Vacation Eats: Lunches at home in Lamezia

This is a post in my "Vacation Eats" series. I'm posting about various eating and drinking experiences I had on our 2011 Vacation Extravaganza -- Pittsburgh, Boston, Italy, Paris, Pittsburgh. A link to all posts so far is available here. The idea is to lose all the pounds I gained by the time I'm finished with this posting series!

While we were in Lamezia, we ate lunch at hubby's family's home (where we stayed) most days.

I was tempted to make this several separate posts so you'll get a complete picture of how much each meal was and not think the pictures include many meals, but that would take too long.  Just realize that each meal was TONS of food.  I failed to take pictures of at least one lunch at home, but these are good representative samples of what it's like to eat there.  Lunch is definitely the big meal of the day.  The kids come home from school and the guys come home from work, and everyone eats together.  Dinner is small, unorganized, and not usually anything special.  I'll add a typical dinner at home to this post too, just for reference. 

So this is what we ate for lunch on Good Friday:

Pasta with greens, made especially for me, the vegetarian!

Homemade sundried tomatoes, home-grown olives (with pits) and wine (homemade by someone they buy from).

Sundried tomatoes and bread for my secondo. 

And oh yeah, don't forget the cheese...  Lots of delicious cheese. 

Fruit for dessert.  And they're big on peeling all fruit with a knife before you eat it. 

A few homemade biscotti with espresso after lunch. 

And this is what we ate for lunch on Saturday:

First, a plate of penne with red sauce.  Sooooo good. 

Then greens mixed with beans for me, fresh tomatoes (which hubby loved) and a plate of various meats.

Hubby's plate.  Not sure what the meat was.  He loved the tomatoes and olives.

And then the bowl of fruit for dessert. 

Sorry not to know how to rotate the pic.  More cheese, and a sweet dessert in the background.

Of course coffee after lunch.

Zia getting ready to cut the torte.

Mmm, the torte was delicious, made with fresh ricotta.

All that for a single lunch!
And this is what we ate for dinner on Good Friday, after we got back from the procession through town and stations of the cross service. 

Yep, potatoes, bread and cheese.  And a clock to show how late at night it was when we ate!  Not typical, but what happens when you get home from the Good Friday church procession at about 10:15 at night...

Other dinners are posted separately (the pizza restaurant, and dinner at friends' house), but those are definitely atypical and just b/c we're visiting.  Above is a much better example of daily eats at least for the lunches. 

Easter lunch gets its own post!