Ciao tutti!! It's been almost a week since my last post due to the fact that we were crazy busy this week and I really didn't have many breaks.

     There were three parties going on Saturday. Two off premises and one on. I awoke at 6:45 to be at the restaurant at 7:30 to load up the truck and head off to the first party(a wedding at the Abby San Pietro in Valle)

     The day started off on a low point when my biggest fear became a reality....I was bitten by a spider!!!!!! I had grabbed a side towel to clean up some egg yolk when I noticed something fly out of it into the sink. I looked in the sink and found a large brown spider. As I was focusing on the spider in the sink I felt a burning sensation in the palm of my hand that was still holding the towel. I took the towel away and there was another large brown spider biting me!! I don't really remember much after that because I think that I blacked out, but I am sure that it involved screaming like a four year old girl, flailing my limbs like a freak and then there was possibly some dry heaving. 

     Chef asked if I was attacked by a scorpion. I just mumbled something incomprehensible in half english and half italian and pointed at the spiders which he then killed. I think that I definitely lost some manly points on this one. Also, now I'm sure that everyone thinks that I'm a little crazy because every time I grab a side towel I act as though I'm about to be attacked again.

     Luckily I was able to put the incident behind me and get on with the day. 

     The event was a wedding at the Abby San Pietro in Valle located between the Marmone Waterfalls and Spoleto. At the event I was told that it was built in the 16th century, but when I looked it up on line I read that it was built in the 8th century. The web sight is sanpietroinvalle.com   The place is amazing and the web sight is cool too. The views were incredible. 

     There was no kitchen so we had to build our own, and considering the circumstances everything went really well. This kind of situation can often times be a suicide mission because Murphy's law is in full swing. There is a list of a hundred things that can go wrong, but this time fortunately we were in the clear. Lots of happy people, including the staff because it was a pleasure to work outside with the scenery.

     I also included a pic of the cheese board. Lots of great cheeses. My favorite was the one on the bottom left. It's called Caciotta alle Vinacce, and is made with a mix of milk from cows,sheep,goats, or buffalo and is aged with crushed red grapes. Money!