I'm in charge of the antipast this year. Going tomorrow with this list:
Prosciutto
Sopresetta
Hot capicola
Genoa salami
Mortadella
Fresh ball of mozz
Provolone
Fontina
Olives
Roasted tomato
Marinated mushrooms
Marinated artichokes
Fresh bread
Breadsticks
#### can't forget the roasted peppers
Marinated mushrooms and artichokes is nice. I would like to subscribe to your antipasto.
We have those in the fridge year round.
What's fontina anyway? My wife is Italian and lived in the same house as her aunt AND Grandparents until marriage. I'm German/Irish but from Cranston, I know things. My wife and I started dating at fifteen so I really grew up Italian in that house.Edited to add my wife's family HATED the Sopranos. They really thought it put the culture in a terrible light. They hated "Cavones" in general as they called them.
Fontina is mild and softer. The kids usually go for that over the provolone. Provo I get is aged almost 18 months, you can smell it 3 blocks away.
Off the subject of antipasto but fontina is a great melting cheese. A few months back, the wife and I had French onion soup and ribeye for dinner. She as usual ate like a bird and put about half a pound of ribeye and 3/4 of a crock of soup in the fridge. Next day, I pulled it out and was trying to determine the best way to reheat it for lunch when I had a stroke of inspiration. I poured the soup into a pot and put it on the stove, then sliced the steak thin and tossed it in. Got everything warmed up, then scooped out the sliced steak and the onions and dropped them on a hoagie roll, topped it with sliced fontina and popped it in the oven until the cheese melted.
It wasn't a wiz wit from (insert Pat's/Geno's/Jim's/Tony Luke's) but damn, that was a fine sandwich.