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Day 2: Delicious Bologna…Part 1

We started our day out with a cappuccino and a croissant but then we went to meet our guide for our ‘Daylight Bologna Walking Food Tour’. If you ever go to Bologna book this tour, trust me you won’t regret it. It was informative, fun, we met some great people from the UK and Ohio… But most of all the food was SO good! It was delicioso!

Daylight Food Tour Bologna

Here is a list of the food we were able to experience:

  • pasta making shop
  • Coffee and pastry at Caffè Tetzi
  • Rice cake (Tipica Torta di Rico
  • Pizza alla Pala (Roman style)
  • Salami Felino, Salami Rosa, Mortadella, Ciccioli, Culatello di Zibello, Prosciutto de Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano and Modena Balsamic
  • Lasagna, Tortellini in broth, Taglietelli al ragù
  • Sangiovese
  • Gelato

We visited a little pasta making company, where they did everything by hand. It was an eye opening experience!

Local talent making the tortellinis
The left 2 pictures are of the tortellini process. Top right photo is of making tagliatelle out of nettle pasta and the bottom right is of the lasagna pasta made of spinach. I had no idea that the traditional Bologna lasagna was made out of spinach (and bechemel and ragu)
I missed taking a picture of the croissants but the coffee was at a local shop that makes you understand why there are no Starbucks in Italy. We then went to a bakery that made a traditional Rice cake that was more like a very firm rice pudding. I’m adding this to my recipes to find so I can make it at home.
I missed taking a picture of the balsamic but one that we tasted was 100 Euro for a tiny little botttle…it explained why our guide panicked when I kicked the table (oops 😖). I hope no one is disappointed that they won’t be receiving a bottle for Christmas, nor the 100 year old bottle for 200 euro either😛

Ok.. Hands down the lasagna made the traditional Bologna way was my favorite of the day. I am going to be searching Pinterest to find a recipe because I have to make this..(and Shannon you would like this… No ricotta or cottage cheese!)

Ok… apparently I was a bit too excited to try my gelato and didn’t get a picture…but be assured that it was amazing!

Lol brief interlude: mighty Poseidon!!! Notice his trident is the Maserati logo? That’s where they got it!

Also, I guess the Cardinal was a bit intimidated by this statue’s grand baguette, so he ordered it to be snipped down. So, our sculptor’s revenge is 400 years later, we stand on the only black paving stone in the entire square to shift perspective to the left and behind to see his original vision.

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