Happy Easter!! (2019)
No, you're not having a flashback to four months ago.
I just realized that I never posted the meal for this past Easter.
Which was a shame because I made a delicious Tuscan bread and vegetable soup called "ribollita" for starters ...
... baked lamb chops seasoned with rosemary and garlic, risotto and asparagus for the main and vanilla "cake for one" filled and frosted with a vanilla buttercream and decorated with Easter jimmies for dessert. A simple lemonade spiked with raspberries and blackberries to wash it down.
Easter cake
It's been so long since I made the soup that I can't remember which adaptation I used of the four recipes I have saved in my Italian folder. Based on the pictures of the ingredients in the photo folder for the soup, I'm guessing this one. Though I didn't use canned beans but cooked cannellini beans from dry.
Home made croutons were used both in the soup itself as a thickener and, seasoned, as a garnish that was stirred in just before serving. If you like your croutons crunchy, serve a bowl of the croutons on the table and let each diner add their own.
It was a great meal ... even in retrospect.
I just realized that I never posted the meal for this past Easter.
Which was a shame because I made a delicious Tuscan bread and vegetable soup called "ribollita" for starters ...
... baked lamb chops seasoned with rosemary and garlic, risotto and asparagus for the main and vanilla "cake for one" filled and frosted with a vanilla buttercream and decorated with Easter jimmies for dessert. A simple lemonade spiked with raspberries and blackberries to wash it down.
Easter cake
It's been so long since I made the soup that I can't remember which adaptation I used of the four recipes I have saved in my Italian folder. Based on the pictures of the ingredients in the photo folder for the soup, I'm guessing this one. Though I didn't use canned beans but cooked cannellini beans from dry.
Home made croutons were used both in the soup itself as a thickener and, seasoned, as a garnish that was stirred in just before serving. If you like your croutons crunchy, serve a bowl of the croutons on the table and let each diner add their own.
It was a great meal ... even in retrospect.