Spaghetti alla Carbonara

After lots of summer fun in Japan and Hawai’i we are finally home! I kinda had (maybe) a lemon and an onion in the fridge (LOL) so I went grocery shopping at the store nearby. I found a whole bunch of new Italian items. Incredibly enough, I found Del Verde Pasta (spinach tagliatelle, rotini and even dry lasagne pasta!) and La Molisana Spaghetti alla Chitarra! Spaghetti alla Chitarra (guitar spaghetti), … Continue reading Spaghetti alla Carbonara

That night when the hens slept and everybody else ran

It’s night. Like 3 or 4 in the morning. Countryside. Everybody sleeps in the farmstead. It’s the 50s. Simple, hard life. You give to the earth, the earth gives back to you. You have some animals in courtyard to produce eggs, some meat, some milk. Half. The other half, the best half, goes to the owner of the land. Calloused hands and honest hearts. And at … Continue reading That night when the hens slept and everybody else ran