Italian Feasts: Courses and Courses
Discussion
We're very close to an Italian family. Lovely people - a great family and they're Nonno and Nonna to my two sons. Nonno is a retired chef.
Come Chrimbo, Easter, New Year, we get the full Italian experience which is usually two or three courses of each course. Typically, and like today:
Canapes: bacon and cheese in pastry twists, pigs in blankets, these salt-fish deep fried thingies, all washed down with Prosecco.
Primo: tricolore - a lovely avacado, buffalo mozarella and fresh tomato drizzled with a beautiful olive oil dressing. This was then followed by 'Part 2', anipasti - slices of cold meats and cheeses with sundried tomatoes, capers, green beans, artichoke etc.
Washed down with papa's home made (sweet) vino rosso. Fantastic.
Secondo: lentil soup with meat taken from pigs trotters. I loved this dish. Yummers.
Then, Nonna's own Lasagne. We're on the dry home made wine now.
I thought this was it - I was stuffed. But of chatting around the table, more wine (I had some fizzy water in an attempt to release some gas from down below!)
He then comes out with the main course - a rack of lamb served with spuds and peas. More wine.
Then some fruit and a boozy trifle as the main dessert was being prepared: Baked Alaska (Antonio drizzled his and mine with Grappa) and this was washed down with a Grenache.
Espressos to finish.
This was today. We had a similar feast on Christmas Day.
I am truly, FULL of food.
Come Chrimbo, Easter, New Year, we get the full Italian experience which is usually two or three courses of each course. Typically, and like today:
Canapes: bacon and cheese in pastry twists, pigs in blankets, these salt-fish deep fried thingies, all washed down with Prosecco.
Primo: tricolore - a lovely avacado, buffalo mozarella and fresh tomato drizzled with a beautiful olive oil dressing. This was then followed by 'Part 2', anipasti - slices of cold meats and cheeses with sundried tomatoes, capers, green beans, artichoke etc.
Washed down with papa's home made (sweet) vino rosso. Fantastic.
Secondo: lentil soup with meat taken from pigs trotters. I loved this dish. Yummers.
Then, Nonna's own Lasagne. We're on the dry home made wine now.
I thought this was it - I was stuffed. But of chatting around the table, more wine (I had some fizzy water in an attempt to release some gas from down below!)
He then comes out with the main course - a rack of lamb served with spuds and peas. More wine.
Then some fruit and a boozy trifle as the main dessert was being prepared: Baked Alaska (Antonio drizzled his and mine with Grappa) and this was washed down with a Grenache.
Espressos to finish.
This was today. We had a similar feast on Christmas Day.
I am truly, FULL of food.
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