Jack by Giulia Lagomarsino

Author:Giulia Lagomarsino [Lagomarsino, Giulia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KDP
Published: 2017-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Jack

Harper and I agreed that since we spent so much on the addition, we would just exchange small presents Christmas morning. I had been trying to come up with a great idea for her, but I was really struggling. I wanted something to symbolize our time together, but Harper really wasn’t the type to wear jewelry. Then I remembered that Bronner’s customized their ornaments. I went online and found enough ornaments to memorialize our relationship.

Every year, about a week before Christmas, my mom and I got together and made ravioli for Christmas Eve dinner. We made them from scratch and then used the left over dough to make fatties. Fatties were dough rolled into a pencil shape that you fried in olive oil until golden brown, then heavily salted. Harper came with me and learned how to make the ravioli and sang Christmas songs.

“So, Jack, I thought your family was English and Scottish? Where does ravioli come from?” Harper asked as she sipped some wine.

“Dad’s side of the family is English and Scottish, but Ma’s side is Italian.”

“Really? That is so cool. No wonder you have some mad baking skills.”

Agnes rolled out some more dough and started to put the filling in evenly spaced balls. “My mother came over from Italy and married my father in an arranged marriage. I know they loved each other, but I don’t think it was that way at first. He was twenty-two years older than her. Anyway, she kept cooking a lot of Italian food growing up and I really wanted to learn. I have a bunch of old recipes that I wrote down. You know you can’t rely on my memory for too much longer and these have to be passed on to someone else who will use them to cook for their family.” She glanced at me, but spoke to Harper. “Maybe some day I’ll pass them onto you?”

I rolled my eyes. The Italian matchmaker in her was coming out. Ma wouldn’t be happy until she had a house full of kids running around. I hadn’t told her that I didn’t want kids. It would probably kill her.

“I would love to make some of these meals with you. We could have a big dinner once a week and make a new meal every time. It would be so much fun,” Harper said excitedly.

We finished making the ravioli and rolled out the dough for the fatties and fried them up.

“Jack, sweetie, why don’t you go put on the movie.” Mom was getting the plates out and pulling out another bottle of wine.

“What movie are we going to watch?”

Harper started filling her plate with fatties. She took a bite and moaned as the flavor hit her tongue. I loaded up a plate for myself. I usually ate about two plates of these because they were so good. Traditionally, we only ate them once a year, so you had to load up when they were made.

“We always watch It’s a Wonderful Life after we finish the ravioli.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.