Can an Italian member please give us a Modern Day account and hopefully a Childhood Memory of this occassion please.Excellent description on the magazine front page. :)
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/30/2005 - 08:51
well, all we do in Piemonte is to go to the cemetery a couple of days before and arrange beautiful flowers on the tumbs of our relatives. Crisantemi, usually white or yellow..
Then on the day (2nd of november) we go back o the cemetery , there is a mass usually, and we meet the relatives that go to visit the same tumbs... it all ends up in a sorto of social occasion, really. It is also the first day in which you start wearing a coat, that meaning that the winter has started.
Traditionally we eat a chick beans (gorbanzo beans not sure about the spelling) soup.
In the south of Italy celebrations are garnder, I Think they put food on the table during the night so that the spirits can come and have a meal...
soak the chickpeas over night. Boil them with some sage and a bay leaf until cooked.
In another pan stir fry the onions with some olive oil. Add the rice, stir and then add some of the chickpeas broth. Add the stock cube. Add chickpeas and more of their water until the rice is cooked. You want a soup and not a risotto, so quite a lot of broth is needed. Add some black pepper to taste.
well, all we do in Piemonte is to go to the cemetery a couple of days before and arrange beautiful flowers on the tumbs of our relatives. Crisantemi, usually white or yellow..
Then on the day (2nd of november) we go back o the cemetery , there is a mass usually, and we meet the relatives that go to visit the same tumbs... it all ends up in a sorto of social occasion, really. It is also the first day in which you start wearing a coat, that meaning that the winter has started.
Traditionally we eat a chick beans (gorbanzo beans not sure about the spelling) soup.
In the south of Italy celebrations are garnder, I Think they put food on the table during the night so that the spirits can come and have a meal...
but here is a recipe:
Riso e Ceci
100gr dried chickpeas
rice
1 knoor dado classico
sage
bay leaf
1 onion
olive oil
pepper
soak the chickpeas over night. Boil them with some sage and a bay leaf until cooked.
In another pan stir fry the onions with some olive oil. Add the rice, stir and then add some of the chickpeas broth. Add the stock cube. Add chickpeas and more of their water until the rice is cooked. You want a soup and not a risotto, so quite a lot of broth is needed. Add some black pepper to taste.