Today I slept in until half 11 and then got up and did lots of accordion practice. I had a lunch of salad and bread before doing more practice and some reading. The afternoon soon disappeared and at 6:20 I went with the Beltramis to their cleaner's house for dinner. The five of us were joined by Kleidi, Ivana's sister & nephew, Julia (the cleaner) and her husband, Gianluca. The meal started with antipasti - salami, bread, pancetta, pickled cauliflower and roasted peppers.
The next course was pizza. Julia and Gianluca have a homemade, brick, wood-burning pizza oven - a work of art, I must say. We all filed downstairs to the basement garage to admire the oven and watch Julia assemble the pizzas. They just kept coming; topping of ham, tuna, salmon, vegetables, sausage, mozzarella. I ate so much and was already full when I was told there was a meat course next! This consisted of arrosticini - lamb on skewers - and mixed meat kebabs (all cooked in the pizza oven) as well as chicken cooked in crushed cereals. After a small break came dessert: tiramisu, cake, pear & chocolate tart and a fruit jam tart. Just when we thought it was over, and I was fit to burst, bowls came out for strawberries with sweetened cream and/or ice cream. I couldn't finish mine!
When the food finally stopped Gianluca brought out lots of old coins, which he, Claudio and Kleidi spent a while looking at researching. I think there were some fairly rare and valuable ones in there!
We left at 11:30 having eaten like kings! We had better food than most restaurants, and in abundance, and we didn't have to pay a penny.
Massive thanks must go to to Gianluca and Julia for a fantastic night, brilliant food and being so welcoming!
Salve x
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