MAXXI - better late than never

We mentioned MAXXI in an earlier blog. It's the massive new art gallery in Rome designed by Zaha Hadid. It's taken a long time to build and has gone well over budget. But we went up there just the other day and it's spectacular. Inside is especially disorientating, which is fun. Most of the stuff inside was even quite good, which is rare.

Frittata-rama!

And this is the best thing we've made recently. I was taught this by a Neapolitan friend. It's basically like an Italian Spanish omelette, and it's amazing. When I first saw it in a shop in Pompeii I didn't know what it was and described it to my friend as a blocco di spaghetti - it's actually called a frittata, but I prefer blocco. It's essentially just cooked spaghetti mixed with egg, cheese, and lots of pepper, which is all fried. We added ham, obviously. You fry it lots then flip it over - ideally into another pan. Quite delicious, but seriously heavy. And very good cold the next day.

Gnocchi

We've been rushed off our feet recently, zooming between Naples, the UK and Turkey. Now we're back and the internet is bust in our flat. It's Ferragosto at the moment in Italy so everything is shut and everyone is at the seaside; in other words, we ain't going to get our modem fixed for a long time! In the meantime, however, we've been making lots of strange stuff. Home-made gnocchi for one:



A happy customer: