Good Old Comfort Food

After being here two weeks now, while we are LOVING the food, my friends and I have started compiling a list of all the things that Italy is missing from home (or if it is here in small quantities it is outrageously expensive)! So far we have:

-Peanut Butter (the mini jar is 3.60 euro = $5ish)

-Corn Chips

-Graham Crackers

-Milk and eggs that are refrigerated (they keep everything out on shelves so we tend to keep the dairy intake to a minimum)

-Classic soup flavors like Chicken Noodle (only lentil soup)

-Bagels (great bread here but Guisy, my Italian roommate, still doesn't understand the concept of a bagel)

-Cottage Cheese

-Salad dressing (they only use oil, salt and vinegar)

-Turkey (prosciutto is the main meat that comes in light and dark)

So if you are coming to visit *cough* MOM/Q *cough* I vote you throw an extra a couple jars of peanut butter and cans of chicken noodle into your suitcase!

Therefore last night at dinner Giusy and I sat and just googled pictures of food that we're going to try making from scratch. She was most intrigued by: the Smore, Peanut Butter and Fluff Sandwiches, and some sort of flavored bagel. Every time I showed her a picture of a new food item she would go, "Oh, buonissimo!"