Buckwheat Pizzoccheri

     We are still at the water mills. We milled some buckwheat and made it into flour. Then we took the buckwheat flour and made it into buckwheat pasta. The buckwheat pasta was then cooked with potatoes, cheese, and cabbage to make something called buckwheat pizzoccheri. Then we ate it for lunch along with plenty of red wine. It was very good and very hearty! Our hosts only mistake was leaving a half-full bottle of wine next to me!

     Our lunch was rounded out with salad, cold cuts, cheeses, bread, and jam. Dessert was apricot shortbread and chocolate cake.

     We, of course, had some Expresso after lunch. But we found out we could add some Grappa to the expresso and make it into Cafe Corretto! Here you can see Vicky doing the honors.