Ok, so I am behind on telling stories, so I knew I had to share this one with you…
ok, so Lauren has been telling me about this great restaurant that she wanted to take me too. It was in a near by town and they have this great pasta, shells stuffed with pear, and this yummy sauce, with ham. It may sound a bit odd and for some of you reading this who doesnt like to mix fruit and meat (hum hum Brooker) well she had been talking about great it was. Everything she got to talk to Dan, he asked her "have you taken Gilly to that restaurant with the kangaroo yet?" and she has had to say no. So finally we decided to go. It is called AEolia’s…
We went with a few friends and Danny. When we first got there we had to wait a bit because in Italy restaurants dont open till 7pm and the wait staff was eating, so the hostess (who spoke no English) pointed me in the direction to the cellar. In this cellar, was a wine cellar, the old fashioned kind. It was a kind of tunnel that was dug underground that let’s the cold air come in and somehow that is good for the wines. Then there are huge open holes with grates on top to let the hold air come up onto the streets and somehow this is good, I was told by someone who had gotten the story from a guy who used to work there, sadly I didnt get the full story, but Kelly was really trying to answer my questions. So that was a neat thing to see..
ok so as I am reading the menu, I saw "reindeer, ostrich, beef, kangaroo", so I got the 4 course meal, that way I could get the salad, the pasta I was talking about earlier, and I wanted to try something different so I thought I would go with the kangaroo,Lauren said the same, and then it came with a yummy ice cream dessert with a creme brulee top..so yummy!
Ok so I was eating, and then came my kangaroo. It looked like a steak, cut into small pieces. I think this is a kind of meat that is in small strips, so the cuts looked circular. It was cooked to probably medium rare/ medium the way I would normally order a beef steak. It did taste gamey (I have heard people say this before but I have never tasted it) but it had a strong taste, and was very lean, and very tender, but a strong smell as well. Because I knew how much I was paying for this dinner 26 Euro, so that means about $45, I figured I needed to eat most of it to make myself feel better. So I ate it. Lauren didnt eat much of it, you will find out later why she was the smart one!
so after we had our dessert, we went to pay for our meal. Only in stupid Italy would the credit card machine not be working, and the guy didnt know how to fix it, he barely spoke any English. So luckily our friend Leighann had 60 Euro, Kelly had about 10 Euro and Lauren had $30 in USD, I sadly had nothing, I was just going to put it on my card…Our bill came out to something like 94 Euro, which is about $150. I thought we were going to be running for this meal because we didnt have enough money to cover it, but we did….Thanks the good Lord!
So we get home and Lauren was saying she didnt feel very well. We went on to bed, and then around 3:30 AM he world shifted…She came and woke me up, because she said she had went down stairs to get Danny his bottle and she started to feel sick…We only have one bathroom and it is upstairs and she said she couldnt even make it upstairs so she had to get sick into the sink, and for me NOT to go downstairs…So I gave him his bottle and then she cleaned up her mess and then she put him back to bed. She then went back to bed and woke me up around 7:30 AM because she asked if I could feel Danny because just looking at food made her sick. So needless to say Lauren was on the couch all day sick. Danny and I had some major bonding time! I just felt a bit sick, but I never got sick.
Since I love to google, I googled "eating kangaroo meat", so I learned some crazy things about kangaroo’s. I learned that kangaroo’s arent kept in farms like we keep our cattle. No they are just hunted down in Australia and shot to death, the baby’s are removed from the mom’s pouches and they will soon die from starvation, or from being too cold. (so of course this makes feel so bad for that poor kangaroo that we ate). Then the kangaroo are loaded up on a truck and taken to be made into steaks and stuff. I kept reading and learned that kangaroo meat, when cooked all the way is too tough to eat, so it must be served at medium rare to medium, but if it isnt cooked at the exact temperature that it can put harmfull toxins in our bodies to make us sick…hince Lauren..
Our friend Kelly that went with us, she was smart and ordered spaghetti, but after she told him about our kangaroo story, he said "So is that kangaroo still making Lauren and Gilly hop?" ha ha, get it…hop! ha ha
So note to self, NEVER EAT THE KANGAROO.
I’ve been good RIGHT????
here is part of the marble flooring that has been there since the 14th Century..and that is for my Phi Mu girls….KLTC….!!!! ha ha oh MMM……
