Chicken and spinach patties

There is a moment of my working day that I particularly like. I realized it in these days when I travelled to Rimini, when this moment expanded itself from a few minutes to several hours: I’m talking about the road trip – whether to or back – I’m doing almost every day with my colleague and friend, Romina. We meet at the usual place at the usual time, then we do the transfer from one car to the other in a state of trance, choosing one day mine and one day her car. Car sharing is the new black!

Romina gets off the car with a smooth, continuous movement, grabs her bags, locks her car and with the same agility, she sits next to me. Time required: 5 seconds. I’m clumsy even in getting off the car: usually, I stumble in my scarf (I like long scarves which you wrap a thousand times around your neck, not my fault…), I open and close the door several times before I have taken everything – from my bag to my lunch box. I check the radio, the keys and finally sit beside her, buried under more bags than those ladies sitting on the bus with only their nose peeping out from their shopping bags. Time required: one minute…

The morning journey to work is mostly peaceful, a few chitchats and a lot of yawns, sad glances out of the windows to the countryside slowly wakening up, while we have to go to the office. Radio DJ or Radio 101, a few notes and a summary of the previous evening, some curses against highway maintenance works, and we get to the office.

Coming back in the evening, we unleash ourselves! We are a considerable singing duet, our piece de resistance are the songs by Tiziano Ferro and Gianna Nannini (not my everyday music, I reckon, but they are perfect for the road trips with friends!). In the ten minutes that separate the office from the usual place at the usual time, we work off the stress by singing out loud, feeling like the Divas! I was forgetting: we sing atrociously, definitely out of tune… this is the reason we perform our duets just in the winter, with closed windows.

Spinach and chicken patties

Well, to pull the strings of this post, why on Earth are spinach patties matched with car trips? Because car trips remind me of the joyful spirit with which you live jaunts and picnics, with the car full of baskets, a patterned blanket thrown onto the back seat and happy songs as soundtrack of the day. Sooner or later, we will live again that wonderful time of the year when all you desire is a picnic lunch, a basket full of goodies and a blanket to lay on the ground, looking at the clouds running in the blue sky.

Spinach and chicken patties are a perfect idea for a picnic, a mix of vegetables and meat coated in golden breadcrumbs, a delicious trick to have your children eat vegetables. Again, both an excellent choice for the upcoming picnics or a second course to enjoy well seated with your legs under the table, served with crispy fries.

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