An Italian Thanksgiving

Yes it's that time. An Italian Thanksgiving is right around the corner for us. One of our favorite Italian bloggers, Gary Macchioni at Penn Live, just wrote an entry on Thanksgiving, Italian Style. Since we enjoy reading Gary's stuff, we hope you do too. So here's an excerpt from his entry on Italian Thanksgiving. You'll have to visit his blog to read the rest.

When a Turkey arrived at our home for Thanksgiving, it did not come frozen in a plastic bag, it arrived with attitude. It was very much alive and ready to run. From that experience, we learned first hand about the reality of how meat arrived to our family table. It just had more meaning that way.

On Thanksgiving, Italians did not live by turkey alone; we always had a side dish of pasta with red sauce. It may have been stuffed shells, homemade lasagna, or gnocchi. My mother made that ahead of time and reheated it before the big meal.

A big Italian salad was always on the menu. The dressing contained 1 cup of extra virgin olive oil, ¼ cup red wine vinegar, ¼ cup balsamic vinegar, fresh basil and/or oregano, garlic powder, salt and ground pepper. A typical dressing recipe calls for three parts oil to one part vinegar. However, in our house, salad was vinegar powerful. Click here to read the rest.

Comments

[Dominic]

It's all true! We will again be having lasagna before the turkey!

One year I'd like to cut to the chase and stuff the turkey with lasagna! ; )