Brown rice with yellow tomatoes

brown-rice-with-yellow-tomatoesThis was the main course of my lunch today: brown rice (which provides healthy carbohydrates, since it has the complete nutrient package from the whole grain) with raw yellow tomatoes. As condiment I just added a little extra-virgin olive oil, with little pieces of garlic and fresh peppermint leaves.

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These tomatoes are grown by my dad’s aunt in the countryside. She calls them “bell pepper-tomatoes”, in fact they look like small yellow bell peppers, and they also have a thick skin, but they are actually tomatoes. I think their color is beautiful, like gold! I’ve never seen these anywhere else, I suspect they’re an ancient variety of tomatoes. This makes them very precious at my eyes: I am saving the seeds, I want to try to plant them next year!healty-brown-rice-with-yellow-tomatoes

Walking around the Vatican

This evening I went for a walk around the Vatican, something I had not done for awhile. Essentially, I forced myself out today, as I’ve been sort of locked in the hasta-per-selfieouse the whole week, due to my sore bones. Near Castel Sant’Angelo there were the usual street vendors, selling gadgets and touristy stuff. The weird thing is that usually they try to call the tourist’s attention saying “hello? hello?”. These evening instead they were saying “selfie? selfie? selfie?”. …”what the fuck?” I tought. I turned and saw that it made sense, in fact were selling these things: telescopic poles to take selfies! 😯

Anyway, there is this t-shirt that I saw in a shop in via della Conciliazione. pope-souvenir-trashDo we want to talk about it? Pure papal trash. Love it. (the words say “the pope who came from the end of the world”)

Third comes this short video that I made. I love so much the area around st Peter’s square. As a friend made me notice, I hang around the Vatican a lot, for someone who sistematically bashes religions. 🙂

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