Saltimbocca a la Romana

So despite my bitching about feeling all isolated and all that, these pictures look pretty happy.We were invited to Claudia's close friend Anna Maria's country house for lunch this past Saturday. This was an all day affair. We left here at 9, took a couple hours to get there, Anna Maria and her sister Sandra and her husband Roberto were all in town shopping for the lunch when we arrived. So we met in the square, had coffee and then looked around yet another medieval little mountain village.

When I came outside onto the new covered porch with the view to have wine and chiaouscalo (soft salami) and bread and cheese before the main event, they all commented, "This is Italian living, well not every day, but.....on the weekends anyway." They are all from Rome and these houses have been in the family since the Second World War, the sister's father remembers being there when the Germans came.
Alright, so now I know how to make Saltimbocca, as a kid I remember eatingi tn Italian restaurants in San Francisco. But Anna Maria, said, oh no we don't roll it up, just a thin slice of delicate veal, an even thinner slice of prosciutto and a couple of fresh sage leaves put together with a toothpick. First course; THE PASTA, and indeed, it was delicious.
Today, Wedesday Oct 29th we are expecting Marna, David's half sister to arrive from Turino, but somehow she hasn't really let us know when or where she will be arriving! Oh what adventures............and tomorrow because the teachers are striking, Claudia will conveniently have the day off, so we will all go see what Ascoli Piceno is like. We know there is an exhibition of the not very well known Italian modernist painter Esvaldo Licini there, and we hope to see it.
So, today is the first day we have connection at the house, and it is still not everywhere, just in one room! It seems that the router cannot send the signal THROUGH STONE WALLS, how inconvenient, so Italian.