A greedy, gluttonous, goloso post.
I couldn’t even limit it to twenty photos. It’s stronger than me, sugar is.
Here is a revealing post from my first blog. I used to write quite a bit of those. Note the date, almost four years ago. Let’s just say that all the sweet things that followed – some of which you can see in the photos – have made me even more authorised to write a post that ends “I’m fat as a fuck-you”.
As I was assembling these luscious photos, I was thinking about how I can’t say no. The line of thought grew progressively similar to that one from ten years ago when I stopped smoking. As an owner of an addictive personality I knew exactly what happens next. The lid blows over.
And so this morning, as I put just a tiny bit of sugar in my coffee (I trust sweeteners even less), I made a mental note to crush the sugar rush, unroot the sweet tooth, put the crave to the grave, at least for a while, at least by quitting the products that make me ingest much more sugar and corn syrup and who knows what all else than I’d ever need, such as cereals, yogurts and juices.
I could see myself grow angrier and angrier, thinking about how another industry has made me an addict. And how many more there are. Addicts and industries, and it’s all for the money.
Dark chocolate will never grow old though. As for gelato… hmmmmm gelato… Let’s start here. More info in the captions.
The irresistible land of plenty.
Seen In Montalto di Castro. What can I say… Italia!
Table cover in Castagneto Carducci.
The place may be called Sweet Rome in Italian, but this is an Austrian sweetshop in Rome’s Jewish Quarter.
In Siena sis could say: and I gave some gelato to bestia as well.
On top of Rome is Monte Mario and its Zodiaco bar. The happy Americans and I had some granitas and a special coffee for Ms. Sophistication Personified. 😉
There is gelato in Ljubljana too. I will not go into comparisons…
“Torta Ljubljana” at the Ljubljana Market made of typically Slovenian chestnuts, buckwheat, pumpkin seeds and figs (and chocolate).
Not far away is restaurant Ribca and their Chocolate Dream.
And again not far (as if anything is far in Ljubljana) there is Lolita and their version of Sacher cake.
This is home-made all the way and it’s father’s doing.
Here he is with the double 70 cake. Sugar love is in the family.
This cake you better stay away from. It’s poison. 😀 Nah, just a wedding cake. And it wasn’t even tasty.
And now three reveals. The first is amore…
…and his filled pandoro.
Salami?
Yes, but chocolate. Also amore’s doing. No baking required.
This was for amore’s 50. The Slovenian was in action.
And I made strudel with pine nuts because I couldn’t find ordinary nuts in the shop. I thought it would make it unique but then amore said: “Great! My mom always put pine nuts in it.”
Amore’s staple: tiramisu.
Amore’s daughter made this apple pie in a flash. Like father like daughter. She will have her birthday soon, auguri!
It looks healthy but it’s full of sugar. Nice bowl though, amore gave me some for my birthday a few years ago.
This chocolate came for my birthday too, all the way from Slovenia. The symbol is Slovenian carnation, the taste is cranberries and the map is Tuscany.
This one was taken soon after moving in. I brought this chocolate from Slovenia for amore. It says Ljubim te (which is I love you in Slovenian). The roles are not as strictly divided all the time. 😀
Nutella is never kept at home for reasons, but was bought for a special visitor when they had the name campaign. And then she said she didn’t eat sweets. Smart girl. Guess who got to eat that… Photo: MC
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Sweet
I should not have looked at this – now I want so much chocolate.
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Hihi, Dan, serves you right. 😉 I hope you got some!
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Can your father send me that pie?
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Oh, Lisa, even better: he will make you some for sure, all you need is find your way to the very end of the Adriatic sea where there is Piran. 🙂
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We are on our way ⛵️
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Yeah! ❤
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This is just not right…to see a post like this in the evening:) I don’t know what I want more…strudel or tiramisu.
If I’ll eat both – I have to sit on the buckwheat diet for 3 days 😂😂
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Thanks, RayNot. I bet it will be bakery in the morning! 😀
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lol not in the morning :)) but at lunch time yep haha
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OMG, so much sugar :))) Manja, you beat them all! I tried not to look closely on your photos (sorry!), otherwise I would go racing through my cupboards in the search of some chocolate :))
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Bahhah, Mex, am I a tease or what? 😀 But the fact is that as I was compiling these photos, something snapped in me and now I can’t see any sugar since! No chocolate, biscuits or any dessert. I’m only drinking the open juice in the fridge so that it doesn’t go bad and I’m hating it because it’s too sweet. And I’m eating wholegrain oat flakes au naturel for breakfast instead of sugared cereals. I feel better just for that, or so I believe. 🙂
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Now we have a lifehack: if you want to quit sugar, make as big compilation of sweet photos as possible 😆😆 Looks like it had a positive effect on you 😉
I am gone looking for the sugar photos of my own 😆
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Sweet and salty, and wine are my additions. I LOVE dark chocolate. I have a wee bit every day.
Your gelato and chocolate images looks scrumptious!
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Thank you, Deborah. Oh yes, I have a wee bit of everything you mentioned daily too. A glass of wine with the meal and some dark chocolate. I’ll really do my best to eliminate processed food though. I feel it’s time.
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I need to do that with white sugar, and bread. I do limit my “bad” carbs like bread, but really do need to cut it out all together. I just love the crusty breads though!
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That tiramisu…!!!!!
Good decision to treat it like an addiction – I’m doing the same over here! 🙂 We’ll get over it, I’m sure! (Just don’t show me any more Nutella pictures!!! That is my favorite thing….!!! I can eat a whole jar in one go -and feel sick after.)
I don’t use sweeteners – either sugar or nothing. Luckily I never liked sugar in my coffee or tea.
So if Ljubim te means I love you, what does Ljubljana mean? Something lovely? ❤
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Thanks, SMSW. Amore’s tiramisu is the winner. Heheh, what you say is exactly the reason why I don’t keep Nutella at home. Even back in Yugoslavia we had locally made Eurocrem which was just as good if not better. I’ve been drinking sweet coffee and tea all my life. I’ll see what I can do… Good question about Ljubljana. I had no idea where the name comes from (no direct connection with love and loving) so I had a quick search. There are three hypotheses: from Ur-Slav water deity Laburus, from Latin word for a flooding river = aluviana; or from German word for tepid stream, Laubach (in German Ljubljana is Laibach, in Italian Lubiana).
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Oh dear. Like you Manja, I have serious sugar issues. Addicted in multiple ways. A post like this one literally makes me salivate!!
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Hihi, Joanne, I can imagine! However, you burn all that sugar in your variety of ways whereas I just walk. :p
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Yes, but fat sticks to me like glue 😉
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Your father’s cobbler or pie or whatever is right up my alley! And I still want to try that cake with the figs — Gah, that looks righteously good!
At least once a month, I’d fight you for that pretty cranberry chocolate and dive into the chocolate gelato.
Corn syrup is evil and I, too, am a recovering addict-slash-victim.
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Oh yes, Joey, once a month I’ll remember to break all my rules, and I’ve got two pieces of my latest Dark Orchard cake frozen just for this occasion. Just earlier I came from the shop with my new regime in mind and I loved it! It’s so cooool to simply ignore all the sugar shelves – and there are so many. I can see there are two kinds of shoppers: the eco-bio-wholegrain kind and all the rest. And they barely mix.
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I’m definitely in ‘all the rest’ — I enjoy good, nutritious food, but I’m not afraid to indulge 🙂
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Oh yes, induuulge. I love the word already. It’s just that I don’t have limits limits limits limits limits. You see what I mean? 😀
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I do lol
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