Our third week: Good Friday and Easter holiday

Sharon

o    On Easter Sunday I was with my family. We had lunch at a restaurant near Sezze. We were served: an appetizer, two main courses (pasta)  and fish and meat. For dessert we ate "pastiera napoletana" that is a typical cake made in Naples. After lunch, we all went to my house. My  grandparents and some of my uncles played cards. The others were in the room and  talked to each other. I played with my cousin and with my dog. In the evening, I went with my dad to buy some pizza that  we ate all together. Family reunions are always the best moments. It was really a wonderful Easter.

   Pastiera napoletana:

"The Pastiera" is a tart always eaten at Easter-time in Naples. It is made from a very special and old recipe which has two particular ingredients which make it unique: moisture taken from the orange tree blossom and cooked wheat. Also used in the recipe are "ricotta" cheese, candid fruit and classic short pastry. Making the tart does non require any great ability, but does require just a little time and patience, but it is well worth it.

PASTIERA'S RECIPE:

Ingredients for the Pastiera for 12 people:

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1 kg pre packed frozen short pastry (if you want to make it at home for the recipe follow the recipe below) 700 gr ricotta cheese 600 gr sugar 400 gr of boiled wheat (you can easily find cans in any supermarket) 80 gr crystallized citron

80 gr crystallized orange a dash cinnamon 100 gr milk 30 gr butter or lard 5 eggs and 2 egg yolks a spoon full of vanilla a spoon of orange flavoured water 1 lemon

    

Ingredients for home made short pastry for 12 people: 3 eggs 200 gr flour 200 gr sugar 200 gr butter or lard

Preparation: - Put the flour and the sugar in a circle and the soften butter, egg yolks, and the grated lemon peel in the center.                                                                    <><><>- Beat the eggs in the center of the circle with a fork, slowly mixing in the flour and the sugar.<><>  - Once the ingredients are mixed together, rapidly knead the short pastry without mixing it, but only pressing it until the color is uniform. - Let the short pastry rest for at least half an hour, covered in a wet napkin.- The short pastry must not be kneaded too much or it will loose its shortness

Preparation: - Let the short pastry defrost in room temperature. - pour the wheat, the milk, the butter and 1 lemon grated peel in a casserole pan; let it cook for 10 minutes and often stir the ingredients til they become cream. - In another pan whip the ricotta cheese, the sugar, 5 eggs, 2 egg yolks, a spoon of vanilla, a spoon of orange flavoured water, and a dash of cinnamon. - Mix everything until the dough is very thin.Then add some grated lemon peel and diced crystallized orange and citron. - Mix everything to the wheat. Spread either the homemade or frozen short pastry with a pin until it’s ½ cm thick. - Put the short pastry in a 30 cm wide pan, but make sure you spread some butter on it before. - Cut the exceeding edges off, spread them with a pin and cut the short pastry in strips. - Pour the mixture of the ricotta cheese and the other ingredients in the pan, and fold the borders of the short pastry inwards. -Then put the short pastry strips on the ingredients. Dust the Pastiera with icing sugar before serving. 2 4

Enjoy your pastiera  J

Here you can see how to prepare this cake. The recipe can be a little different but don't mind it's always excellent

·         Silvia Cavalieri

At  Easter I was with my family and my cousins at my grandmother’s house.
It was very funny becouse we were all together.
After the lunch, my little cousins and I opened our presents and some chocolate eggs.
My aunt gave me a good book, it was the best present because I love to read!
I came back home at 10.00 p.m.. It was a very nice and tiring day!

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During our Easter holiday most of us went to visit relatives in different towns. Our teacher went to her birth place, a little town close to Naples, in the south of Italy, to visit her parents. There, like in many other places, on Good Friday takes place a holy procession to the Calvary, that shows the most important moments in the last period of Jesus' life.

She took some photo for us and we have collected them in this album and we hope you can enjoy it! :))))))


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Today is  April 5th and  Easter holiday began.

We are Enrico and Mauro and both play football.

Today we woke up at 8:00 because our football teams were invited to play the Sermoneta tournament. I play in the Santa Rita team as a right back, and Enrico plays in the Sermoneta team as a goalkeeper. We belong to two differents groups: I’m with the Us Latina, Anziolavinio and San Donato, Enrico's with Samagor, Cisterna and Pro Latina. We played at 9:30 in the football  field near Sermoneta with the Us Latina, and Enrico played at 11:30 near Cisterna. Luckily we both teams won: my team won 3-2 while they won 2-1. In the afternoon we had a rest because on the next day we had other two soccer matches: one in the morning, and the other one in the afternoon...

Mauro wearing his uniform




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Today 4th April is the last day before Easter holiday :) :) :) I'm very happy because I can wake up late and meet my relatives and have fun with them.
Our holiday is from tomorrow to 10th. Sharon

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Francesca Bizzi

In a few days, we’ll be on Easter holiday,  from April 5 to April 10. For this at school our teachers have planned their class tests. On Monday we have a Spanish and a PE tests. The latter consists in doing some specific exercises like high and long jumps (you can see some photos on the other page). On  Tuesday we have  a math test and on Wednesday the English test.

Then during our holiday we have to study a lot because we have a lot of  homework of English, History, Science for April 11th. We’ll have a very hard period but then we’ll have a week and we can relax J J J

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