exotic grocery purchase of the week: 

i didn't even care how much they cost. i knew i must have them.

i also picked up a bottle of this for my mom. (i'd already gotten her a wine bag for christmas; i just needed some sort of interesting wine to put in it. she's a novice wine-drinker, so i think she'll get as much entertainment from the label as she will from the 12.5% alcohol by volume.)

also, you should know that bags of these are on sale at world market for seventy-four cents! i picked up one of each flavor: cheese filled tricolor tortellini, squash-filled ravioli, sundried tomato filled tortellini, and pecorino and potato filled ravioli.

you know, i never realized until today that i really need to consider adding world market to my destinations for grocery shopping. whoda thunk?