The day after Christmas is the Feast Day of Saint Stephen. Little known in the USA, it's widely celebrated in the rest of the world. In Italy it's a public holiday, and the eating continues for the third day.
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| Prosecco | |
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Today's lunch was a small crowd, only 13 people attended. We started off with some more finger sandwiches: gorgonzola and walnuts, and some sort of caviar.
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| The table being prepared for lunch. | |
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Then we moved on to today's big novelty: a mozzarella that weighs a whopping 5 kilograms!
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| The 5 kilogram mozzarella. |
There it is, in the center of the table, next to the finger sandwiches. To give you some sense of scale, here's another picture with a normal sized person in the scene:
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| 5 kilogram mozzarella next to normal size person. |
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About this time I switched from the Prosecco to a Falanghina:
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| Falanghina |
Now we're past the appetizers. First plate is the Lasagna.
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| Lasagna | |
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| Modest serving of Lasagna. |
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For second plate we had turkey. The contorni were broccoletti and mashed potato balls. These are potatoes, mashed, made into little balls, and lightly fried or perhaps baked.
An additional second plate for anyone who wasn't stuffed yet. This is meat in a roll (rotolo) around spinach, eggs, carrots, cheese.
Now we move on to the fruits and dessert. Starting with t
he melon. No, it's not canteloupe. No, it's not mush melon. I don't know what this would be called in the USA. The outside was green. Here they just called it the Christmas Melon, maybe because it happens to be a crop that ripens in the winter, I just do not know.
And pineapple.
And walnuts and hard chocolate cookies and an assortment of traditional holiday cookies.
And finally the struffoli!
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| Struffoli. Deep fried dough balls in honey and candied sugar balls. |
So that was our small lunch. I did miss a few things. For example the "Insalata di rinforzo" from yesterday made another appearance and there was also a delightful home made wine, very wet not dry at all. So we close by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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