We made three sauces, or gravies if you will, for the Italian Feast Dinner. I had an Irish mother who learned to cook Italian food from her Italian/Sicilian mother-in-law, but my mother still called "the gravy" the sauce. So that's how I grew up calling it "the sauce" instead of "the gravy". Three big pots of sauce for 25 big appetites to feed. So here they are and they were fabulous.
Red sauce with homemade meatballs and braciole.
Fresh clam sauce (recipe in an earlier blog)
Fresh spinach and portobella mushrooms in a garlic olive oil sauce.
And hey, you can't eat pasta without Italian bread, right? You need something to sop up all those sauces. So, I made this ciabatta bread with garlic cheese butter (Wegman's) and fresh Pesto (Costco). Cut the bread in half, spread with garlic cheese butter then spread the pesto on top of that. Broil until melted, browned and crispy, slice and serve hot. Yummy!
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