Holiday season is roasting season! Slow roasted pork shoulder and crackling, accompanied with a pear ginger sauce, is absolutely delicious! Can’t you smell how good this is going to be already? Roasting is a sure and easy way to prepare a delicious meal that can feed a great number of people with minimal work for the cook. Leaving you more time to enjoy holidays!
The holidays are an excellent opportunity to indulge in certain foods and drinks that one usually gives up or forgets about during the rest of the year. Eggnog, most definitely being one of them.
“Feast of the Seven Fishes” is a time honored Christmas Eve tradition. The traditional abstinence from meat for Roman Catholics has lead to the time honored celebration of a feast of fish. This tradition is still very strong in countries like Italy where the feast is called “La Viglia”, the Vigil.
The custom was brought to the United States by Southern Italian immigrants in the late 1800’s early 1900’s and is still practiced in many Italian-American homes on Christmas Eve today.
This is a butter and almond based Italian wedding cookie,that is tossed 2-3 times in confectioners’ sugar once slightly cooled to coat them and make them evenly white. White of coarse signifying the purity of marriage.