Your favorite Italian meal? All courses.

[maveric]

Antipasto salad, lima bean crostini, roasted peppers, sauteed mushrooms, Veal Parmigiana /meat sauce over fusilli, grated pamesan cheese and olive oil on the table, cannoli for dessert.
And Bolla Valpocello<sp> wine.

[JimmyJazz]

1. I'll have whatever Soteric or Progmom are having -

those two sure know their menu options :7

[progmom]

14. That is a compliment of the highest order.

Thank you.

I love me my Italian food. See my post below.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Are you an Italian from Lawrence?

:D

[maveric]

3. Half Sicilan on Ma's side. Irish on the Old man's side.

Typical Merrimack Valley mix.

[Beer Snob-50]

4. simply yet elegant

spagetti with olive oil and raw garlic, salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and cannoli from la florentines.

[maveric]

6. Where you live in MA?

If you dont mind my asking.

[Beer Snob-50]

8. i live in ludlow nt

[Burma Jones]

5. Pretty Nice

Roasted/Grilled Vegetables with some very fatty proscuitto
Gnocchi with Truffles
Something with Grilled Seafood
Something with Pork
Pears, Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese and Honey for dessert

[maveric]

7. Damn! Can I eat at your house? That sounds GOOD!

Ma used to make her own gnocci. We kids would help her mix and stuff them with cheese, spinach and pine nuts.

[Burma Jones]

11. It would be a long trip.................

Although I get to SD from time to time, well, Pendleton to be more specific. I had gnocchi for the first time - I'm so ashamed - at age 40, when we moved to New York. I love the stuff. I get Truffle Oil from Trader Joe's. I can get Truffles, but they're damn pricey. The Seafood and Pork are whatever's good when I'm out shopping. We're fortunate enough to have a first class Italian grocery store in Gaithersburg, MD of all places, but Trader Joe's is the best place to get high quality stuff at low low prices.

[fluffernutter]

9. Antipasto, minestrone, veal parmesana, stuffed shells

crusty bread with olive oil and a good chianti. a little spumoni ice cream for dessert.

[bif]

10. 3 bottles of Italian red wine

[progmom]

12. mmmmm....

I want to go back to Rome. Eat at La Piccolo Arancia - it's on this little alley off the Trevi Fountain. They have tables outside, and serve the most wonderful orange-scented ravioli. Or the Penne Arabiata at La Buca di Ripetta - just off the Piazza del Popolo.

Oooh - or in Florence. There's an osteria on a side street by the train station where the menu is written on a chalk board and no one speaks any english. I had an excellent avocado and zucchini salad, followed by panne pomodoro - which is basically mushy bread with tomatoes. It was excellent. Then for dessert - a banana torte with hot chocolate sauce.

Right across from St Peter's Square in Vatican City there's this place that looks just like a generic fast food joint, but they serve the best pizza margheritta.

[Spinzonner]

13. Lima Beans are the food of Satan

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. Gnocchi alla Panna,

Bread with olive oil and balsamic for dipping, Sausage and polenta, and a thick, disgustingly rich Tiramisu.

And don't forget a big ole bottle of Bardolino!

One of my favorite meals of all time was at Il Bargello on Piazza Signoria in Florence, right across from the Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizzi and all the other monuments. One of the most amazing days of my life.

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[KurtNYC]

16. Start with tomato, basil and mozzarella on crustini

with a little balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
A full blown Caesar salad with shaved parmesan and anchovies, maybe some roasted peppers
A glass of juicy Barbera
bread straight form the oven
Pasta with proscuitto, sun dried tomatoes etc.
veal marsala with mushrooms
tiramisu and/or cappucini flavored gelato
biscotti
coffee

[LeighAnn]

17. Menu

Minestrone and a grilled mediterranean salad, bruschetta, a cavatelli appetizer, lasagna, tiramisu and cannoli for dessert (one of them eaten before the meal, in case I don't have room after all that food).

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Hm.

Start with a simple antipasto of raw veggies, salt, and olive oil. Next comes sweet potato gnocchi dressed with butter, fresh peas, and some pecorino. For my meat, I'd like a nice medium-rare veal rib chop, please. Or a rosemary-encrusted pork tenderloin with a rosso di montepulciano reduction. Dessert will be a 375 ml bottle of good vin santo. I'm full enough that I don't need any more solid food.


Either that, or just give me a gigantic portion of bollito misto; and don't even THINK of serving me anything but the finest bottle of Barolo in your cellar. ;)

[RedCloud]

19. Sofia Loren!

that's a one spicy meatball!

[mcscajun]

20. A perfect meal

Hot Antipasti consisting of: Arancini, Sausage-Stuffed Mushroom, and Shrimp Oreganata

Caesar Salad

Penne Pasta with Broccoli, Garlic and Olive Oil

Veal Marsala, Sauteed Spinach with Garlic

Lagrima Christi wine

Warm Zabaglione with Biscotti

[flvegan]

21. Veal?

Wow.

[maveric]

22. Little Baby Cows with big soft eyes.

Held in pens where they cant move....
Oh yeah, I love Veal!

[Name removed]

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[maveric]

24. Food Chain

[flvegan]

25. No. Sorry.

Open, well-known cruelty, the torture of animals, existing only to provide a specific type of luxury is not even food chain related.

Then, to make light of it...

Yeah, doesn't say much at all.

[maveric]

26. Chickens and other fowl live and die under the same circunstances.

Do you feel the same about them?

[flvegan]

27. Absolutely.

Fact is, some folks feel that they NEED eggs or chicken. I can respect unenlightened decisions. I respect the rights of folks to make those decisions. However, veal is a no-brainer. If you understand the cruelty behind it, yet take part, you advocate it.

BTW, check my screen name...flVEGAN.

[maveric]

28. So you are like anti-choice/ furry animals?

Same thing.
Are you flaming the others in this post who said that they like veal? I'm sure they are aware of the conditions. I just spoke my mind and it enraged you.
C'mon.

[flvegan]

29. You can do better than that.

I replied to the OP, you. I'm not flaming anyone, as my posts have been nothing but civil and respectful, thank you very much.

Show me my posts suggesting I'm enraged, please. This is discussion, and you have become defensive.

I can't respond specifically you this most recent post of yours "so you are like anti-choice/furry animals" as I don't know specifically what you mean by it.

C'mon to you, now. Where were we...

[Missy Vixen]

30. It's a calorie bomb

I love Italian food. It was hard to choose one meal, that's for sure. The runner-up choice would have to be gnocchi.

Bruschetta
Green salad with shaved parmesan, pears, and walnuts
Spaghetti Carbonara, my husband's recipe
Tiramisu

Of course, I would also be looking for a nice Pinot Noir to go with my meal. I can't believe that wine pretenders everywhere saw "Sideways" and are proclaiming love for PN that they used to have for Merlot.

Did I mention that I also love pizza?

Julie

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. I ADORE Merlot!

And will still adore it even after I go see Sideways, which I still haven't seen yet.

:D
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