Dinner

This evening I had booked a fancy vegetarian restaurant nearby to try out. We were sitting at our place and it got pretty cold and started raining, but it looked like there was a chance it wasn’t raining where the restaurant was so we headed off to see…and it was raining the whole way there until just before we got there. The sun was out there and a big rainbow over the buildings and it was perfect! They dried off a table for us outside and we had a lovely sunset view while eating. The food was…just okay unfortunately. We are finding that a lot of places here don’t really use salt for some reason. Like everything would be way better if they added just a touch of salt, but instead most things are kind of bland. It is odd.

We had gotten this typical Tuscan bread to try yesterday and we toasted it up this morning and were so disappointed! Somehow the typical bread is just flour water yeast - no salt! Which…I don’t understand. Apparently forever ago salt was taxed so the bakers stopped using it and never started again, but bread is just infinitely better with salt! You need salt! I saw someone posted asking if this no salt bread was something people actually eat or a prank played in tourists and people were like no, we eat it! Once you get used to no salt it is delicious! I…I don’t get it. You don’t use a ton of salt in bread, just a little bit and it makes a huge difference! Even the bread we had this morning in town didn’t have salt on, but definitely wasn’t unsalted completely, but it would have been better with a bit of salt in top. We did have really good food on Elba (everything was better in Elba!) and that one little Vegan restaurant, but everything else needed a bit of salt (and they don’t have salt at the table to add your own). It is so strange. It’s not like I want super salty food or something, I just want the food seasoned! I still can’t believe their normal bread doesn’t use salt!Leggi altro