The ravenous horde came and left a sandy landscape

[lucasantoro]

Hi all,

since i said i was busy preparing my daughter birthday party, i want to share the buffet "menu".

Appetizers:
Sweet italian Salame
Spicy Italian Salame
Mascarpone with anchovies paste
Puff pastry mini pizzas

First courses:
Cannelloni with Porcini
Cannelloni with Pesto

Main courses:
a whole sucking pig
sausage sandwiches

Side dishes:
Beans (i call them spaghetti western way)
Cime di rapa (which in english should be turnip's plant and flowers)
Scarola with Anchovies, olives, raisins... (sorry i haven't been able to find a translation for scarola, it is a kind of lattuce)

Dessert
Lucker tort (a slight variation of Sacker Tort)

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Wow what a FEAST indeed!!!! I was surprised and delighted to see some things on your menu that I myself prepare and eat, such as turnip greens and roots, beans and such! I am interested in how you prepared your beans {spaghetti way?} it sounds different and I would like to try it as I love beans. If you find the time to share please do! And suckling pig OH MY!!!!

[Dixie Girl]

Yea, the "whole sucking pig" made me smile Sorry but I have to ask, was it served with head still attached? We cook our pigs on cookers outdoors all day, how do you prepare yours?

Julie

[lucasantoro]

Normally it should, but i severed the head (saving the cheeks) because it didn't fit the swiss oven.

i'll provide you and Cathy the recipes in the following days...

[mrsjimmyp]

Wow! Sounds like a great party and great food ! Bet your Daughter loved it.

[lucasantoro]

thanks, my daughter turned 4 so she didn't care too much but the cake
i can tell you that the parents of her friends, in other word my friends liked it a lot

satisfying first Cathy request here is the beans recipe

this recipe is a way i prepare beans and serve them as side dish, it has the same creamy aspect of the beans that as kid i saw spaghetti western cowboys eat with a big chunk of bread as spoon :-)


Ingredients:
1kg boiled white beans you can use a can of white beans, possibly one which has nothing more than water, salt and obiously beans)
150g bacon
100g tomato (fresh or peeled)
1 piece of celery
1 garlic clove
1 chili pepper
extra vergin olive oil


Chop the bacon in small cubes, smash the garlic clove with the aid of a kitchen knife blade.
Put in a pan the a splash of olive oil, bacon, garlic, celery and chili pepper. When the garlic will start getting brown, add beans and tomato, mix them, then add a glass of hot water, cover the pot, and let it cook. We want to reach a point in which the sauce becomes creamy.
When you are happy of the result it's tiiiiime to eat!

Buon Appetito!
Pasta e Sfizi

[lucasantoro]

Cathy,

you can find as well the bucatini with cime di rapa recipes on my blog, (Bucatini or Spaghetti with Cime di rapa « Blog) the method to prepare the cime di rapa is the same if you eat it with or without pasta. Actually often instead of pasta we put sausages in it, the outcome taste is great!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Nice menu, Luca! What an event! VERY nice...

[Dixie Girl]

Luca
Hello. The bean recipe sounds delicious. I've been trying so many new recipes this week, my son asked me if I'd joined a new cooking class Told him no, I just found some new friends with great recipes
Julie

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Thank you so much Luca!!! I will visit your site to get the other recipe!

Julie, my fiance' says the best thing I ever did was join SP and he says this after eating another satisfying meal and licking his lips

P.S. Luca I went to your site I saw there another excellent sounding recipe called Asparagus Au Gratin, Wow does that sound yummy!!!