foods, fruits, fabulous favors!

As in all foods in Italy there are MANY different varieties of mushrooms. This is a street vendor selling some we have not seem before.

 We made the bitter/bean soup. Those two ingredients compliment each other and make a wonderful dish.( We used the whole bag of greens to make a medium bowl of soup.)

 This is a new fruit we have never seen or tasted before. We are unsure of the true name but we think we heard it called zimforo. A member offered them to us . They are very sweet and a unique flavor--- They look like a brown olive, which is what we thought they were. They reminded me of cherries. But not really. They have a pit like an olive, texture of an Asian Pear inside, and very sweet like a date. We have been looking for them ever since we tasted them---still have not found any! They are VERY tasty!

 I was instructed on how to open a pomegranate and eat it. You cut the top and bottom and then cut down each ridge, it opens perfectly.

 A new fruit as well. It looks like a tangerine inside , the color is as you see. They taste like a tangy clementine. Like a grapefruit/ clementine. I really like them! Clementines are coming on and they are really sweet!

 It is hard to believe how quickly food spoils here, so here is proof. This is the beans and greens soup a few days later. It is amazing, the mold was up to the lid, white fluffy stuff! Yes, it was in the fridge!

Off the balcony of a members apartment in the late afternoon, it  was a nice, clear day.