I have been unable to find a certain pasta I love, which are pasta shells. I'm having a dinner tonight for all the ex-pats and I wanted to make stuffed shells (a favorite dish!) for them. A few key ingredients necessary for stuffed shells are:
1) The pasta shells
2) Ricotta Cheese
Well, first I could not find ricotta cheese...then I found it earlier this week! Whoo-hoo! It's called Queijo Tipo de Quark. I basically bought several kinds of cheese until I found the ricotta. Ingredient #2 - FOUND!
I looked at 2 different grocery stores in Horizontina for the shells. No luck. I decided to drive to Santa Rosa (about 45 minutes away) to go to Nacional. I figured it wouldn't hurt to see if they had them. I was 99% sure finding the pasta shells was only a dream. Well, I found them in the pasta aisle. I couldn't believe it! I did a little shriek then the happy dance. People were staring, but if they only knew!!!!
Then, as an added bonus, I found Roma Tomatoes!!! I can use them to make a homemade pasta sauce tonight. So, all of my ingredients have been found and now I can make a real Italian-Brazilian recipe of stuffed shells!
Yippee!!!! Photos of my finds attached!
Um abraco......Mollie
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