Snow in Rome / was ROLL CALL AND A QUESTION from Mary Therese

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Good post! I was telling my husband about this when the news showed the actual

footage (or do I say 'digital video images' these days?) of your amazing snow

covering! Truly a photographable event! Thanks for the description of it all - I

almost envy your Tampa guests, although my hesitation is because it's unlikely

they'd have snow-compatible clothing and footwear with them. Probably they

didn't mind, though!

 

Gotta say: Love Rome. Every time we see it the magic is new.

 

Hugs,

Pat

 

, Mary Therese Burns <mtburns1 wrote:

>

> Hi,

>

> Guess what? It snowed heavily in Rome for the first time since

> 1986....traffic was a mess and I got to throw two snowballs at a street

> sign, too! Was great for a change from sun all the time, but I wouldn't want

> to have to slog through a whole winter of this stuff....it usually only

> snows once every 15-20 years in Rome and was overdue, I guess. I was

> thinking of the poor guys who dress like gladiators and pose for tourists at

> the Colosseum, they go bare legged, I don't think they went to work today,

> really....we run a vacation home here in Rome and today I had to welcome a

> group of four from Tampa, Florida, and they were really surprised to see

> snow like this, they wanted to get to the Colosseum to photograph it for a

> souvenir, the Colosseum under a cap of snow....it's cold tonight too, but

> not precipitating, if it were, I think it'd snow again, I think it must be

> under freezing from how it feels in the nose when one breathes outside. I

> took photos this morning, have to send them to my mom, she won't believe it,

> Rome like Chicago! I know we've got warm weather in comparison, they're in

> the 20's....

>

> I made a great veggie sauce the other day for friends who0 came over, I took

> a can of crushed tomatoes, an onion, and red pepper flakes, basil, and

> butter and olive oil and a clove of garlic. I sliced the onions thin and

> fried in the oil with the olive oil, till translucent and even a bit golden,

> then added the red pepper flakes, and the crushed tomatoes, stirred, and

> added the basil and butter and cooke dthe sauce down to when it was

> thickened, it went perfectly with some nice fettucine pasta, we ate a whole

> half kilo of pasta in four people, it was that good and spicy , too with the

> red pepper flakes, but not too much, just a little goes a long way. Butter

> makes many dishes taste really great, I will never Italians my secret

> touch...they be aghast if they knew it's butter..shhhhh....

>

> Hello to the group and yes, I read, please don't cancel me out, I should

> post more recipes more often.

>

> Mary Therese in Rome

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