Here's some food from today:
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Here's some food from today:
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This is why I only put out a few platters of appetizers; otherwise, people don't eat the main meal.
I'm taking a break before I clean my kitchen (which looks like it was hit by a hurricane), and because I can't look at food anymore, and here I am talking about food. :)
I see you guys like mortadella too. My ancestors will be rolling in their graves to hear me say this, but I think I like it better than prosciutto. Is that fried cauliflower at the bottom? I love that. Or is it fried baccala? I see the salad.
I think Neapolitans are great cooks. I learned everything I could from my husband's grandmother. She was amazing
@Salento,
Vice nice gift.
As I'm typing I'm having a cup of decaf coffee and some panettone. Our tastes are the same: Bauli for pandoro, and Balocco for panettone. Sile is right, I think the Motta has changed, or at least the one they sell here has changed. It's the same thing with Nutella. I didn't buy it all that regularly because I just don't have much self-control when it's around, but God it was good. Now, my son bought a jar and it's been in the fridge for two weeks and we've barely eaten any. It's just gross. I even asked at the import store and they said they changed it for the American market.
Non si fa il proprio dovere perchè qualcuno ci dica grazie, lo si fa per principio, per se stessi, per la propria dignità. Oriana Fallaci
Actually it's fried shrimp; you're right, it's baccala in the the silver bowl above it.
I passed out on the couch while everyone had lasagna later on.
I love mortadella, but I also love prosciutto too. The other day I had a prosciutto, mozzarella, and olive oil in Italian bread, sandwich.
We also played tombola, and I took a picture of the board. But some of the illustrations on it might be a little too ridiculous to post on the forum though.
Some Italians do spend Christmas at an agriturismo or hotel, although I don't personally know anyone who does.
They're giving the meal away in the Lunigiana.
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Cured meats with sgabei (fried bread squares)
Flan of pumpkin and ricotta with crumbled amaretto cookies on top
Savory vegetable tarts
Bruschetta with cannellini and capperi cream
Eggplant filled with cream of filbert
onions in sweet and sour sauce
Sformato di zucca e ricotta
Torta di verdura
Bruschetta con crema di fagioli:
Melanzane ripiene
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Cipolle agrodolce:
Primo Piatto
Pumpkin Ravioli and Florentine Crepes
Pumpkin Ravioli with butter, sage, pistachios
Crespelle alla Fiorentina-Crepes filled with spinach and ricotta, topped with bechamel and dotted with meat sauce (or plain tomato sauce).
Secondo Piatto
Zampone or Cotechino Sausage with Lentils-this is a New Year's dish so maybe they have a "holiday" menu.
Roast duck with orange sauce and roasted potatoes
Panettone with Chantilly sauce, fresh berries, dried fruit, water wine.
When my father and father in law where alive they always played Trappola ...........else its Bestia for the rest of us ..........or Chess with my father
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Every christmas since I remember, we had only these deserts......a typical Pandora Panettone, Tira mi su or Pavlova ...........
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meals have always been .......entry of seafood , prawns, oysters, crayfish, etc
main meal was roast Pork .....I rarely saw a turkey
and plenty of different vegies
Also drinks always began with a Prosecco , many different wines and beers.............and ended with a Tawny
có che un pòpoło no 'l defende pi ła só łéngua el xe prónto par èser s'ciavo
when a people no longer dares to defend its language it is ripe for slavery.