"Some girls save for shoes, I save for food"

Such was my answer to the deli girl this morning, when she tells me the salami i am about to purchase is actually $59.95 a pound. Now let me explain something to you, I love Salami and cured ham, I mean I love it in a way that I could cover my body with it in all kinds of varieties, take pictures of myself and rub it all over, love it!! But that belongs in a different blog that I'm just not about to write!!


I was in Norcia, Italy a couple years ago and I have to say that's where Heaven is at least where I want to go when I go to heaven! Everything is about pork and salami, i treated myself to this baby:

a delicious variety of hams and salamis, which is all in the same category as far as I'm concerned.

So that's what I spend my money on, so when she told me the price of my Iberico Ham I didn't even flinch, though my heart did jump a tiny bit bit until I realized my boyfriend had walked away for just a moment and had not heard her so then I could relax again. I was as giddy as a 3 year old in front of a cupcake! I pretty much salivated all the way home and still am actually!

You would think I would have ravaged through the package before I even got home, maybe even before I got to the car!

But the truth is, I haven't even opened the package yet, deli girl wrapped in nicely in a brown paper, unlike my other salamis which ended up in a regular plastic wrap!

So then my thought was I'll just spread my three salamis on a plate and eat them slowly taking little bites of each and just lovin' it. I got some Finnochiono and a toscan salami, I forget the name.

So back to my Iberco, now that I have it, I can't find the best way to eat it, do I casually rip it off the plastic and drop it in my mouth? Should I pour a nice glass of wine plug in a foreign movie and savor it slowly for the duration of the movie? Even more important, do I share this moment with anyone else? Should it be a big production where I make the most of it? I do have obsessive compulsive tendencies, well they may be a bit more then tendencies but that's neither here nor there is it? that's not the point but i still feel like I might miss out if I don't make the most of that moment, like it won't taste the same.

I don't know the answers to these questions but I am sure I will think of a way to eat it.......that will probably result in me ravaging through it when I come back home tonight after a yummy meal at my friend's house still feeling a little empty inside like something is still missing.

Thunder Crashing

Maybe it's because I am having a bad day today and I am just bitter or maybe i am finally feeling a little creative, but I thought it was time to finally write in this blog I created a couple of months ago but left empty! Who does that? Start a blog and leaves it empty? No one! Everyone has something clever to say right? This is our new world, blogging, chatting, facebooking?? (is that a new word maybe) Then why was I not more eager to put all my thoughts on here for everyone to see and read.

Well I woke up grouchy this morning and kind of irritated with everything, including this article I am reading in Vanity Fair called "Addicted to cute" it seems like everyone thinks they are original, have the best ideas and are most creative. It's become a competition of who is wittier, cutier, funnier or more original.

Take me for instance, about 6 months ago I was so tired of my hair, it was long and hippyish and never styled and I needed to get it out of the way so I put it in a side pony tail and it looked pretty darn good and guess what I was different! No one wore their hair in a side pony tail, not since 1988! But to my dismay I started seeing all kinds of people doing it! Were they copying me? Did I start up a new trend? Or maybe it was just that I subconsciously did something everyone else was already doing. So I missed my chance at being clever and different.

Then this morning I am reading my culinaria Spain cookbook. I discovered this cookboook series last year in the bargain bin and Barnes and Nobles, and being the foodie that I am just hadtohaveit. I thought again I was so original, no one else would be bothered to buy these, right? So this morning my thunder came crashing again when I did a search for other books in the series and came across a blog based on this series and a bunch of people were posting and knew about them, someone beat me to it! and there went my clever blog!