Thanks a lot @Silvia80 for the restaurant tip near Cervinia. Always so many good places to try.
For the moment, Iām enjoying the fresh cooler air as much as the food. Iām missing my guitar though.
I went over the San Bernardo yesterday on my way from lausanne.
I thought Iād go for another round 
hoping to have more pictures from all around the world!
The awful heat never prevents me to switch the oven on and for dinner in a few hours I prepared an anchovies/potatoes pie.
Jason @Ontime such a pity you didnāt take a pic of that breakfast! I love to to get to know the different eating habits from the different countries!
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Oh boy 
I scarfed it so fast, I did not even think to take a photo of that.
Anchovies, 
I have some luck with them. I would try that for sure. I try everything once or three times 
My dads wife used a lot of anchovies and anchovie paste in her food. She was 2nd generation Italian from Long Island New York and made a lot of meals that her own mother and grandmother brought with them from Italy. It was fantastic when made correctly. Unfortunately they do not do it well on the west coast. Yours look yummy in the potatoes. I do like picked herring, different region I think.
For my contribution here is a photo of some street tacos my wife picked up. They got a bit tilted.
Hi @Silvia80 !
No pics today but breakfast consisted of Hami melon (sort of a cantaloupe/honeydew hybrid) filled with banana slices & blueberries along with fresh baked bagels with a cream cheese schmear! Yummy! 
Iām wondering about the heat wave all our members in Europe are talking aboutā¦ here in the Southwestern part of the U.S., we are very regularly experiencing temperatures of 90-105 degrees fahrenheit (32-40.5 celcius) pretty much daily from mid June through Augustā¦ this isnāt a Global Warming thing either! It was blisteringly hot here when I was a child! 
Arizona & the desert parts of Southeast California are even hotter! So, my question is this - is air conditioning uncommon where you live? Iām fairly certain that itās extremely rare for New Mexicans or Arizonians to go without A/Cā¦ pretty much unheard of here!
Tod
What a nice place setting you have set up. The food look so nice. I bet your meals are and very family oriented.
They are! We try to eat together as often as we can!
No, aircon is not common over here. But then again, we donāt live in a desert climate like you have in Arizona - we normally donāt need it.
We used to get one or two heatwaves each summer, which means a couple of days over 30Ā°C and one or two days something like 35Ā°C. This week weāve had several days of 37-38Ā°C, with a lot less cooling at night than what we are used to (min 28Ā°C - weāre used to below 20Ā°C temps at night). Other parts of my country have reached (over) 40Ā°C today - the third time in 3 days that the all time temperature record has been broken.
And another big difference is that this is not dry heat, humidity is quite a bit higher than usual - not super humid, but higher than normal at this time of the year. Which makes it feel even warmer than it actually is.
I work in a fairly new, ānearly energy neutralā building. This week they had to turn down the cooling because they were getting condensation because of the relatively high humidity.
France has also been getting flash droughts, which we donāt know - at all.
But hey, by Monday all will be back to normal again 
Edit: Another way to look at it, which might give you a better idea: I live at roughly the same latitude as Calgary. New Mexico and Arizona are on the same latitude as the north of Africa. Our climate is softer than Calgaryās, itās something like Vancouver with a bit less rain - so very far from NM and Arizona.
Today I had steak and smoked fish tacos with guacamole and cabbage. Typical Mexican style meal in San Diego with rice and beans. One of my customers gives me a meal free here anytime I want. When I cook at home itās usually Mexican, German, Italian or steaks.
How did you eat that burger Tod? That looks amazing but huge.
Haha, I wondered the same! Looked delicious definitely!
With our 12 year old, it was time to have home made burgers today too, but - OH , I didnāt think of this thread and forgot to take a photo!
@SDKissFan Your Tacos look really nice too! And how does it come you cook german too? Is there german heritage in your family?
Thank you, Silvia!
Since I saw your thred I wanted to take a picture of our meal once, but each dayā¦ either forgot it or we just ate some quick thing I wouldnāt have dared to post
But these rolled pancakes with salmonā¦ Yeras ago we made those exact onces too. The only thing is Iām not exactly sure if the herbs were marjoram or something else.
I would have loved to eat your self made Ravioli!
Italian food is wonderful and my favourite cake is italian too, itās like a cheesecake with lemon. I think it was called ātorta al limoneā Also I loved to make my own Panforte Margherita in winter.
Man I am so Jealous, I love fish tacos. The ones they sell at Harbor Fish in Oceanside are the size of burritos , they are so good. TJ oyster bar is a good spot also. Man I love SD.
Well Jeff, it was a challenge but I managed to rise to the occasion!!! LOL!!!
I love picante sauce or guacamole 
on burgers too!!!
Fish tacos! We make our own with salmon, salsa & cole slaw in a crunchy corn taco shell!!! Paired with guacamole and some tomatilla salsa & a cold Tecate beer with lime!!!
We havenāt made those in a whileā¦ Iām getting hungry!!!
Tod
Yes my family is from Esslingen near Stuttgart. My grandparents lived there their whole lives and I used to visit while I was stationed in Germany. I speak fluent German and cannot resist jaegerschnitzel mit spaetzle . If it were my choice Iād be back there. Aber Alles klar u. Wunderbar in California.
That sounds amazing . I like to make shark tacos out here too. You should try it if you havenāt.
The sign of a truly dedicated cook! I cannot bear to turn on the oven from June through August. This anchovy dish looks fantastic, I will try to make it myself ā in September 
(One question: are the fresh anchovies already filleted, or do you have to do that yourself? Is it difficult?)
During these hot times I tend to gravitate towards cold meals, especially for lunch ā salade nicoise, insalata caprese, tuna salad, prosciutto crudo with a few tomatoes and a mozzarella ball on the side, some good bread.
Wow! I never tried and I wouldnāt know where to start from! I much love eating it though
Eh!? 
Do you eat sharks?!
So do weā¦and the good quality of our cold cuts helps. Also good fresh bread is a blessing. I usually cook in the morning to have cold dinners, though not everydayā¦ so for exsmple for next week I planned stuffed baked veggies (with chicken breast in the stuffing), an octopus salade with potatoes and olives, a courgettes/onion pie and a nicoise salade as wellā¦lots of raw veggies as side dishes!
No, theyāre not, we sometimes find the fileted sardins at the supermarket and theyāre good too, though I prefer the anchovies which we buy mostly at the fishmongerās.
Defileting them takes a bit of time but itās not difficult: you remove the head first and youāll see the interiors come along with it, you then follow the lenght with your thumb and it opens easily; at this point you delicately remove the fishbone and wash it under the waterā¦once youāve done a few youāll be able to speed up the process.
Have you ever had the fish known in Italy as āpalomboā? Then you, too, have eaten shark!
Sorry to hear youāre not feeling great Rogier! 
I had noticed you hadnāt been as active recently.
But then I havenāt had a whole lot of time to be on here also.
Hope it improves soon. I know what you mean, I get grumpy in the head when I"m not with my guitar as much 
Challenge accepted @Silvia80 Youāve inspired me to cook!
Iāve got some ingredients for a soba noodle stirfry which I will try to do this evening. Iāll let you know if it happens and maybe share a picture if it turns out alright 
