An Italian Christmas revolves around faith, family and an abundance of food. Throughout the holiday season, food plays an integral part in the celebration. Women spend days, sometimes weeks preparing their family's favorite recipes that have often been handed down for generations. Every region, city, and country town have their own ritual foods for the Christmas season that are prepared in great quantity to be shared with family and friends.
Although the season may start at different times... Read the whole entry »
It is that time of year again, when we are all very busy trying to complete our holiday decorating, baking, and gift shopping before the “big day” arrives, and this is usually on top of our regular, hectic family schedules. It really is amazing that anyone survives until New years! I know that family meals tend to suffer when our schedules become overly busy, and I just want you to remember that a slow cooker is a great convenience to help you get through the next few hectic weeks.... Read the whole entry »
When entertaining for a crowd, it is always a good idea to have a fruity punch as one of your beverage options. For our family Thanksgiving dinner for 28, I chose this Sparkling Pomegranate Punch because I liked the idea of using pure pomegranate juice which adds some nutritional value, and because I love the tart flavor of pomegranates. All punches can be tweaked and the ingredients played around for your own personal taste. We added extra juice to our punch, and added sliced lemons and... Read the whole entry »
We recently returned from a trip to Michigan where we hosted an American Thanksgiving meal for my husband’s Italian family, who oddly enough are all Canadian and who celebrate their own Thanksgiving a month earlier. This is now becoming a yearly tradition since it comes right after our return from Umbria each year, and we do not get back up north for the Christmas holidays. This Thanksgiving family feast gives us all a chance to spend some quality time together with family members we do... Read the whole entry »
I am a big fan of Barilla pasta, so I wanted to share this giveaway with you since one lucky person can win an entire year of Barilla pasta! Saladworks has a goal of reaching 20,000 facebook fans by December 10 and are partnering up with Barilla to give away a year’s worth of pasta. How can you win it? Simply go to the Saladworks Facebook page, like it, and have your friends like it as well. Once Saladworks reaches 20,000 fans, they will be giving away the year’s supply of pasta... Read the whole entry »
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