Valencia Carnevale and Murano

On February 8th we went to Carnevale with Bus2Alps <-- by the way everyone should use this to book things it was super helpful and had great trips at good prices <--I should get paid for this lol
Venice and Murano were so beautiful as well. Murano is where they are well known for glass blowing and they had glass blown sculptures everywhere. Venice is spectacular. Its crazy how everything is surrounded by water. We traveled by water taxi the whole time. Which brings me to a side story of a crazy cat lady on the water taxi. She had this poor little cat in a basket that was meowing like crazy and she kept yelling BASTA! at it (which we later learned means enough!). It was kinda sad. Anyways we got cool masks and everyone was dressed up. We rode a gondola (which was crazy expensive but ur there so u gotta do it) and walked all around. It definitely isn't necessary to go there for more than a day we were there from 1230 til like 10 but we were ready to leave by 6 or 7.

Topics in Nutrition Through Italian Style Cooking

On this post I will update everyone with what I make in my cooking class!! Look back every week for some deliciousness! All of the meals are less than 600 calories in total and are very filling if you can believe it. Trust me I like food so I wouldn't lie. Comment if you want the recipes!

WEEK 1- Eggplant, bruschetta, fruit salad, and homemade bread with sauteed peppers and onions inside (sorry dont have picture of that)

WEEK 2- Risotto with zucchini, Rice Balls, and a Chocolate Torte with Strawberry Sauce and a Mandarine covered with Caramel

WEEK 3-Fresh pasta with mushroom sauce, Freshly made Calzone Classico, Apple and Peach jam tart with almonds

WEEK 4-Cocoa Ravioli stuffed with brie pears, Chicken with a mushroom, apple and chocolate sauce, Chocolate cake with raspberry sauce

WEEK5- Visit to the Perugina Chocolate Factory

WEEK 6-Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella Cheese Burgers, Fresh baked french fries, Homemade Ketchup, Apple and Raspberry Pastry

WEEK 7- Focaccia algi spinaci (Spinach Bread), Pasta with Turnip greens, Green Tomato Pastries

Sorry I forgot to take pics this week!!!!!

WEEK 8-  Ravioli with ricotta cheese and spinach with tomato sauce, mini cheesecakes, caprese

WEEK 9- Swordfish kebabs, pasta with bell pepper sauce, crepes, chicken with mushroom sauce

Welcome to Firenze

Ok so basically this is because Lindsay wanted to follow me and my journey and since she doesn't have facebook this is how its gotta be. So far so good. Florence is soooo beautiful and actually a lot smaller then what I thought when I looked at it on the map. It was weird first getting here because of the exhausting traveling and then to top it off our apartment was pretty much empty. Not even toilet paper!!! We figured it out though finally. Enjoy the blog!