Pa-nono

Aaaah.  Sad remnants of an Italian girl’s snack attack

it was violent

See my Nov blog about lupini beans here :

http://alasagnaintofuland.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/eda-mommy/ 

I got my lupini at Bay Cities Deli on lincoln blvd in lala

 (http://www.baycitiesitaliandeli.com/)

along with a few other ingredients like sicilian orange marmalade, big juicy capers, imported

anchovies, gardiniera, chinotto and sanbitter. I really like this joint. It’s already a huge crawl in

Santa Monica – it certainly needs no pitch – but it gives a good fix to a chick like me who craves

certain specialty ingredients not sold at Trendy Joe’s. (And i won’t do whole foods. I will walk

out with $75 worth of gourmet olives. Fail.)

There’s always a crazy long line at BCD of people ordering Italian sandwiches. Their fresh-

baked bread is very good, and so are their sandwiches, but the popular sandwich among the

native lala crowd is “the godmother”. Oy.

 (É su, or as my m.i.l. would say, feh.) It’s fine, i’ve tried a bite of a buddy’s, but it’s

got sauce and stuff on it that’s just very UN.

As in un-italian.

 This sounds so bad, but i find myself rolling my eyes at the tatooed, faux-hawked people

ordering their LOADED “italian” subs. Who cares? Let people eat what they like, i know. 

It’s bad. I’m such a jerk. 

I suppose the godmother sandwich is more Italian-American than Italian But i much prefer the prosciutto and mozzarella.

with nothing on it. niente. nind’. nud’.

A more perfect panino does not exist (not theirs, the sandwich in general) but theirs is quite

good. Of course when i order it,  it goes something like this:

Can i have prosciutto & mozzarella sandwich?

what kind of prosciutto?

ummm…the real kind…uh..imported, thin.

you want regular mozzarella?

i want mozzarella.

water mozzarella or regular mozzarella?

oh….no no no, i want “water” mozzarella. never heard of that term. can you get the kind my

uncle Massimo makes by hand in his garage? (more on that at a later date.) 

anything on it?

no.

nothing? no lettuce? no tomato?

no! I want a friggin panino. NO salad on it!

What’s with all the options? Certain things should be served almost “omikase” style where the

customer is forced to eat something the way it’s meant to be eaten with no choices. I realize this

is unrealistic. It’s a deli. People order what they like, how they like. But I wish i could

just walk in and order it and they’d know i didn’t want it with shredded polly-o  

merda or the salted kind of mozzarella.  

Prosciutto is salty. It goes with fresh, melty, un-salty mozzarella.

Nevertheless, when they put it together, the imported prosciutto with the

“water” mozzarella, bare naked with their fresh, flaky italian bread, it’s REAL

good.

I gotta take what i can get….m’sint’*? 

 Speaking of dialect, my cugene Roberto is gonna be in town in a couple days. He’s my cousin,

but more like a brother. And a brilliant photographer. He took these pictures of me last winter:

 We’ve been soul kin since i was 6 and he was called “the baby”. We’d

have sleep overs frequently, where we’d torture my sister in her sleep. More on that later.

But he’s a bit of an expert on italian dialects and how to spell ‘em, which can be weiry weiry

treecky. I need a coaching session from him. Or maybe just one of his epic hugs. 

Posts to come on his visit….can’t wait to see him and have sleepovers all week. And we don’t

have to beg our parents this time…maybe this time we’ll torture Andy in his sleep. . Ti vog’ buen

assai**.

 

*ya hear me?

**Bari dialect for ti voglio bene assai, pronounced tee-vog-bwain-ah-SIGH. I love you very much.

 

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