German Ricotta Festival

If the title of this entry is not strange enough, then I will tell you that I am using an older picture of my dear friends Klaus, Petra, and Lutz, to open this with, as it is the best picture that I have. The title includes German because they are, indeed, German. Ricotta, well, of course because we went searching fresh ricotta, and everyone but Lutz had some to eat. Festival, well, it is a festival whenever these three, or only one or two of them come to town.

These three rent an apartment in this complex year round, and one or the other or all of them come for almost one week every month. It is always a celebration for me when they come, and I was able, in an earlier entry, where you will also see this picture, able to visit them in their home near Mannheim.

Anyway, this time we got to go to Caltabellotta together early on a Sunday morning to have a ricotta breakfast. It is almost the end of ricotta season, and luckily there were not many people there this morning, as there was not a lot of excess ricotta to be found. Indeed, it is increasingly difficult to find fresh ricotta in the usual places in town, as the goats are staring sullenly at the milkers bleating: 'Lay off, buddy, it is just too hot for that sort of stuff.' And with temperatures over 100° F. for the last few weeks, it is certainly understandable.

At any rate, we got Lutz to give up his favorite breakfast of Pizza, Arancini, or a prosciutto and fromagio panini at Bar Charlie in the port area to come up to the mountains for breakfast. Lutz hates ricotta, will not even taste it, no matter how fresh it is, but he had driven up the last time he was here just to see the remoteness of the place, and he agreed it would be a good adventure.

As usual, we ate more than we should, and waited for cena time to have a little snack before going to bed. The next morning, we were finally in shape to attack Bar Charlie again, and this, along with going out to pizza in the new pizza place in town, was the highlight of their visit. You can learn more about the new pizza place in a later post, right here at Sicilianmama.