There are many things I love about the Italian summer.
Al fresco dining, trips to the beach, and seeing my
lovely little town bathed in glorious sunshine.
But there's something else that I (literally) just can't get enough of, even as the summer is coming to an end (boo!) and that's gelato.
Gorgeous, glorious, gluttonous gelato. I've always been a fan of ice cream, but the
real gelato experience is something else entirely. Creamy, smooth, flavoursome and absolutely delicious.
It costs about €1.30 for a cone or a cup in my town. I like to 'control' my portions by often going for the cup, but I eat it so often that it's really quite pointless.
 |
| Left- Kinder bueno, Right- Kinder paradiso and Chocolate |
 |
| Yours truly, getting stuck in (and probably dripping it all down my t-shirt..) |
And the choice is definitely not limited to your standard strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and nut. Oh no. As well as the usual, there are also flavours like melon, peach, pistachio and nutella (the latter of which is unbelievably good but oh-so-rich).
 |
| yum. |
 |
| again, yum. |
Chocolate is still one of my favourites however, even though it's a traditional flavour and not so exciting as the others. 'Bacio' (bottom photo, far left) is a chocolatey with lots of yummy hazelnuts, and on the far right, is one of my other favourites, 'Magnum Mandorle'. Chocolatey, almondy and just plain awesome. It's the great big chunks of chocolate in it that really do it for me.
If chocolate based ice cream isn't what you go for, then you could try these instead:
 |
| Watermelon | |
 |
| Coconut |
 |
| 'Zuppa Inglese' |
The last one is literally translated as 'English soup'. Doesn't sound too good does it? Well, it
is a little odd. The best description I can come up with, is that it's quite like trifle. Give it a go!
Buon apetitto! :D
