Italian Night
December 6, 2014

The theme for our Homegroup Christmas social this year was Italian Night.

Everyone was asked to take something Italian...

We had:
Antipasto - bread with dipping oils and vinegar, yummy snacking sausage
Salad
Zuppa Toscana
Pasta:  Fettuccine, Italian Sausage Ravioli, Butternut Squash Ravioli, Italian tomato meat sauce and Alfredo sauce.
Gelato cake
Oh and Bellini's and Italian wine yet too!

It was a feast and oh so much fun!

I had made most of the pasta before hand.  Even made some gluten free pasta too.

Some of the girls wanted to learn how to make pasta so I saved making some so that I could demonstrate the process.

Yes that was done while having antipasto, Bellini's and wine!

Step 1:  Blend and kneed dough

Step 2:  Let it rest....while that rests go shop in Dave's shop for Christmas stuff to decorate your house!  This is a very important step!

Step 3:  Use my handy, dandy pasta roller!  I really, really LOVE my Christmas gift from last year!  So do the kids and Dave because they get super yummy pasta now!

Step 4:  Cut pasta to desired shape....linguine, spaghetti, fettuccine, whatever.

I chose Butternut Squash.  I had prepared the filling the day before so that it could be cold. 

MMMmmmm.....I can hardly wait to eat these little bits of yummM!

Step 5:  Because I made these a day earlier I put them into a Ziploc bag and froze them.  You can save them in your freezer for a few weeks too...if you can have them last that long without gobbling them all up!

Mr. Bellini maker!

Step 5:  Cook and eat some delicious pasta!

We are so blessed to have the Homegroup we do.  Over the years we have developed some great relationships and it was such a joy to share this sit down dinner with them!

We set up a large table in the dining area and spent hours chatting, laughing, eating and cherishing our time together!