{"id":2466,"date":"2010-12-25T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2010-12-25T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T20:38:42","slug":"traditional-italian-christmas-dinner-in-the-mountains-of-abruzzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2010\/12\/25\/traditional-italian-christmas-dinner-in-the-mountains-of-abruzzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Italian Christmas Dinner in the Mountains of Abruzzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas-in-abruzzo.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2468\" title=\"xmas in abruzzo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/xmas-in-abruzzo-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0copyright 2010 \u00a0art of living\/PrimaMedia,Inc\/ Maria Liberati<br \/>\nPosting on breaks between eating and cooking today&#8230;from the mountains of Abruzzo..from Vigilia( Christmas Eve) Feast of the Seven Fishes\u00a0 (and almost no sleep) into a tradtional Christmas Day Dinner or lunch to dinner..well who can tell what is lunch or dinner when one runs right into the other.<br \/>\nMy \u00a0Chrsitmas day meal began with -what we know here as a typical soup from Abruzzo- ( known as Italian wedding soup in the US ) to a meatless lasagne to &#8216;alla brace&#8217;\u00a0 (grilled meats over the fireplace)\u00a0 and oven roasted potatoes..to fresh fruits to a typical dessert from Pescara known as Parozzo and \u00a0torrone nougat from L&#8217;Aquila. And finally ending with a cup of espresso&#8230;but not officially ended because in another 2 hours another meal will begin&#8230;<br \/>\nBut we are passing the 2 hours of waiting with our official game of Christmas Tombola (Bingo) to burn off\u00a0 the calories.. Tombola is the official game for the\u00a0Christmas Holidays\u00a0and helps pass the time between meals. Grandmothers, Mothers and Aunts will only excuse you from the table for a game of Tombola or to go the bathroom..they are the only two allowable excuses! We are waiting for others to be invented.<br \/>\n\u00a0I am of the opinion that someone began this tradition to give those who wanted to have a break from eating for\u00a024 hours, a way to divert their \u00a0attention\u00a0to something else..not eating. And your host is not offended that you have taken a break from eating! In fact they will gladly join in. But be careful, Italians take a friendly game of\u00a0 Tombola\u00a0 just as serious as they do\u00a0 driving and eating.<br \/>\nThe next 10 day days or so will seem like one non-ending feast of food and walks in the piazza to encounter old friends that live here or have returned for the Holidays&#8230;tomorrow is the Feast of Santo Stefano (Saint Stephen) and another Holiday\u00a0meal \u00a0is the tradition&#8230;Stay tuned for menus and recipes<br \/>\nFor more stories and recipes to celebrate the Holidays get your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/bookstore\/the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-second-edition\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking : Holidays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0copyright 2010 \u00a0art of living\/PrimaMedia,Inc\/ Maria Liberati Posting on breaks between eating and cooking today&#8230;from the mountains of Abruzzo..from Vigilia( Christmas Eve) Feast of the Seven Fishes\u00a0 (and almost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,878,947,7,28,55,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abruzzo","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-christmas","category-country-house-living","category-cucina","category-holidays","category-special-occasions","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}