EASTER SUNDAY FEAST

What a feast we all enjoyed with Linda, Gino and Chiara yesterday.  I have to admit that I was too contendedly full to write last night!

Before the antipasti, there were slices of these - not big lemons, but cedri, which you eat with the skin on and they are not in the least bitter:

Then there were dressed peppers, caponata and sun-dried tomatoes and all the produce was home-grown:

Of course, there was pasta

then a spezzatino of pork with carrots and just a hint of marjoram:

Then there was a splendid dish of lamb stuffed with a mixture whose main ingredient was aita [chard]. Yes, there was chicken, too,  for those who had room!

Afterwards there was fruit, including the last of the season's vanilla-flavoured oranges,

then this mouthwatering crostata:

I made my "chocolate thingies" again, since they are a breeze to prepare, pretty and portable:

And Chiara, who always thinks of a wonderful new way to decorate a celebration cake and who should write a book on how to make deliciously light sponge cakes, served this fabulous lemon curd one:

Finally, just look at the Easter present that Chiara got from an aunt [the lady who made the spezzatino]:

Don't you all want one, ladies?  Don't worry, we didn't eat it!