Day Four Family Dinner

For our last night in Castelraimondo and our fourth night we had a lovely Italian dinner. We each prepared our own respective dishes ranging from antipastos to desserts. I planned to prepare stuffed peppers with my partner, upon reaching the grocery store there was not the proper ingredients for the peppers so we though to switch to another antipasto. After looking for the proper ingredients for caprese salad with no luck we finally decided that we could make a bruschetta and purchased the required items. With about 2 hours of cook time we did our prep first cutting the bread and chopping the tomatoes and rosemary. After the prep work was done we had some down time before we wanted to put everything together. My partner and I played cards with another group while we waited and finally went back to our room to finish our dish. After sizzling the bread and the tomatoes we plated the bruschetta and went to the main room for our group dinner.

Once we arrived with our dishes at eight o’clock not everyone was ready with their dishes. To make sure everyone had ample time for cooking we set the tables and set up our food. Once everyone arrived the food was delicious. We had an array of pizza, lasagna, pasta rolls, meatballs, soup and our bruschetta. I personally thought everything was delicious and was full after sampling all of the dishes available. We ate together and talked and had a great time not only cooking our dishes but eating them together. After dinner we cleaned our plates and sat together for a dessert of panna cotta and tirasmisu. Both were delicious and gave me a perfect ending to a great day. I feel like the dinner was a great way to talk to a lot of my classmates and share some time with them in a more intimate setting.