intro- I've posted pictures to correspond to what I'm talking about. it makes it no easier to understand but whatever get over it.
So, my family is Italian, i have a lot of relatives who have now passed that were right off the boat from Italy. Now, my grandmother is the oldest (not even old) living member of the original group that was here from Italy. She has the passion to pass down our family traditions to all the women in the family to all the generations including my 9 month old baby girl.
This is Torrie not participating, and eating a plastic cup. mmgood.
Every year for Christmas and Easter we hand make macaronis for a soup we eat on the holiday called couplets (coop-plets). All the women gather together on a Saturday or Sunday morning and make them. Everyone has a job and its very loud and chaotic but we always get it done. It takes several hours just to make them so now the process starts the night before.
The night before my grandmother has the filling all put together and the dough is made and put aside.
this is the filling that is made the night before, and those are my grandmothers hand's folding the tiny roni's!
On the day of, there is rolling cranking filling folding and counting going on. Its an entire process that goes on for hours until we have over 1000 little "couplets".
this is some of the couplets we made, laying out to dry.
We have breakfast first. Always bagels and rolls and usually some other extra things that make their way to the table. Its fun and exciting and always great to catch up with everyone even tho we are already so close to each other.
this is breakfast!! my favorite part!!!
Today we made the couplets, I was late because Torrie decided to nap 10 mins before it was time to leave our house, needless to say, Torrie came and was a huge distraction this time so i didn't get to participate that much this time around so i decided i rather blog about this tradition that is very near to my heart anyway.
me being distracted by the bathroom (cough i mean torrie cough)
At the end of the process, the couplets are left out to dry over a couple days and then they are frozen until the holiday, they are taken out, thawed and made into soup with chicken and carrots. Its delicious but it is difficult to have more then one bowl of couplets because they are so filling and heavy on your stomach but they are sooo yum yum good!!!
This is the finished product of the day, i will take a picture of the soup on easter in a couple weeks so you can see the completely finished product. the picture makes these look large but they are actually only slightly larger then your finger nail.
So i dont want to give all the details of our tradition away because they are ours but sometimes its refreshing to know that in this big world of technology there are still some "old school" traditions happening.
In other news, G and I took torrie to the park today, because it was actually nice out, and what do you know i have pics of that too!! (it was a picture taking kind of day!)
getting ready to go down the slide
Wheeeeeee!!
this is slightly out of order, oh well, this is pre-sitting on the slide.
watching the loser kid on the regular swing cry about letting someone else use it.
whoo hooo!!
So, my family is Italian, i have a lot of relatives who have now passed that were right off the boat from Italy. Now, my grandmother is the oldest (not even old) living member of the original group that was here from Italy. She has the passion to pass down our family traditions to all the women in the family to all the generations including my 9 month old baby girl.
This is Torrie not participating, and eating a plastic cup. mmgood.Every year for Christmas and Easter we hand make macaronis for a soup we eat on the holiday called couplets (coop-plets). All the women gather together on a Saturday or Sunday morning and make them. Everyone has a job and its very loud and chaotic but we always get it done. It takes several hours just to make them so now the process starts the night before.
The night before my grandmother has the filling all put together and the dough is made and put aside.
On the day of, there is rolling cranking filling folding and counting going on. Its an entire process that goes on for hours until we have over 1000 little "couplets".
We have breakfast first. Always bagels and rolls and usually some other extra things that make their way to the table. Its fun and exciting and always great to catch up with everyone even tho we are already so close to each other.
Today we made the couplets, I was late because Torrie decided to nap 10 mins before it was time to leave our house, needless to say, Torrie came and was a huge distraction this time so i didn't get to participate that much this time around so i decided i rather blog about this tradition that is very near to my heart anyway.
At the end of the process, the couplets are left out to dry over a couple days and then they are frozen until the holiday, they are taken out, thawed and made into soup with chicken and carrots. Its delicious but it is difficult to have more then one bowl of couplets because they are so filling and heavy on your stomach but they are sooo yum yum good!!!
So i dont want to give all the details of our tradition away because they are ours but sometimes its refreshing to know that in this big world of technology there are still some "old school" traditions happening.
In other news, G and I took torrie to the park today, because it was actually nice out, and what do you know i have pics of that too!! (it was a picture taking kind of day!)
we also played in the sandbox, that's why she has no socks on if you didn't notice but! it was way to sandy to whip out my camera there.
And last but not least i forgot to post this yesterday! Happy ST. Patty's day from my little pot of gold!
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