil in TV. DD seems a bit better and ate lunch after initial protest but I gave her all easy 'fork catching stuff' and left her to it. Spring here and spot teh tourists in dresses , flip flops and who shiver when they go ut of the sun..we are not that warm yet. I think I will start to read more brain books ( like you have to concentrate to read) when I am baby and toddler free. Most I can manage is a thriller even then I have to go back to see who was hanging round with the knife in the hotel or whatever! I got to the end of a book and dh said what was it about - I answered I honestly can't remember !!!! I was an avid reader in the past - oh brain cells come back !!

Brangelina, I actually like Solzhenytsin . His short story La casa di Matriona, I found it beautiful. Read in Italian.

Rosa, yes, I didn't read that much when the dc were small. All I could read were those I love shopping in New York type of things . But it does get better! Glad your dd had her lunch. I'm going to have a panzerotto in a minute. It is cold again here. Argh.