30 Minute Orzo Minestrone Soup

When we took our trip to Italy a year ago I fully expected to eat a few bowls of my favorite Italian soup. To my surprise I did not eat one bowl of it over the six days we were there. It was no where to be found.

Does that ever happen to you when you travel to a new country? You have perceptions of the dishes and foods you will find and that is not always the case. I assume a lot of that has to do with the region of the country you are in but I still find it surprising.

This also happened to me the first time I went to Mexico. I walked into a restaurant thinking I would be eating the traditional taco and chips and salsa I ate at home. This was not the case and again the food was different (and by different I do not mean bad but even better then we make it in America ). The flavors and ingredients were the same but the way some of their dishes were prepared was different then the American way of making Mexican food.