The Foodie-file: Potluck Italian Style
I have been taking Italian language classes for the last few months. Last night we had a potluck for our final class. Everyone brought a little something, and we had quite a feast. The highlights had to be Elsie’s Bouretikas: a sepharic recipe of little hand shaped pastries filled with ground meat, or potatoes or eggplant (I think the eggplant were the best), Michael’s excellent espresso coffee served “correto” (that means with a shot of booze, in this case Sambuca) and my fathers home made prosciutto and dried sausages.
We also had a fresh vegetable salad, a red bean salad, home made tiramisu by Dina and panettone and vino! Oh yes and I also brought Arancini; “little oranges” in Italian – they are deep fried risotto balls with fontina cheese centres, quite yummy.
I can’t say my Italian has improved all that much, but our last night was definitely good eating!
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