Another Food Adventure!

The sagras are starting!  You may remember that sagras are food festivals and I LOVE them.  They are such a wonderful Italian tradition where you eat and drink and dance.

 

A couple weeks ago Fabri & I went with our friends Piero & Valentina to the agnolotti and canestrelli sagra in Polonghera.  Polonghera is a small town between Faule and Casalgrasso.  Agnolotti are meat filled ravioli and canestrelli are super thin chocolate cookies. 


We had a really excellent time eating yummy food with them and watching the Liscio dancers.  I have to get a video of Liscio sometime to share on here...

Anyway, after the festival we all came back to Saluzzo for a beer at Baladin (Saluzzo's new microbrew hotspot).  It was a Saturday night so there were a lot of people around and we ran into other Savigliano friends as well.  Good times had by all!


Sunday was Mother's Day and Maria Pia & I decided that we should have a big lunch in Ruffia and spend some time with all the mothers (Maria Pia, Detta, Brunella & Brunella's mother).  Everyone had been through some stressful weeks and we just wanted to relax.

We decided to get a BUNCH of steaks and cook them on the grill.  Fabri, Maria Pia & I went together to the butcher near Ruffia.  We asked if they had any rib steaks available and the butcher said often this good steak house in Savigliano buys them all, but they didn't this time and we had our pick.  He went into the back and brought out a BIG rack of ribs.  To cut them, he grabbed an old fashioned butcher axe.  I had never seen such a thing and took some photos with my iPhone.  The meat was soooooo good.  I know where I'm going from now on!

The weather was amazing and we hung out, relaxed, played with the little girls and even had time for a 3 game volleyball tournament.  I think everyone slept well Sunday night including Olney who got 3 beef rib bones out of lunch as well as lots of other bits & pieces from the table.