This was our menu for the day
Just beautiful ingredients; just look at that produce!!
Flour for the pasta
Step 1 of pasta making...
Vince grating a pile of fresh cheese for the eggplant parm
Me trying to get the hang of the chitarra (a pasta-cutting tool)
Our group dilligently assembling eggplant parmigiana
Tomatoes sauteeing away for the stracceti
Traditional tiramisu filling (complete with fresh local eggs)
With our work done, it was time to eat!
Eggplant parmigiana
Spaghetti amatriciana
*I didn't get a good picture of the straccetti (was on a shared serving plate)
...and the tiramisu- yum!
Our teacher :)
Vince and I had a short break between our cooking class and our wine tasting class, so our next duty was to head to the Vatican's Visitors Office to pick up our passes for the Papal Audience the next day- exciting!
Checking in with the staff
Our tickets! We registered ahead of time to get our marriage blessed by the
Pope, so we were definitely looking forward to what the next day had in store!
Tickets secured, we headed to our wine-tasting class
We learned some great tips on selecting and evaluating not only
wines from Italy, but wines in general; here's Vince looking studious :)
Needless to say, we were not hungry after lunch, so we took a stroll after our wine class, enjoyed the evening, and went to bed early; we had a big day coming up!
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