Sunday Lunch!

It doesn’t matter how late you got home the night before, or how tired you are that morning. When the clock hits 12 in the afternoon, my siblings and I better be at the kitchen table. Why you may ask? It’s time for Sunday lunch! Yeah we all sit down together during the week to eat dinner as a family, but with everybody’s hectic schedules these days, we can’t help but rush it all the time. That’s why there’s Sunday lunch, it’s strictly family time. No rush, no worries, no stress! Everything else in the word is put on hold and we have time to focus on what really matters most...Family! My mom always cooks what looks like a 20 course meal and expect us to finish every bit of it. I always tell her “Ma why do you cook so much, we can feed the entire army with all this food!” You think she ever listens! But hey why am I complaining I get to eat great with the people I love the most. Yeah it becomes a bit of a pain when I want to sleep in past 12, but in the end I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Grazie e Arrivederci!!

Mangia Mangia Mangia

It’s about time I start talking about the one thing that goes hand and hand with Italian culture...FOOD!! To this day every meal I have eaten is like a feast, you name it pasta, pizza, risotto, sandwiches, meat... we cook it all, better than anyone. We truly are masters of our craft. But food is so much more than simply eating for us, it’s an art. Recipes have been passed down through the generations and have made their way into Italian households, supermarkets and restaurants around the globe. Food is what brings us together, any family function I attend has more food than we can consume. In my house dinner time is family time, so every night regardless of how much homework or studying me and my siblings have, we must stop whatever we’re doing and gather at the table. Usually for dinner my mom prepares either a pasta, risotto or a meat, some sort of vegetables (e.g. rapini), and salad. Afterwards we usually have an espresso with either fruit or biscotti. Some might say it’s a little much but eh, “È una cosa Italiana!”(It’s an Italian Thing!)

Grazie per leggere!