oh how I love the markets...

I was so excited our first morning in Rome to wake up early and walk a block away to the market at Campo dei Fiori! It was a beautiful collection of flowers, produce, pasta and various products.

The wonderful bakery next to our apartment.

Inside the bakery.

The butcher.

The cheese shop.

Flowers at the market.



Fresh produce, artfully displayed.



Look how this lettuce is all cut, cleaned and displayed standing up - LOVED THIS!

Fruit vendor.

That night I made a dinner using all our fresh ingredients - pesto (from Levanto) pasta, asparagus, caprese salad, arthichokes and strawberries. Yum.

The next day, I brought the rest of the family to the market. We found this vendor who sold these gadgets that make cool spiral veggies, etc. It actually does a lot of garnishing things with vegetables. Andrew was enamored with the product. We bought it and Andrew has not stopped carrying it around and talking about it. We are going to buy carrots at the market today so that he can use his new "vegetable cutters!" (The vendor gave us a you tube link that shows how to use the product if we forget... http://www.youtube.it/ mercatoportaportese. - just in case you were as interested as Andrew!)