Italian Thanksgiving

ITALIAN THANKSGIVING

When I was a kid growing up, Thanksgiving was a day to reflect on what we had to be thankful for and to see my family together. After this peaceful moment, of no one screaming at each other, it was time to eat!  ANDIAMO! Now Italians do it all little bit different than the rest, but what else is new.

First we start with:

ANTIPASTO

Antipasto

Lasagna

 

 

 

then LASAGNA  or

MANICOTTI (depending on what you had last year) with

Manicotti

MEAT IN THE GRAVY

Gravy Meats

then SOUP

Soup

Now we get to the Meal:

TURKEY

 

Turkey

STUFFING

Stuffing

ROASTED POTATOES

Roasted Potatoes

BROCCOLI RABE

Broccoli Rabe

and / or ESCAROLE

Escarole


ROASTED RED PEPPERS

Roasted Red Peppers

SAUTEED MUSHROOMS

Sauteed Mushrooms

SAUTEED STRING BEANS

Sauteed Stringbeans

THE BREAD (that Grandma made)

Italian bread

and GOD FORBID YOU FORGET THE SALAD!!!

Italain Salad

To wash it all down, we had:

 HOMEMADE WINE

 Homemade Wine

 and 7 UP (IN THE GLASS BOTTLE)

 7-UP

 Then after the men had a 2 hour nap and the woman cleaned all the dishes, we had:

CHESTNUTS

  Chestnuts

MIXED NUTS

 Mixed Nuts

 FRESH FRUIT

 

 Fresh Fruit

DRIED FIGS

 

 Dried Figs

and FINOCCHIO

 

 Finocchio

 

Then we started the dessert:

 

ITALIAN COOKIES

 Italian Cookies

 

SFOGLIATELLE

 

 Sfogliatelle

CANNOLI

 

 Cannolis

and ITALIAN PASTRY (just in case we missed something)

 

 Italian pastry

During this feast we enjoyed a nice ESPRESSO with

 

 Esspresso

 ANISETTE or

 

 Anisette

ROMANA SAMBUCA

 Sambuca

 

Then after that we needed a little something for DIGESTIVO

 

We went straight for the BRIOSCHI!!!

 

 Brioschi

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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