Skip to main content
Home
The Foodie Pilgrim

Main navigation

  • Home
  • What's on My Plate?
  • What's in My Glass?
  • What's on My Mind?
User account menu
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. What's on My Plate?
  3. Feasts & Menus
  4. Celebratory Feasts
  5. Exploring Italy Birthday Feasts

John's Neapolitan Birthday Feast

By John, 9 January, 2012

Neapolitan FeastFor the last of our four Exploring Italy feasts, we discovered Naples and Campania. All three wines were traditional to Campania, based on the ancient and under-appreciated Aglianico grape.

Antipasti, with a Mastroberardino Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio:

  • Polpo alla Luciana (marinated octopus)
  • Marinated Olives
  • Fritto di Mozzarella
  • Wine Biscuits and Fennel Taralli
  • Two pizzas: a Pizza alla Napolitana (tomatoes, mozzarella, anchovies) and a Pizza alla Gamberi (garlic,  shrimp, and bay scallops)

The Pasta, with a spicy, delicious Aglianico di Taburna 2008:

  • Fusilli Aglio e Olio - a simple olive oil and garlic sauce for the pasta, with no tomatoes

The Main Course, with a fabulous Feudi di San Gregorio Taurasi 2004.

  • Peperoni Ripieni (bell peppers stuffed with rice, mozzarella, and hard-cooked egg)
  • The Porchetta! My all-time favorite dinner... courtesy of my brother Bill. Follow the link to see his excellent little treatise on Porchetta.

Dessert was not Italian - this being my birthday, Annette made her special mincemeat pie with her homemade green tomato mincemeat - my favorite!

WINE NOTES: It was something of an adventure getting the wines for this feast. The Taurasi came from Cirace's in the North End. I got the Taburna at Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge, but they had no Lacryma Christi. I used to be able to count on East Side Liquors in Worcester for Italian wines, but they no longer have the selection they once had. I ended up getting the LC at the new Wegmans Supermarket in Northboro, aided and frustrated by two well-intentioned clerks who thought I was looking for La Crema...

 

Book traversal links for John's Neapolitan Birthday Feast

  • Annette's Venetian Birthday Feast
  • Up
  • Richmond's 65th Birthday Dinner

Explore our content

  • Recipes
  • Artisanal & Seasonal Foods and Mundane Ingredients
  • Feasts & Menus
    • Actifio Pot-lucks
    • Celebratory Feasts
      • Exploring Italy Birthday Feasts
        • Richmond's Piedmont Birthday Feast
        • Lorna's Tuscan Birthday Feast
        • Annette's Venetian Birthday Feast
        • John's Neapolitan Birthday Feast
      • Richmond's 65th Birthday Dinner
      • Richmond's 70th Birthday Dinner
      • Thanksgiving Dinner Checklist
      • Valerie's Home From Paris Dinner
      • A Christmas Party at Work
      • A Romantic Valentine Dinner
      • Annette's Fancy French Birthday
      • Annette's Ritzy Birthday Dinner
      • Annette's Savoyard Birthday
      • Best of New England Dinner '12
      • Christmas Eve Feast of Seven Fishes
      • International Birthday Dinners
      • Lorna's Birthday Dinner 2012
      • Lorna's Birthday Dinner 2014
      • Old Colony Club Twelfthnight 2017
      • St Patrick's Day Feast
      • Valentine's Day 2021
      • Welcome Fall Feast 2012
    • Discovery Feasts
    • Casual Dinners
    • A Superlative Birthday Dinner

Newest Recipes

  • Neapolitan Beef Braciole
  • Pasta alla Gricia
  • Pasta all'Amatriciana
  • Pasta alla Napoletana
  • Penne with Pink Vodka Sauce
The Foodie Pilgrim
Powered by Drupal