yucka.

Today we went to Lake Guarda. It was nice and the area was full of shops. For lunch we went to a small restaurant that served Italian foods but was owned by a German franchise. I was pretty hungry so i opted for a larger dish instead of the regular panino. I ordered a dish called "Dely." It was chicken breasts with salad and sliced cherry tomatoes. I HATED IT. It was not Italian at all. It was just dry chicken breasts that were probably deep fried. They had no flavor at all and I felt like a rabbit eating the lettuce and tomatoes. It's different eating salad here because there are no Italian dressings to add flavor other than just the 2 options of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. So what I did to "enhance" flavor was just grab the balsamic vinegar and dump it all over everything. Needless to say I couldn't wait to get home and make my own dinner instead of experimenting with other restaurants. So after lunch me and Jenny walked around and we found a pastry shop and i purchased a croissant that had a chocolate filling. The other option for the croissants were ones filled with Nutella. Therefore the foods I tried that day weren't completely miserable, because those croissants were AWESOME. I chowed down on them and bought one for breakfast the next day. Then on the way back I took pictures of a deli and all of the pieces of meat that were hanging on the walls for an interesting display of food. I will post pictures up later once i get my camera pictures uploaded...

olives= evil

When we went to the train station there was a small food shop in the corner that served sandwiches, desserts, coffee, and booze. I was in complete awe/disgust that they baked olives into their bread. Awe= because I have never seen anything like that before. Disgust= because I absolutely cannot eat olives. I hate them. Nevertheless, I still took photos of the bread and I entitled it, “The Enemy.” And not too far from the breads were some biscuits that were covered with a layer of custard and then adorned with fruits. Those were pastries I had never seen before as well. They looked really good but I didn’t get any. There were other sandwiches that looked good but most of them were either vegetarian or the meat used was ham, and I am not a big fan of ham. I would prefer turkey breast, but I haven’t seen anything like that here. It seems that the most popular meat in Italy is ham. So when it came time for me to order, I just stuck to the usual, a cup of cappuccino.

KEBAB-O-RAMA

Today during class time we went and explored some of the kebab shops in Verona. It was my first time trying these kebab sandwiches and they tasted great! I was a sloppy eater and had them spilling everywhere. The contents of the sandwich i created were: bread, lamb, lettuce, tomato, ranch dressing, ketchup, tabasco sauce, and some other red hot sauce that looked like buffalo sauce. Those were just the topppings i selected. Additional toppings were: onions, mayonaisse, and cabbage. It was neat to see the inside of the shop because you could see that it wasn't pre-selected, packaged meat that was applied onto your sandwich. Instead it was a VERY LARGE chunk of lamb on a rod that was slowly turning in an oven to keep the pork warm. The man creating the sandwich would razor off chunks of meat from the lamb and then let you select the toppings, much like a Subway shop. Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph my meal but i found a very similar image of what I was eating- except this image is of a thinner kebab- Mine was a fatty.