we lunched at haberfield last saturday, where we discovered that the most innocent-looking vegetarian offerings at pasticceria papa might be harbouring bits of meat. tiny chunks of chopped-up schnitzel amidst the chopped-up tomatoes on top of a particularly springtimey pizza, for example. or two enormous meatballs concealed within a “broccoli and potato” schiaciata. but because none of us are actually vegetarian, we ate every last crumb, even the ones that the kid generously graced with scraps of salami off her salami pizza.
she is all about salami these days. and ham. and bacon, she told me, she loves the best, although i think it’s really ham. how much salami should a kid eat? surely italian kids (or spanish, or hungarian… and wherever else salami come from) eat quite a lot of it?
before lunch, we stopped by zanetti 5 star deli, and bought olive mortadella, and pickled octopus, and a packet of little starry pasta. we sat on the the steps out front eating mortadella, which, after an initial uncertainty about the olives, went on the list of approved cured meats.
and then after the cold cuts, and the pizza, and the gelato, and the ricotta cannoli — oh wait, that was me! — the kid requested soup for dinner, with her new starry pasta. here’s what went into our minestrone pot:
onions
garlic
salami
celery
carrots
cabbage
a potato
two bay leaves
a couple squirts of tomato paste
chicken
chickpeas
frozen peas
cherry tomatoes
the stars baby, the stars
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i found more than half of the schiaciata in the fridge last night. don’t think the boy liked it as much as the salami pizza…
it’s official, i’m marrying a 3 year old.
heh.
mortadella is my FAVOURITE.
mortadella is like grown up baloney.
stars are cute.
Going to napoli in bocca in 1.5 hours!
deb: heh. we can get together for him and maeve to have a play date. š i guess *we’ll* be fighting over the schiaciata though.
nellie: you will have to fight at least two of us for the mortadella. perhaps the kid will give you her olive slices.
sue: oh lucky! have you ever had the stuffed calamari? we went there for pizza once, and then when the table next to us received their three plates of stuffed calamari, we realised we had made a mistake.
i’ve never had baloney… is it like devon? actually, i’ve never had devon either.
how funny is that. we did indeed order the stuffed calamari. and a pizza. and linguini with meatballs. for 2 ppl. We took the pasta home. The calamari was good, but I would definitely share it! It was HUGE.
Very Very visually appealingā¦great presentation