From Italy: Buon Natale !

[italian pat patriot]

To all Pats Fans my best wishes for a
Merry Christmas and, as always, Go Pats !!!

In Italy jow it is allready 5,30 pm and i have allready eaten a lot...

ok...: 11-4 !!! not bad...

Afc East Champions/New England Patriots !

 

[italian pat patriot]

ciao NEM

it was a nice day

sun here and not so low temperatures - not snow (in all Europe till now a good weather)

yesterday evening i saw, on SKy alive, the Pats and it was a nice evening

today we eat and drunk as usual on Christmas day - nothing to complain !

what about you ? you eat and drink 'particularly' on this day ?

 

[italian pat patriot]

starters: olive, salame, parma ham, insalata russa, coktail di gamberetti, gnocchi alla romana con piselli and ham, cappone, orata fish con patate, panettone artigianale, lambrusco red wine and a rose' wine, coffe plus bisquits.

sorry i can't translate everything

we started at h 12,20 and we finished at h 16,30

14 persons in total around the table

exchanging gifts too

my son was the most happy (as expected...)

 

[Mike the Brit]

starters: olive, salame, parma ham, insalata russa, [= russian salad, i.e. diced mixed vegetables] coktail di gamberetti [ = shrimp ****tail], gnocchi alla romana con piselli and ham [I don't know what the 'alla romana' means in the case of gnocchi, but gnocchi are gnocchi and piselli are peas], cappone [= capon, I think (a chicken that isn't a **** any more, if you get my meaning)], orata [ = sea bream] fish con patate [ = potatoes], panettone artigianale [rustic pannetone -- a sweet, yeast bread, if you don't know it], lambrusco red wine and a rose' wine, coffe plus bisquits.

sorry i can't translate everything

we started at h 12,20 and we finished at h 16,30

14 persons in total around the table

exchanging gifts too

my son was the most happy (as expected...)

Ah, Italian food! Wonderful -- and very traditional, I think. Were the gnocchi home made?

Buon Natale to you too, IPTP! Did you get to see the Jacksonville game?

Lots of good stuff (Tom missing receivers but still keeping the team moving forward with great poise and bravery, the return of LoMo and Rodney, Mike Wright holding up the middle in the absence of Vince, Ty Warren a beast again, good plays from almost everyone -- except for Tully Banta Cain's touchdown brain fart and Tedy's tackling being shown up by their shifty little running back.)

 

[Fanfrom1960]

starters: olive, salame, parma ham, insalata russa, coktail di gamberetti, gnocchi alla romana con piselli and ham, cappone, orata fish con patate, panettone artigianale, lambrusco red wine and a rose' wine, coffe plus bisquits.

sorry i can't translate everything

we started at h 12,20 and we finished at h 16,30

14 persons in total around the table

exchanging gifts too

my son was the most happy (as expected...)

Sounds like a great Italian feast. I'm Italian also, and on Christmas eve my mother always made seven kinds of seafood (The Feast of the Seven Fishes, an Italian Christmas Eve tradition built around fish of all kinds and prepared in as many different ways as possible). I copied that description from a website. Are you familiar with that tradition?

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!

 

[italian pat patriot]

Ah, Italian food! Wonderful -- and very traditional, I think. Were the gnocchi home made?

Buon Natale to you too, IPTP! Did you get to see the Jacksonville game?

Buon Natale to you too Mike The Brit - how is life now in US ?
i hope all is fine

ah: i registered too on UkPatriots.Com (are you posting there too ?)
i received a warm reception

yes : i saw 'alive' on SKY Pats @ Jax - nice ! and this evening also alive Iggles and Cowboys

the gnocchi were mad by my wife

it was the usual Christmas: eating and drinking...

 

[italian pat patriot]

Sounds like a great Italian feast. I'm Italian also.
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!

yes, my friend.
it was a nice day.
pity that no-one was interested to talk about the Patriots too.

when they see my t-shirts with Pat Patriot or Flying Elvis they ask me 'who is he ?'

someone told me that Pat Patriot looks like a Mexican...bah...

from wich area of Italy do you have origins ?

anyway: un Sereno Natale ed un Buon Anno anche a Te ed alla Tua Famiglia and...Go Pats !!! The Best Team in the world !!!

 

[italian pat patriot]

Wonderful, wonderful. I hope that, someday, you and I can meet. HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR.

This world will survive much longer if people from all across this planet can meet, understand one another, and work together for the survival of our world.

In the meantime, pass the salame. I will have some on rye bread. I love Genoa salami, my favorite.

grazie NEM - again: Buon Natale You too and Yr Family and a Positive and health 2007 !

i really hope we will have the opportunity to met each other and this could happens and i will listen with pleasure, having a drink together, your 'Patriots experience' and the usual nice and, for me, very interesting stories about the past

 

[Fanfrom1960]

yes, my friend.
it was a nice day.
pity that no-one was interested to talk about the Patriots too.

when they see my t-shirts with Pat Patriot or Flying Elvis they ask me 'who is he ?'

someone told me that Pat Patriot looks like a Mexican...bah...

from wich area of Italy do you have origins ?

anyway: un Sereno Natale ed un Buon Anno anche a Te ed alla Tua Famiglia and...Go Pats !!! The Best Team in the world !!!

From a small town near Cassino, so I guess I'm half Roman and half Napolitan! That's 100% Italian anyway. Having dinner at my son's and daughter in law's house later tonight, so time to kill here.

Ciao

 

[italian pat patriot]

From a small town near Cassino, so I guess I'm half Roman and half Napolitan! That's 100% Italian anyway. Having dinner at my son's and daughter in law's house later tonight, so time to kill here.

Ciao

yes: i know Cassino - so you have 'Central Italy' origins

ps: tomorrow is festa again as you know: Santo Stefano...

then is over and it will be time to eat only salads and mozzarella and pomodoro in order to 'loose' what you gained...

ciao !

 

[Mike the Brit]

Buon Natale to you too Mike The Brit - how is life now in US ?
i hope all is fine

ah: i registered too on UkPatriots.Com (are you posting there too ?)
i received a warm reception

yes : i saw 'alive' on SKY Pats @ Jax - nice ! and this evening also alive Iggles and Cowboys

the gnocchi were mad by my wife

it was the usual Christmas: eating and drinking...

Life is good -- I had all my snow boots and parkas ready, but it's warm here. I went to a bar with a couple of young friends to watch the game yesterday. We drank Tremont beer and ate buffalo wings (no, those aren't the wings from buffaloes (!!) but chicken wings cooked in a hot sauce that originated in Buffalo). Great! http://www.thirstyscholarpub.com/home.htm

I'm glad that your wife made the gnocchi -- good for her! It's a shame, but home cooking seems to be a dying tradition in the U.S. -- everyone seems either to go out or buy stuff ready made from the supermarket.

 

[RayClay]

starters: olive, salame, parma ham, insalata russa, coktail di gamberetti, gnocchi alla romana con piselli and ham, cappone, orata fish con patate, panettone artigianale, lambrusco red wine and a rose' wine, coffe plus bisquits.

sorry i can't translate everything

we started at h 12,20 and we finished at h 16,30

14 persons in total around the table

exchanging gifts too

my son was the most happy (as expected...)

Buon Natale, ItalianPat.

I can't pronounce most of that, but I bet I could eat it all.

Keep rooting for this Patriots team. We have many good players, but the personality of this offense is just growing now, I feel it.

 

[italian pat patriot]

Buon Natale, ItalianPat.

I can't pronounce most of that, but I bet I could eat it all.

Keep rooting for this Patriots team. We have many good players, but the personality of this offense is just growing now, I feel it.

Buona Natale a Te e Famiglia RayClay
i always enjoy and like yr posts - i hope you had a nice Christmas too

yes...believe me...you could eat it all...

and as usual i will keep rooting , since more then 20 years now, our New England Patriots

i am very optimistic about this season and it is a pleasure, an honour to be a fan of the Patriots, as we are !

Ciao !

 

[Murphys95]

starters: olive, salame, parma ham, insalata russa, coktail di gamberetti, gnocchi alla romana con piselli and ham, cappone, orata fish con patate, panettone artigianale, lambrusco red wine and a rose' wine, coffe plus bisquits.

Che abbuffata!

A tad belated, but Buon Natale Italianpatthepatriot!

 

[italian pat patriot]

Che abbuffata!

A tad belated, but Buon Natale Italianpatthepatriot!

si : una discreta abbuffata !

with delay too, Murphys95: Buon Natale and, in advance..., Buon Anno Nuovo - Felice 2007