Anipasti

Last weekend we had friends in for an Italian dinner in 4 courses. Larry put on the Italian opera music and gave it a bit of a go to thank God for the food in Italian. The rest of the meal was fine, but the best to me was the simple antipasti to start us off--bread sticks, olive bread, hard salami, honeyed goat cheese, pepperoncinis, good marinated olives and ground artichokes with parmesan. So easy to just arrange it all on a board and honestly, I'd be happy with just this for dinner with friends and a good class of wine...