Making Tuscan Ribollita!

AUR offers a group called Res grads who help AUR students and study abroad'ers to join in on activities (a lot are free) such as free cooking lessons at their apartment, neighborhood tours, day trips, movie nights..you name it. It is a group of three awesome graduates who are a lot of fun to hang out with. Every Monday they have a free cooking lesson that gets filled up within two hours after they post it. The school thinks that they are only having 11 students each time, but the Res Grads allowed 22 this past Monday for Tuscan Ribolita soup. Students BYOW, but for €3 wine and free cooking lesson/dinner...so worth it!

Tuscan Ribolita is a bean soup. We cut up onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and poured in, dried thyme, bay leaves, chicken broth, diced tomatoes, white beans, and eventually noodles.
Libby, Nicole, Daniella and I enjoyed gelato after downtown Trastevere where we realized is poppin on Monday nights for locals.
It was a tasty night, mingling with AUR study abroad students and making dinner.