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Bringing the Cooking Lessons Home

We left the hotel at the Neapolitan time of 10ish or 11ish and headed back to the town to find some breakfast. We parked in another paid parking lot so Kyle was happy. After breakfast we looked in a couple of shops after to see if we could find a ravioli cutter but still no luck. So weird. It was so nice out again, such good luck with the weather. We found another cute look out area that was apart of the "public gardens" we found in the guidebook at the hotel. It was just a little area with benches and the look out, not many flowers or garden like things. 


When we were walking back to the car we saw this sign on a wood shop and I had to take a photo for dad. I thought it was so clever!

Still on a mission for a ravioli cutter we headed towards Pozzuoli to try and go to their "Costco-Like" or "Walmart-Like" stores they have. One is called Leroy Merlin and the other is Auchan. The one we went to was apart of this huge mall. Kyle and I had never been to Auchan and it was quite the experience. It was grocery store + Target mixed together and was the size of three Costcos it seemed. After we failed again at trying to find a ravioli cutter, we decided to do some grocery shopping while we were there. Kyle wanted to make the pizzettes we made yesterday at home tonight so we got what we needed for that. They had fresh strawberries too for super cheap! They were only 2.50 Euros for a huge basket of them. Plus the basket was made out of wood and had the farm name painted on the side so of course I had to buy them so I could keep the wooden boxes. Naturally I bought 2 boxes and now I'm thinking I should have bought more I love those kind of things

Kyle had homework to do so I started on the pizza dough. Since the market we were at was pure Italian, we had a hard time finding lievito, which is yeast. My first batch of dough didn't work out because the "yeast" we bought was really just baking soda. Thats how good our Italian is, we bought baking soda and not yeast. Nice. So we had to go downstairs to the Conad to pick up more yeast. They didn't sell live yeast so I bought active dry yeast there, the only time I have ever used live yeast was yesterday at the class. I made the dough, which is really simple, flour, oil, yeast, salt and water. I also made the marinara sauce too. which also is very simple, garlic, oil, pureed tomatoes and basil. We bought a basil plant from the Italian market downstairs, not the grocery store Conad. We also got lemons from them too and since its a little family owned market I'm pretty sure the lemons came from one of their trees they were nice and fresh! I love that little market. They are way nicer than Conad, which is the local chain.

Once the dough was ready I called Kyle over to help because this is his favorite part, shaping the dough into little mini pizzas and frying them.

 I already had a skillet of hot peanut oil going. We worked as a team shaping and frying up the pizzettes. Some of them had too much air inside and puffed up really big! 
Once they were all fried up we decorated them with the marinara sauce, cheese and basil just like at the cooking class.
We had asparagus in the fridge and left over peanut oil so Kyle suggested we fry those and onions too. They tasted amazing when they were done!
We did good again and ate like Italians tonight. We had plenty of food left over too so I froze the pizzettes for Kyle to have later once I'm back in New York.

 Mae

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