Valentines Day Dinner menu

[bcfos1]

Well since I have company coming over and I am about to start cooking I thought I would share what I am cooking and how to make it.

This will start out with a nice Insalata di arance or orange salad which is quite simple to make. You need 4 blood oranges, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; 2 tablespoons pitted black olives, 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Wash and peel oranges, remove white pit and leave whole. Cut into 1 cm thick slices.For the sauce, peel onion, dice with olives. Add oil, salt and pepper and add orange slices. Leave to rest at least 10 minutes.

First course will be Pasta col pesto alla trapanese or Pasta with pesto sauce in Trapani style. You will need 400 grams pasta, short, 6 ripe tomatoes , peeled and seeded, 1 clove garlic, 40 grams peeled almonds, 40 grams bread crumbs, olive oil, salt, pepper and basil. Place almonds in boiling water and peel. Roast in oven and cut into slithers. Place tomatoes in mortar and add salt, basil, pepper and clove of garlic and crush all ingredients. Place breadcrumbs in pan and roast. Cook pasta in salted boiling water, drain add pesto of tomatoes and almonds. Sprinkle breadcrumbs and serve hot.


Second course will be Braciole alla siciliana or Cutlets in Silcilian style. You will need 300 grams veal, mozzarella, prosciutto, soft bread crumbs, milk, grated cheese, 1 egg, parsley, lard and salt. Cut meat into 8cm cubes, rub salt, Dice mozzarella, prosciutto, bread crumbs which have been soaked in milk and squeezed, grated cheese, egg and parsley. Place this filling inside each pieces of cubed meat. Place each pieces of cubed meat on skewer with bread in-between.
Place on grill and cook for a few minutes.

All of this will be served with a nice 1988 Chianti Rufina Riserva

[BWSmith]

My wife and I are having frozen pizza. She is picking one up on the way home.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

Originally Posted by BWSmith

My wife and I are having frozen pizza. She is picking one up on the way home.

lol, me too

[bcfos1]

Too bad you don't live closer, there will be plenty left because those two chicks eat like birds.

[BWSmith]

Don't birds eat close to their body weight each day? Are you calling them fat? i am gonna tell them you said that!

[NicoleRussell]

I eat like a pig...my friend bought me breakfast this morning and could not believe the amount of food I put away.

[CritterHouse]

my parents are making filet mignon and lobster tails and chocolate mousse for dessert

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

Originally Posted by BWSmith

Don't birds eat close to their body weight each day? Are you calling them fat? i am gonna tell them you said that!

My bird eats hardly anything ever since he started eating breakfast with us every morning unless its cereal or waffles without syrup. lol

[LuvMyBoa]

My wife had a heart shaped pizza delivered to me with "I LUV YOU" spelled out in pepperoni! lol. She's so sweet