WARMER SEASONS
Towards the end of the Summer season, which we are sure many of you know, we dedicate a whole day of making and then jarring our tomato sauce. On this day many of our family members gather together, mainly at Nonna and Nonno’s home, outside in the second kitchen or garage. Everyone is involved no one is left out, we are all assigned a work station and we get to it. Once it’s all done and bottled at the end of the day with the fresh sauce we have pasta of course!
COOLER SEASONS
Middle of Winter, in our family, we dedicate three full days of preparing a whole pig, yes a whole pig. Which means making our own salamis, sausages, pancetta ect and all these last us all throughout the year. This is another occasion where it brings all the family together where everyone has there designated duties.
We also make our style of different types of stews, soups and also our style of comfort food during the cold winter months.
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
Weather it be Christmas, Easter, birthdays any family get together there is always a large amount of food! From savoury to sweet you name it.
No matter the season, hot or cold, one of our main dishes for any of these occasions is Lasagna. We often make it a couple of days a head, as we let the sauce cook slow for a day, let it cool, we make the pasta sheets and then we assemble.
Any occasion we love our sweets also, one of our favourites would have to be Cannoli, in our family we normally do these with vanilla and chocolate custard, and another one of our favourites would be Crostoli which is made from the same pastry as the Cannoli.