I Love Antipasti! by Don Sefton, Event Manager/Catering
We had some good friends over last night and started out with a wonderful antipasti selection. I think that it is one of the best ways to start out a dinner party, as it is casual and can be prepared ahead of time. The key is to find things that are of the best quality, easy to eat, and a variety of tastes and textures. My selection had the incredibly meaty castelvetrano olives, balsamic marinated cipollini onions, gigantas bean salad, and a really amazing giardiniera from my favorite Italian deli in Milwaukee called Glorioso’s. ( I had a jar of it mailed to me after a recent visit as I could not take it on the plane.) Anyone who goes to Milwaukee has to go to this wonderful, family owned institution that has been around for over 60 years! Their hot and juicy sliced Italian roast beef sandwiches on hard roll with peppers is to die for!!! Really!
We also had the euphoric Salumi rosemarino salami which is made just for De Laurenti here in Seattle. We had a variety of different cheeses: the very red and aged Leicester (UK), the creamy and decadent Pierre Robert (France), and the Ten Willow Tomme, raw sheep’s milk cheese from Adna, WA. It is a small creamery right up by Carnation. They lost 60% of their flock of sheep from the floods of last year because they were in a valley. (A very sad amount of livestock across Washington was lost due to the flooding.) This is one of the cheeses of their comeback, and we should support them. Of course, we had sliced baguette.
We washed all of this down with a delightful rosé brut from France by Louis Bouillot. Delicious!
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