The crud, i.e. not being able to breathe through my nose properly woke me up again at 6am. I capitulated around 7am & popped a coupla Sudafed. We learned the hard way to bring US cold meds along with us every summer, lest we’re left treating our colds with Bach flower extracts or similar useless shite. Ima big believer in Better Living Thru Chemistry, at least when it comes to cold meds 
Next thing I knew it was 1pm: time for a lavish brunch at home. Spent the rest of the afternoon doing laundry & cleaning our pad in preparation for my bestie coming to visit us tomorrow. It’s raining cats & dogs here, so the day didn’t lend itself to any scooting excursions anyway.
Since we’ll be dining out the next couple of nights I made another lazy pasta meal for dinner tonight: sautéed a bunch of garlic and three small sliced shallots in olive oil, toasted a blob of tomato paste, added a splash of Primitivo, a glug of Divella passata di pomodoro, a generous amount of capers, a sliced up zuke for extra veg, and a bit of pasta water. Finished the tagliatelle in the pan & served with grated parm.
SALAD on the side: same arugula treatment as last time, ‘cept for parm instead of pecorino.
Had a lovely Nero d’Avola rosé with it.
