{"id":102,"date":"2007-12-17T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2007-12-17T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T09:40:00","slug":"back-from-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Back from Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monza<\/a> was beautiful and it was magical to get a weekend away, courtesy of Mark’s job. My favourite time was spent traveling to lake Como and wandering around the city, where I found some beautiful advent calendar images for readers of this blog:<\/p>\n

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After wandering around for a bit we ate Polenta in a little restaurant; I had mine with a celery, tomato and pork stew and Mark had his with Porcini mushrooms. The Polenta<\/a> was served almost like mashed potato in a pleasing mountain of starchy goodness. This was very sustaining for walking in the cold air . After this, we ascended the mountains by lake Como, via a Funicular railway and walked around in the snow. The views over the lake were breathtaking.<\/p>\n
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Before flying back yesterday, we browsed the markets where I was totally amazed to find huge, candied fruits, including cantaloupe melons.<\/p>\n
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I didn’t even know such things existed and have since learned<\/a> that candied fruits are made by steeping fruits in increasingly stronger sugar solutions until the water content of the fruit is replaced by sugar. A basic recipe for candying small things is available here<\/a>, but it sounds rather time-consuming and sticky.<\/p>\n

I didn’t purchase a glace melon in the end because I couldn’t see what use I’d have for it and I don’t like to eat very sugary things, but I did buy some chestnut flour and myrtle berries and have some post-Italy gnocchi cooking planned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In other news, a recent knitting project has been completed during the weekend away, but since it is a gift for a friend, I have posted about it on Ravelry rather than here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monza was beautiful and it was magical to get a weekend away, courtesy of Mark’s job. My favourite time was spent traveling to lake Como and wandering around the city, where I found some beautiful advent calendar images for readers of this blog: After wandering around for a bit we ate Polenta in a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-1E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}