Trequanda

Last night when I was looking at the food options for today I saw there was a fancy Vegan place a 10 min drive from where we are staying. This afternoon we were talking about what to do for dinner and since it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow and therefore won’t be able to eat out we decided to try it out. I’m so glad we did! It was amazing!!

The restaurant is in this tiny town of Trequanda. We got there a bit early so we walked the loop road around town and that took all of 10 minutes with stops to take photos and such. It is really tiny. So it is a bit odd there is this fancy Vegan place there, but it worked out for us! There were flags for “Beata Bonizzella Cacciaconti Trequanda” all over town so while we were waiting for food I looked up what that was about and found a page with the history of this town. Apparently they don’t know where the name came from, but the town adopted the interpretation “three cups” and you see them all over the place (once we knew this we saw three cups everywhere! They are in the corner of all the building numbers and stuff) and Beata Bonizzella Cacciaconti is from here and was married into a wealthy family. After her husband’s death she bought a farm nearby and used her wealth to help the poor and vulnerable people. She is also said to protect young women - when they are threatened by shady characters if they implore her for help the shady characters temporarily lose their sight! Her body was found entombed in the church and said to not have decomposed, but they found it when bees were seen swarming out of the church wall and when they opened it up they found her with a goblet made of beeswax in her hand. This week they celebrate her life every year so another thing we just happened upon! If we were not here this week and those signs were not up I never would have looked them up and found all this out. So that was fun!

As for the food, it was amazing! We got a polenta trio (mushroom, lentil ragu, and mozzarella and sausage - Raymond had the mushrooms, but the rest was delicious!) and a bruschetta sampler (mushroom, leeks, peppers, and cherry tomatoes - so good!! Raymond again had the mushrooms, but the rest were amazing!) for appetizers then turmeric ravioli with tofu and spinach filling in a cherry tomato sauce and gnocchi with peas and broad bean cream and both were so so good!! Since everything was so good we decided to try the lemon cake with chocolate ganache for dessert and even that was great. I’m not normally a citrus cake fan, but it has a light flavor and paired well with the chocolate. All the food! If they would be open tomorrow I would consider going back again, but alas they are not. Oh well, the weather might not be good anyways.

So today was a great day! We saw all the tiny towns, we recreated some Twilight magic, and ate all the delicious foods! We’ll see what we get up to tomorrow!Baca selengkapnya