The Asian-Italian Family Dinner

Beef Shabu-Shabu

At the request of my kids, I made our family an Asian-Italian feast for our Christmas dinner. On the menu: Malfadine with Baseball Size Meatballs (my favorite), Sweet Peppers with Spicy Italian Sausage and Beef Shabu-Shabu (Japanese Hot Pot). It was the idyllic Christmas Day. No agenda. No parties to go to. Just the five of us around a table of
comfort food. It was perfect.

How was your Christmas meal?

Frying the giant meatballs

Malfadine with Meatballs

The full stove top

My daughter Francesca dipping her beef in the shabu-shabu

Shabu-Shabu traffic