Text and images Britt-Arnhild Wigum Lindland
It all started some time ago. I had invited a bunch of friends for dinner and made them what I thought was spaghetti vongole. It didn't take long before I got a comment from Mauro. "This is NOT vongole. When you come to Venezia I will teach you The Real Thing.!"
The next time I came to Venezia Mauro took me to a local restaurant to taste The Real Thing, and I fell in love! Completely!!
While making plans for our week in Venezia this summer, Mauro asked: "What do you want to do while here?".
I made a list, and on top I wrote:
I want to go out in the laguna to catch vongole!
So yesterday we...........went out into the laguna to................catch vongole
The small scallops where not easy to catch. They hide down in the sand, and all you can see are two tiny black holes which they breath through. They can feel your hand coming to catch them, and try to hide down in the sand. Mauro knew theyr way and got them much more easily than we did of course, but after some practice we were also able to get some.
Most of the time I left the camera in the boat, so unfortunately I don't have any good vongole photos, but you can see the first small one Marta managed to catch.
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Hours in the laguna makes you hungry. Makes you starve.
We climbed into the boat again (after some swimming and water playing in deeper water) and drove over to Punta Sabbiono where we had lunch at Ristorante All'Ancora.
What I ate?
Spaghetti vongone of course
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Afterwards our day in the laguna continued, but that is a tale for another day.
