Homemade sweets often eaten during carnivals in Napole. It’s the kind that grandma makes at home, something that you don’t see at the cake shop. Milk, lemon and orange peels, dried fruits, polenta, and ricotta cheese. Texture is like baked cheese cake, and very sweet. Grownups can have it with champagne...!
カーニバルの頃に食べられるお菓子。牛乳を煮詰めて、レモンピール、オレンジピール、ドライフルーツ、とうもろこしの粉、そしてリコッタチーズの入った、もっちりしたお菓子。家庭でおばあちゃんが手作りするようなお菓子だそうで、お店では売ってないそう。キリスト教の暦に沿ったお菓子も色々あるのね。
Overheard a conversation between two senior ladies on the bus way back to home from work. One lady said she was worried about her daughter not getting married. "I was worried about her going out when she was young, and was careful not to let her go on date with some boys, but now I regret what I did. If she had more chances of meeting, she would've been married by now." The other lady was telling her that she was embarrassed by her daughter married to a man not from the good family. "Children of my brothers and cousins all married to the people from the good family. My daughter is the only one not married to such a good family. Even my husband's end relatives also married to decent family. I'm so embarrassed." The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. One is not happy about her daughter being single. One is not happy that her daughter doesn't belong to decent family that she can claim to her relatives. Probably both of them were trying to ...
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