Well, it’s spring and Rome is filled with visitors. Just like the days of the canonization out there, it seems as I gaze from my balcony. I don’t know if I like a city so full. I’m a small town kitty and love my peace and quiet, and now I wake up to cars, taxis, horns blaring because someone has parked across a drive or doorway, kids yellling, doggies yapping, and always, those %$!#*!! seagulls swooping and screeching and letting me know that THEY own the town, not lil’ ole me.
Ah, well, I just sit here and drink in the history and gaze at the Doria Pamphilj museum across the street and wonder if I should have been trained on a leash. God knows I can’t go out there now—it’s too traumatic, plus there are lots of kitties out there who aren’t really receptive to an intruder who speaks in French! Hey, I know a few words in Italian, too, like mozzarella, mozzarella and mozzarella.
Mama gives me a taste when she makes pizza and oh, boy, that is heaven. Maybe they’ll take me out in the country where they make the stuff and just let me wander through the farm and watch the guys pulling the curd, whatever that is. Mama and papa visited a mozzarella factory once and mama actually tried to make it at home, but…well, we won’t go there. She used about a gazillion gallons of milk and the cheese came out the size of a golfball.
Back to the drawing board, I say.
But here in Rome, you can find it everywhere and it’s white and soft and juicy and squirts milk when you bite it and it’s just about the best thing on earth with little tomatoes from Sicily and fresh basil. I leave those last two off, but you get the picture.
So even if I am a captive here, I have my mozz!!
That mozz was so, so gooooood….
Low fat? YUCK!
I like yogurt, but only the FULL FAT one YUM! Your Mama is very good to try and make cat food for you.
Luff Mungo
You are so lucky Loulou, your Mama cooks such lovely things for you to sample. I am getting the hang of mozzarella, I like it. But the apes like it more, boo hoo for me.
Just look at your tongue Loulou! Look at it!
Schlurps and luff
Mungo xx
Mama tried to make home made cat food once, but she gave up pretty quickly. Just a little chicken every now and then when THEY are eating it…that’s all I get. Maybe you know–do you like yogurt? I’d like to eat more yogurt but maybe I need the lo-fat stuff.
Hello dear Loulou,
Yum, yum, yum!!! Brian, Binky & I wish we were with the three of you in Roma eating & drinking. We went to our farmer’s market today and picked up some sweet white baby turnips and added them to lettuce from our garden. We bought a brunet cheese from Italia in Seattle a few days ago and this plus, good bread & red wine, was a divine lunch! Tonight, we are listening to the blues.
We miss you, your mama & papa, and wish we lived closer so we could rendezvous more often so…..let’s make a plan!
Hey, you two ought to be here when mama and papa want to spread their wings for a little trip out of Rome or France!!! I would LOVE to have you stay with me for a week or so but mama would be worried that I’d want to go home with you!!!!
That was a DIVINE lunch, I can tell.
Love,
Loulou and love to SASHA!!!!!!
Oh yummy. Fresh mozzarella is the very best. Have you ever had it grilled on a lemon leaf fresh from the tree? Mom and Dad had that at a cooking class they went to in Sicily. They always make capresse in the summer with fresh basil from garden. Enjoy! Hope efurryone at your house has a terrific weekend. XO, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Dear ALL OF YOU—are you really all living in one house???? You lucky devils. Mama is going to pick lemon leaves and grill her mozz as soon as she gets back to the tree. What a splendid idea!!!
Love to all of you–practically a soccer team, no? Any ideas for what a poor, single kitty can do without a garden? Thank heaven this won’t be a long stay…
Oh, that looks so good. We’re jealous.
I’d make one for you is you were here.