Dinner Recipes?!


Question: Well my husbands family is coming over for dinner next week and I dont know what to make. We havent seen them in years so I want it to be special? They live in Italy so I was going to make something Italian any ideas? I want a appitizer, main course, second course, and dessert. any recipes you have would be greatly appreciated or ideas.


Answers: Well my husbands family is coming over for dinner next week and I dont know what to make. We havent seen them in years so I want it to be special? They live in Italy so I was going to make something Italian any ideas? I want a appitizer, main course, second course, and dessert. any recipes you have would be greatly appreciated or ideas.

There's a difference between Northern Italian and Southern Italian cuisine/dishes.

Northern Italy tends to go for those localized dishes w/o any tomato sauce.

Southern Italy tends to be associated with the traditional Italian dishes.

Don't guess. Ask your husband for suggestions. AND ask his opinion about one or more of thm come early to help you. You MIGHT JUST get some "extra points" and get on their better side.

As far as my preference, I prefer traditional southern Italian dishes: lasagna, veal parm, bracciola, pasta etc.

Appetizer: clams casino - easy to do: finely chopped and sauteed onions, green peppers and pimentos or red peppers. Top with a small piece of raw bacon and bake in a 450 degree F. oven until the bacon is done the way you like it. If you prefer well done bacon, you can always put the clams casino under the broiler to finish cooking the bacon.

Other suggestions: Prosciutto and melon.

Pimento and anhovies

Antipasto

Chicken Cacciatorre

Baked ziti

Hot or sweet Italian sausage w/ pasta

Mussels in red or white sauce.

Squid or octopu with pasta.

Spaghetti Caruso: Red pasta sauce with sauteed chicken livers and mushrooms.

Chicken Parmesan - same as the vel parm.

Dessert: Italian Rum Cake, cannolis and/or spumoni.

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  • Here ya go:

    Appetizer: Antipasti platter with pepperoni, salami, mozzarella cheese, olives, marinated artichokes and mushrooms, etc

    1st Course: Pasta e Fagoili Soup and Caesar Salad

    2nd Course: Lasagna

    Dessert: Tiramisu

    Aperatif: Limoncello or Persecco

    Pasta e Fagioli:
    4 tablespoons olive oil
    2 garlic cloves, minced
    1 16-ounce can Italian plum tomatoes, drained, chopped
    2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
    1/2 teaspoon dried basil, crumbled
    1/4 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
    1 15-ounce can cannellini beans (white kidney beans), rinsed, drained
    Salt and pepper
    8 ounces elbow macaroni, freshly cooked
    Grated Parmesan

    Heat 3 tablespoons oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and sauté until brown, about 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and cook 5 minutes. Add parsley, basil and oregano and simmer until tomatoes soften, stirring occasionally and breaking up tomatoes with back of spoon, about 15 minutes. Add beans and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Place pasta in bowl. Toss with remaining 1 tablespoon oil. Pour sauce over and toss thoroughly. Serve, passing Parmesan separately.

    Good luck and have fun!

    I wouldn't cook italian...you're setting yourself up for a pretty big compare if they live in Italy....
    Maybe do greek! Souvlaki, Greek Salad, Rice, Potatoes and baklava!

    Spaghetti ala Bolognese

    INGREDIENTS
    1 pound lean ground beef
    1/2 pound sausage
    1/2 medium onion, chopped
    1 cup milk
    3/4 cup Holland House? Red Cooking Wine
    3 beef bouillon cubes
    1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
    1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
    1 pound spaghetti, cooked

    DIRECTIONS
    Chop ground beef and sausage until well minced. Cook onion, beef and sausage in a larger skillet over medium heat until pink is gone, about 6 minutes.
    Add milk and simmer until almost evaporated, about 4 minutes.
    Add red cooking wine and beef bouillon. Simmer about 4 minutes.
    Add canned tomatoes and tomato paste. Simmer about 15-20 minutes until sauce is thick. Serve with cooked spaghetti.


    Blueberry or Cherry Dessert

    INGREDIENTS
    1/2 cup butter
    2 cups white sugar
    36 graham crackers, crushed
    4 eggs
    2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    2 (21 ounce) cans blueberry pie filling
    1 (16 ounce) package frozen whipped topping, thawed

    DIRECTIONS
    Melt the butter or margarine, and add 1 cup sugar and the graham crackers. Press this mixture into a 9x13 pan.
    Beat the eggs. Gradually beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla into the eggs.
    Pour egg and cream cheese mixture over the graham cracker crust. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 15-20 minutes. Cool.
    Pour blueberry or cherry pie filling over the top of the baked dessert. Spread nondairy whipped topping on top of fruit. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

    Run off a copy of the following suggestions for future use:

    1. Dinner recipe videos, turn on your sound and click this link:
    http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/CookingScho...

    2. Foil-Pack Dinners-turn on your sound (video):
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    3. Favorite Brand Name Recipes:
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    Take a look at these recipes from Campbells:
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    20-Minute Meals:
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    4. In a rush? Smithfield, Hormel, Armour, Tyson have packages of PRE-COOKED beef tips, roast, pot roast, pork roast, chicken, ham, meatload. Use this for your meat dish with a side dish or two of vegetables, rice, or potatoes. You will find these packages near the meat section, they are not frozen. Ask a clerk for help.

    5. Tyson's fully cooked whole chickens are delicious. I serve them often with S&W canned sweet potatoes, Stove-Top dressing, microwave chicken/turkey gravy in jars, a canned vegetable, canned cranberry sauce, and frozen Pillsbury Microwave Biscuits which are better than I can make. A frozen pie defrosted and fully cooked. Perfect for one or two people at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

    6. Another thing you can do is cook in a slow cooker or a crock-pot. You put the meat into the crock-pot in the morning and it cooks all day long. The meal is ready at dinner time. Crock-pots can be bought at your grocery store, WalMart, Target, etc. BE SURE to read the booklet that comes with the crock-pot.
    Here are some crock-pot recipes for you:
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    Beef Recipes in Crock Pot (see other types of meats at the very bottom of this link):
    http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/beef-...
    .
    Chicken Recipes in Crock Pot:
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    TEXAS crock pot recipes:
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    7. If you are in a hurry, go to your grocery store and pick up a roasted chicken that you can buy in the deli section. They also have side dishes such as veggies, salads, desserts, and etc.

    8. Frozen dinners are always a good choice. Our favorites are Stouffer's, Marie Calendar's, Michael Angelo's, Boston Market's. Just add a side dish, salad, or fruit salad. Desserts can be bought in the bakery section of your grocery store.

    9. Ragu Sauces- Italian (in jars, just pour it on).
    Scroll down this screen, click a category and then click "Find Recipe" at the bottom of the screen:
    http://www.eat.com/recipe_landing.asp

    10. Quick put together desserts:

    Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk videos-turn on your sound:
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    Kraft's Chocolate Passion Bowl (video):
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    From:
    http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1813,1521...
    8 MINUTE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE
    1 Keebler graham cracker crust
    1 (8 oz.) tub Cool Whip
    1 (8 oz.) bar of cream cheese
    1/2 c. sugar
    1 tsp. vanilla
    1 pt. fresh strawberries
    First cream the softened cream cheese, gradually add in sugar. Add vanilla and whip until fluffy. Fold in Cool Whip. Pour into crust. Garnish with fresh strawberries, blueberries, cherries. Refrigerate for 1 hour, until firm.
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    1. Philidelphia Cream Cheese has ready to eat cheesecake Tubs:
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    2. Video - New York Style Cream Topped Cheesecake:
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    From:
    http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1937,150...
    FROZEN PEANUT BUTTER PIE-no bake
    8 oz. cream cheese
    1 c. crunchy peanut butter
    2 c. powdered sugar
    1 c. milk
    1 lg. carton Cool Whip
    Mix all ingredients. Add Cool Whip last. Pour into 2 baked pie shells and freeze. Serve frozen.

    11. Tossed Salad (video):
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    Caesar Salad - chef style (video):
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    Quick five minute Caesar Salad (video):
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    12. Guacamole Dip video (peppers can be left out if you wish):
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    14. Chef Wan's Recipes-Malaysia...in south east asia - pictures:
    (Categories on the left hand side of the screen)
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    15. Video On How To Cook A Rib Eye Steak (turn on your sound), click this link:
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