And on the Marcella front - a few to avoid, actually - the risotto alba style, pg. 255, is a lot of work for not a lot of payout. takes forever and tastes a lot like... rice with ground beef. Also, the Farmer's wife's fresh pear tart I found too sweet - she should have a note (of course it seems obvious now) that you should taste your pears and calibrate the sugar accordingly - but she calls for 1 cup! I would've put in 1/4. and if it needs an "active act of sabatoge" to ruin it, well, then we have a terrorist counter-top Italian oven...
More of an over glorified toaster oven, really.
The Pear Tart looked nice...
but it was really not cooked through in the center. browned on top but not cooked through. Marcella had no indication of what "doneness" was...
But our little oven did manage to make a very nice roast chicken...! (Nigella's recipe, not Marcella's - my Marcella disappointments have led me into the arms of Nigella again...)
And just to show that we are also enjoying the city - a great picture of Castel San Angelo...
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