Prosciutto e Melone

Cantaloupe is in season, so you see this combination on menus a lot these days.  It's always hard for me to pass up... cool, sweet melon paired with soft, salty ham.  So tonight, I decided to bring the restaurant experience home.  Really, I decided to make something that would only take three minutes to prepare.  Either way, it was lovely.

I love that the fruit aways tastes great here, I love that regular grocery stores bake fresh bread (we ate pieces from a warm loaf), and I love parma ham.  Have you heard of parma ham?  Prosciutto di Parma is worth knowing about.  You're familiar with Parmesan cheese.  It's called Parmigiano-Reggiano in Italian.  Which basically means hard cheese from Parma, a city in Italy, hence the Parmigiano and Parmesan.  It's not just cheese this city's famous for... the ham is just as tasty.  

Ryan and I were ravenous, eating from the same plate, and filling up twice.  He's been riding his bike for at least an hour everyday.  And I, I have no excuse.  I'm just hungry.  Now, I'm sipping spicy Chianti and enjoying this view.  Those flowers, that empty plate and my full stomach, and Ryan, who is watching videos of synchronized metronomes at the moment.  What a beautiful and completely odd way to end a post.