Time is ticking and before you know it, it will be New Year’s eve. Everyone is busy thinking about Christmas, but have you given any thought to creating your New Year’s eve menu? If you are celebrating at home, this is the year to cook an Italian feast. Italian Spoon have the best Italian new year’s eve menu to end the year with a bang. Choose from our Menu Mare (seafood based) or Menu Terra (meat based) to make this New Year’s eve menu extra special.

Cenone di Capodanno (New Year’s Eve dinner)

Menu Mare

Host the ultimate New Year’s Eve party with this amazing seafood-based menu.

Antipasti

Baccalà mantecato alla veneziana (creamed salted cod)

Cozze gratinate (mussel gratin)

Primi piatti (First courses)

Spaghetti pasta ‘alle vongole’ (with clams)

Farfalle pasta with zucchini and gamberetti (shrimp)

Secondi piatti (Second courses)

Garlic and chilli Morton Bay bugs (Bay lobster)

Nonna’s Sicilian-style calamari ripieni (stuffed)

Contorni sfiziosi (Delicious side dishes)

Insalata caprese

Oven baked capsicum with aromatic minty breadcrumbs

Dolci (Italian desserts)

Best ever Tiramisù
Vanilla panna cotta and mixed berry compote

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Menu Terra

Host the ultimate New Year’s Eve party with this amazing meat-based menu.

Antipasti

Olive all’ ascolana (meat stuffed olives)

Ultimate antipasto platter

Primi piatti (First Courses)

Traditional meat lasagne

Broccoli cream pasta with pork sausage

Secondi piatti (Second courses)

Veal Saltimbocca alla Romana (Roman style veal)

Slow roasted crispy pork belly

Contorni sfiziosi (Delicious side dishes)

Asparagus, egg, prosciutto and parmigiano salad

Caponata

Dolci (Italian Desserts)

Best ever Tiramisù

Coffee-flavoured panna cotta and walnut crumb

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New Year’s Eve theme

An amazing party not only has a great menu, but festive dinner table setting. You are going to need a theme – my favourite for New Year’s eve would have to be Glitz and glam with lots of sparkles. What colour palette are you going with? Great examples for New Year’s Eve include themes of:

• Timeless elegance with gold, silver and white, or
• Bold and Beautiful with black, white and gold.

It is time to take out your special dinner sets, silverware and ironed tablecloth! Don’t just stop at decorating. Think about what music you would like to play on New Year’s eve as the dining ambiance is just as important as the meal. Music is a great way to add warmth and a celebration vibe to any party.

The spirit of New Year

The new year is an opportunity to reflect over the past year and set new goals for 2022. It is also a great time to give back. Christmas and new year are a beautiful time of the year for many and terribly hard for others battling tough times. Consider donating money or food to a local charity or food bank if you are in a position to do so. If you find yourself with excess food or choose to purchase items to help people in need, they can also be donated while fresh.

Italian Spoon wishes you and your families a very special Christmas and safe New Year!

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Vanessa Bottaro

Author, Founder and Creative Director at Italian Spoon

In my eyes, Italian cuisine is love on a plate.

Vanessa is Creative Director of the Italian Spoon website and Author of The Italian entertaining cookbook, a collection of home-style Italian recipes and tips for entertaining in true Italian-style. In addition to cooking and taking photographs, Vanessa writes the recipes and blogs to bring the love of Italian cooking to life! The collection of recipes and blogs on the website have been inspired by travels to Italy and desire to share what she has learnt from the great ‘Mamma’s and ‘Nonna’s in her life!

Vanessa is an entrepreneur and wife to husband Simone and the mother of two beautiful kids Dante and Mia. Even so she was born and lives in Melbourne Australia, Vanessa has a deep connection to Italy. Perhaps it is the food, or maybe it is because it is the place where Vanessa met the love of her life, Simone to whom she has been happily married for so many years.

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