This 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.
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!
ouse 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! 😯
Do we want to talk about it? Pure papal trash. Love it. (the words say “the pope who came from the end of the world”)