Tag: Colorful Salad

The Colors of Italy are in a Caprese Salad

Recently I plucked my recipe for Grilled Pork and Potato Skewers from the ensemble collection of a six-course supper with an Italian Flare. The original ensemble offered two beautiful menus, and the Grilled Pork was part of the first collection of recipes.

Six-Course Italian Flair
Antipasto: Antipasto Platter
Primo: Simple Linguine with Garlic Butter
Secondo and Contorno: Vesuvio Grilled Pork and Potato Skewers with Pan-Seared Asparagus
Insalata: Caprese Salad (Today’s beautiful feature)
Formaggi e Frutta: Selection of Cheese and Fruits (can we talk?)
Dolce: Lemon Tiramisu (Coming soon all on its own – promise!) Continue reading “The Colors of Italy are in a Caprese Salad”

A Mardi Gras Feast Fit for a King

Some believe that Mardi Gras can trace its roots to Roman times. The Romans held a festival in mid-February to honor their god of fertility and agriculture, Lepercus. The Lupercalia Festival of Rome held some definite Mardi Gras-like qualities such as drinking, feasting and indulging in pleasures of the flesh. During the Crusades, the carnival-like Lupercalia Festival was adopted as a Christian “last fling” of indulgence before the Lenten period of penitence and sacrifice.

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