Today I went to a fresh market and it was so good I had disturbing sexual thoughts about food.
Love Sarah
Seriously, this market in the heart of Centro Storico (just a 5 min walk from the BEST HOSTEL EVER) made me feel funny in my genitals. I spent the first 5 minutes wandering around like a giddy school girl saying Oh-my-gawd about 100 times in a row. This is how all markets should be. Insanely cheap farm fresh produce where the vendors actually let you smell and touch everything.
The seafood ( and their salesmen) was a highlight.
Fresh plucked mussels sold in sea hair laden clumps for only 3euro a kilo. Bargain !
The market is run along several laneways filled with fabulous bakeries, alimentari and butchers. Even "sexy" underwear shops.
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After the morning of market pillaging, I helped cook a mega-feast with Gemma and Brendan (the excellent hostel management, seriously best hostel ever). I think I spent a measly 15 euro and managed to buy enough food to feed an army.
The radicchio in Italy is so sweet and sublime, not even a hint of bitterness. Fresh shelled broad beans + soft creamy ricotta + radicchio + balsamic + lemon = YES !
Finally got my chilli fix - chilli and garlic prawns with calamari. I'm trying to make up for lost time and eat as many prawns as I can now that I have released my inner prawn lover - why was I so retarded for 23 yrs of my life? I don't know. I guess I'll blame my parents.
Mmmmmmm. They even look delicious raw..
MY FAVOURITE - flash fried fresh alici (ffffffffff) courtesy of Gemma. I don't know how to even begin expressing my love for anchovies cooked this way. Not at all salty or oily like their well known forms, fresh anchovies have quite a delicate flavour. Sweet flesh lightly floured and served with a sprinkle of salt and a squeeze of lemon. Buonissimo!
Simon the resident fat cat was quick on the alici hunt.
The feast. And it was only for 4 people. Also: chilli mussels, eggplant parmigiana and Brendan's amazing ricotta stuffed calamari on the left.
Napoli is such a beautiful unpretentious city. If you give yourself enough time to get used to the chaotic surrounds (and learn to dodge dog shit quickly) you will fall madly in love like I did. I can't wait to return, fingers crossed I get to revisit during the yacht season.
Bonus Simon model shot. Meowwwww
George Clooney is EVERYWHERE !
Won't miss him or the perilous traffic
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