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Look what you made me do @Syzygies! I now have my very own bigolaro. Now this isn't just any old acquisitive KK shopping channel purchase. No. Our place in Italy is in a town called Padova and one of their specialities is ragu di corte with bigoli. I make that ragu very well, to the extent that Italians ask me for my recipe. The bigolaro is named for the pasta, bigoli, that goes with ragu di corte. It is an extruded pasta, slightly thicker than spaghetti. And the best bit of all? The factory is less than an hour's drive away so we made the trip to Marano Vicentino to pick up this beauty. I hope to have time to try it out on our next trip. I just bought two dies but look what there was to choose from. Wasn't I good to be so restrained?

My husband and I managed to lift the KK out of the car between us. Here is the base coming up the apartment building in the lift. And being wheeled through the apartment once we got it on the base. Here is the KK, spring back in and the couple of tiles that came off in the move re-grouted into place. Lovely bundle of asparagus from the market. Lamb chops followed. Feta and lemon zest enhanced the asparagus. Yummy dinner. Welcome to Italy!