for lunch some times my kids don't want to eat much specially if they are home from kindergarden, so they ask for cold cuts and they want them pretty, so i try to decorat a little and they like the flower, so we make flowers with salami, carrots, cheese and fruits and this is the resolts, do you like it? have a beautiful day my friends, Dolly

Gnocchi

Today we had Gnocchi di patate, the kids like them , they are made with potato's and we made meat sauce and that was lunch, for lunch we normally don't have much , a plate of pasta and that is it, but we eat lots of it...hehehehe!!!!enjoy my friend, ciao......Dolly

Natale, the day after....

Hi every one , I hope you all had a beautiful Xmas and New Year, we had lots of parties and i have to say that i had to much to drink on New years eve....... :-) but a lot of fun.

This is the day after Christmas and i had my friend Veronica over , her hubby is in Iraq so i try to have her over often, we had a good dinner , ,well my mom was here so she cooked...:-) we had saltinbocca alla Romana, Ham with pine apple, zucchini bell peppers and and German garlic bread, for dessert i made Mascarpone cream with amaretti, every thing was good and what is better then eating with friends.... i hope i will be able to put more stuff in, i have pictures but not that much time since we are moving...., but i will try, maybe i will put in pictures of all the fast food restaurant i go to when i am in the states... :-)I hope you all have a wonderful 2008, ciao from your Italian friend Dolly.

Christmas Dinner

Hi every one it has been so long since I've posted something, and it is not because i am not cooking, but i am always running doing things or getting the kids ready for bed an now that we are PCSing so soon it will be even worse. So many things to do and so little time to do them. So here I am posting our Christmas Eve's dinner that we had with my parents and a friend, Rachel. It turned out to be a nice dinner and a good time while we waited to exchange gifts. Good food and good company is always the best combination. Well, Merry Christmas to all the good friends, to the whole world and to our soldiers away from their families!!

With love your Italian friend Dolly...

Birth Day

Hi everybody, well, well, today was my Birthday and i tryed to keep it low , but didn't make .. The kids with Daddy got me a cake , and it was very good i have to say... I think it was the best Birthday that i had in the last 10 years, because the real happiness that my kids expressed for the little party was the best gift that I could every receive.ciao every one, and Happy Birthday to ME.....:-)

Few nights ago i had some Beef and Pork meat so i decide to make some Spezzatino with Potato's, and it came out very good i had some rice and a mixed salad with it , and dinner was served. love you all , ciao Dolly.

Chick Peas Spaghetti

A friend of mine told me that she had pasta with chick peas and it made my wanting some , so i decided to have some, Lucky we had some chick peas in the house , so i put them in water for 12 hrs and then i cooked them in water with onions , celery tomatoes and broth, after i cooked them for 4 -5 hrs i drained them , in a pan i cut slices of Zucchini and peppers with olive oil and garlic fryed them for 5 -6 min. and then added 3-4 scoops of chick peas in it , fried them for few , and when the spaghetti where cooked Kurt drained them and then i salted them with the veggies and there they where , believe me they where very good, so i hope you guys like the recipe, like always Buon appetito, from your friend Dolly.

Egg Plants ,yammy....

Today i was so happy to go over Leila's house for dinner, she cooks so good,and she even did filled Egg Plants for me, they where so yammy...then she had strogonoff and a super salad... for Dessert she mad a Cream Caramel with Pine Apple, it was very good , and i made Banana pudding for the kids, they seamed to like it.. We all had a great time, i love to go to her house she is so nice and we always have fun, we are even going to plan a vacation to Holland , well Amsterdam.. that should be fun.....but that will be another story.. so i hope you will enjoy all of this and i will post some other pictures later on this day... ciao from your friend Dolly, Buon Appetito

Buon Appetito