More Pasta Please

 In any supermarket anywhere in all of Italy you will find several varieties and brands of pasta.

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 Rows and rows of boxes and bags of pasta.  Pasta with eggs, without eggs, pasta made with spinach 

and pasta with whole wheat!  Spiral pasta, pasta shells, pasta shaped liked little hats and church bells.

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But the one thing you won't find is wide egg noodles to make chicken soup.

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I considered smashing up some pappardelle but decided to give these pantacce a try.  

Looks like someone smashed up some lasagna noodles.

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Mushroom Hunting

I went mushroom hunting with Amore!  But on one stipulation, that it was more of a leisurely walk than a death march through brambles along goat paths (like the first time I was foolish enough to have accepted an invitation!)

 

Oh, there were brambles.  But I didn't have to go anywhere near them.

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 Amore offered to let me cut and gather the mushrooms myself, but I was more content to just point them out.

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As much as I enjoyed the day and the fun of finding funghi, the freezer and I pray the season is coming to an end.  

Shhh.... someone still has the fever.

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