Why would you want to live like an Italian? Well, these ways can help you learn how to enjoy and make your food, you can learn how to appreciate and value your time with family members and learn the multiple ways to raise your children. Whether you may be Italian or not, these can act as inspiration in what you can do in your own life with an Italian touch.
1. Always and I mean ALWAYS have food with you at home. Italians never stop eating. They value food so much that whenever people come over, you have to offer it to them even if they stop by for 5 minutes. When you do give them food, give them a 5 course meal. Never think you made enough food.
2. Make sure your children have a wine tasting at age 10, which helps them fall asleep too ;)
3. Have a huge garden in your backyard for fresh tomatoes, eggplants, string beans, cucumbers, zucchini, etc. Maintain the garden by checking it everyday after work or before work.
4. Have Sunday dinner every Sunday at 1:00. Yes, dinner is at 1:00 pm on Sundays and make sure pasta is one of the entrees and wine as the only beverage option.
5. Give your children a full course meal to bring to school for lunch. Pack some pasta with a side of meatballs or some fresh homemade lasagna. Make your children’s friends jealous. Also include real silverware, no plastic forks.
6. Have a cornicello or corno that looks like red peppers hanging from your car, around your neck, in your house. A corno is an item that Italians always have with them that symbolizes to get off evil eyes way. It is a myth that Italians go by that if you have this with you, you have remove all of the bad luck from our surroundings.
7. Live with your family members. This means you have to live with you parents, in laws, grandparents etc. Or live next to or down the street from your uncle, aunt, cousins, 10th cousin, etc. This makes it much more special living with them and plus they make you food too ;)
8. Embarrass your children any chance you get. Look at my last blog post on how to embarrass your children.
9. Visit your family members in Italy
10. Talk with your hands overtime you speak. Yes, even when you are on the phone and can't see your hand gestures, do it anyway.
11. Make homemade tomato sauce. The steps include: 1) pick a case of perfectly fresh tomatoes; 2) Cut off the bad parts of the tomatoes after you wash them; 3) Buy a machine that juices that tomatoes; 4) Put cut tomatoes into hole in machine or have your children do it for you 5). Press down and watch the fresh tomato sauce pour into the bucket 5) Add salt for flavor 6) Add a basil leaf in specific jars (click here to buy these jars) and pour in tomatoes sauce 6) Shut jars 7) Last but not least, boil all of the jars in a huge pot to seal them shut 8) Use these tomato sauce jars whenever you need sauce. NEVER use store bought Ragu.
12. Know and meet every single Italian from your neighborhood.
13. Be extremely loud whenever you speak.
14. Love your family unconditionally and put them before yourself.
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