A Student's Life

I have had a very busy week with exams and projects and writing.... How do students do it?
I know how I manage it.... with dinners like this:

This is some cauliflower and pecorino stuffed ravioli along with a handful of penne and zucchini all mixed with a pesto sauce.  Just a side note on pasta sauces: it is so easy to make a basic sauce.  Yes, some olive oil, garlic, pepperoncino, add the cooked pasta and some pasta water and then toss in a bit of cheese.  Got it.  Super simple and divine.  But sometimes, curiosity leads you to the prepared sauce aisle at the IperCOOP where you just stare in wonder.  Oh, they have fabulous prepared sauces!  Wild boar, duck, meat with liver, mushroom, olive, you name it.  It's glorious and it's actually one of the VERY VERY FEW prepared foods you will find in an Italian supermarket.

Here you simply do not have aisle after aisle of prepared foods.  Things like rice mixes and soups and one pan casserole concoctions.  They don't do it. 

So the result is that one eats lots of 'whole foods', I guess.  This suits me fine. 

Tomorrow I am off to Florence for CONTINUING Glory and Beauty so stay tuned!!