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hello lovelies.  i never posted anything about my kickass easter weekend, so i will indulge..  this easter i went to a small town in tuscany with the family.  pitigliano is a little bitty cliffside town, where most of the buildings date back to the 1200's.  we arrived and i was immediately at a loss for words (ha, hard to believe, i know).  the house was divine.  high curved cathedral ceilings, carved from stone.  dark wooden rustic armoirs, that have been distressed naturally through time.  huge plush couchs, huge bay windows that overlook the rolling hills of tuscany.  the air smells better, the flowers are more colorful, the food tastes better.  

THE FOOD.  generally speaking, we run a tight ship here in rome.  we don't eat bread (italians who don't eat bread?!) and we usually only have pasta once or twice a week.  for easter weekend we started with a slough of carbonara.  for those of you who aren't familiar, carbonara is traditionally egg pasta with a creamy sauce of egg yolks, parmigiano, and LOTS of cream.  oh and then bacon to top of the heart attack.  we then had asparagus grilled with lemon and grated parmigiano, and a pate of salmon.  the weekend was strewn with homemade bruschetta and fig jam, the traditional "colomba" which is basically big cakey bread, and lots of wine.  we were in tuscany after all...  

easter in italy is much like how my family celebrates in the states.  there is a huge breakfast of cured meats, more colomba, easter eggs (of course), and fruits.  then about 4 hours later we ate the fire-roasted lamb.  roasted right in our fireplace, with rosemary and garlic (we had giovanni's brother pietro to thank for that).  then we roasted some potatoes and smothered them with gorgonzola.  we ate with our hands and drank wine.  it was heaven.