{"id":5003,"date":"2013-01-05T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2013-01-05T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:45:05","slug":"a-menu-for-la-befana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2013\/01\/05\/a-menu-for-la-befana\/","title":{"rendered":"A  Menu Celebrating La Befana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>text copyright 2012 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matinella.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/befana_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n(Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattinella,it\">http:\/\/www.mattinella,it<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe last Holiday for the Christmas season is almost here..tomorrow..La Befana visits every good boy and girl and fills their stockings\u2026the spirit of the Holiday is a fun and uplifting one..so whether or not you believe in La Befana..keep the spirit of what she is all about in your heart..Buona la Befana!<br \/>\nTomorrow\u2019s La Befana menu from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd edition<br \/>\n<strong>Antipasto plate<\/strong> \u2013cheeses, olives from Sicily, anchovies in olive oil and parsley,smoked salmon, rucola and tomatoes with shaved parmigiana<br \/>\n<strong>First Course<\/strong>-Lasagna filled with scamorza, hard noiled egg slices and tomato sugo<br \/>\n<strong>Second course<\/strong>&#8211; Fried scamorza cheese, local bread from the town of Venafro,<br \/>\n<strong>Side\u00a0 dish<\/strong>-spinach and chickory sauteed in garlic, extra virgin olive oil from Loreto Aprutino and hot pepper.<br \/>\n<strong>Desser<\/strong>t-Fresh fruit plate with fresh apples, clementines, oranges from Sicily, dried figs and dates, hazelnuts and walnuts from Sorrento<br \/>\nFor recipes and more get your copy of the Gourmand World Award Winning book <strong><em>The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cover-book-2nd-edition-0011.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"cover- book 2nd edition-001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cover-book-2nd-edition-001_thumb1.jpg?resize=187%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover- book 2nd edition-001\" width=\"187\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>text copyright 2012 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati (Photo credit: http:\/\/www.mattinella,it) The last Holiday for the Christmas season is almost here..tomorrow..La Befana visits every good boy and girl and fills&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":[28,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-italian-culture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003","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=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}