Justin Not Bieber: A Taste of Italy in the Montana Winter

Last weekend hubby and I made a trip down to Bozeman to spend time with family, go shopping, out to eat downtown, and have some quality time with my grandma. I love going there, Bozeman is beautiful with lots to do, lots of good food to find, and full of young life and fun happenings as it is a college town. I spent one semester there before I ended up settling in to the U of M, there are beautiful mountains and a lot of rivers. Not many lakes, we have all the lake fun up here in NW MT. Bozeman is kind of like a second hometown to me, it feels very homey, as I lived there for a little while on a few different occasions, and it's where my mom is from so all of her family is there. My grandma lives in her house still (on her own, at 88!) on a road out in the country that my grandpa had put in when they had their house built. Soon after that my three sets of aunts and uncles followed suit and moved out there, so they live right by her, kind of in a triangle

Actually, all four of them built their home out there, pretty cool.

My Aunt Connie and cousin Nichole own an italian specialty food store, All Things Italian, which now has my pantry accustomed to quite a few must-haves and cooking staples. If you love to cook and love italian foods, you'd love it there. I love browsing through all the shelves of goodies and seeing what's new. …After enjoying a very satisfying italian sandwich and a latte

It doesn't take long to fill up the basket. We grabbed the usual pasta and jars of soup, olives, and some awesome chocolate, and this time we picked out some beautiful seeds to start planting. I really can't wait to start growing these vegetables!