Sunday Supper

This week the “our family food fight team” is taking Sunday off to enjoy “Sunday Supper” with chefs Jeremy Hanlon and Wayne Dever. These two chefs are preparing a one-night-only dining experience that combines each chef’s unique culinary perspective into a four-course tasting menu.

Therefore, instead of our traditional food fights, i offer you a little insight into our family and our Sunday dinners….

Our Family Foodfight’s Sunday Dinner

Growing up, Sundays were the day the whole family got together for dinner. Typically at my aunt & uncle’s house, my mom and I would join the family for the traditional spaghetti & meatballs with gravy. Yup, gravy! That’s what we and a generation of Italian-American New Yorkers called ‘spaghetti sauce’ that was slow-cooked all day with meatballs and sausage and sometimes with the addition pork and bracciole.

This past Sunday, we continued the tradition and invited my cousin and her family over for dinner – Sunday Dinner – complete with meatballs, sausage, ricotta and of course, my own slow-cooked gravy! Perhaps hard to tell, but that platter is HUGE. It is holding approximately 7 pounds of food! Two pounds of linguine, three pounds of sausage and at least 20 meatballs (which include a pound each of ground beef and ground pork as well as cheese and fresh bread crumbs).

As if that wasn’t enough food, for dessert I whipped up these tasty cannoli bites which were inspired by a recipe we found on Big Red Kitchen. We didn’t deviate much from their recipe, mainly slight adjustments for taste, and we used Siljans Crispy Cups we found at IKEA instead of the phyllo as suggested by Big Red Kitchen.