Our Night in the Kitchen

Last night some of the girls and I went to Standa’s, the local grocery store in our town of Trastevere, to buy ingredients for a dinner that we had been craving all day long. We bought bread and baked in the oven for five minutes with balsamic vinaigrette to add some extra taste. While that was baking away we boiled a pot of spaghetti and chopped some tomatoes into little pieces along with bits of mozzarella cheese. When the pasta was done we mixed all of the ingredients with a pesto and olive oil sauce. Some of us sprinkled parmesan cheese on top while others used balsamic vinaigrette to enhance the flavor. We enjoyed our yummy dinner while seating down outside on our balcony and sipping our bottles of Italian wine. The pasta was delicious and we even saved a couple of euro by making it ourselves! During the week we also ate at a cute little Italian restaurant only a couple feet away from the Pantheon called Regalo Di Lorenzo. I ordered the cannelloni dish because it looked the most appetizing to me. The spinach and ricotta flavor was a perfect blend with the creamy red tomato sauce!