Wednesday was a very fun day for us in Ravello. We went to Mamma Agata's cooking school! Mamma Agata's is a famous Italian chef, and she and her daughter, Chiara, have a cooking school in their home. Their family has lived in the same house for 250 years! It is just down the street from where we are staying, so their view is much the same as ours.
As you can see, we were very excited to get started. We had our own aprons and everything!
This is Chiara in her kitchen.
The first thing we learned to make was eggplant parmesan, So for breakfast we each had some eggplant, pumpkin, and bread. It may sound funny, but it was delicious!
Here Mamma Agata is making the batter for some fritters that we're going to have with our lunch. She doesn't speak any English, so her daughter does all the talking for her.
Chiara is showing us the eggplant parmesan ready to go in the oven.
Mamma and Chiara at discuss cooking tips well the church bells ring in the background.
Mamma Agata doesn't like any American food except Heinz catsup. Chiara said she likes it so much, she will even eat it out of a bowl by itself.
Here, Mamma Agata is cooking Italian sausage with peppers and tomatoes. Yum!
Pasta sauce with two kinds of olives and capers on the left and sausage and peppers on the right.
Doc is getting ready to sample some of the sauce.
This is the view from their terrace. There were just 12 of us in the cooking school so we had fun getting to know each other.
This is part of their garden. They only use the food they grow in their garden for their cooking school.
Doc and I were very happy to be there!
Chicken, sausage and peppers, pasta sauce.
Now Mamma is cooking the fritters.
Very tasty!
Eggplant parmesan cool and ready to slice.
First bite was delicious!
Delicious pasta sauce - I can't wait to try this at home!
Looks as good as it tastes!
The chicken was wonderful too.
No wonder Chiara told us not to eat breakfast and to make no dinner plans on this day. We were so full after six hours at Mamma Agata's, we went home and collapsed for a while. Then we decided we better get some exercise to burn off all the calories we consumed at the cooking school. :-)
So we climbed back up to Ravello and wandered around for a while. On our way home, we took a different path than we ever had before. We saw some beautiful umbrella pines.
And then we saw this…
It is the same place where all the pictures of the famous view from Ravello are made. But, it's from the opposite side!
Love you and miss you both very much!
Sweetie and Doc
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