If you eat pasta, then antipasto, are you still hungry?

[monkeyboy]

What to do with entree

 

[mytripsandraces]

The antipasti are traditionally eaten before the pasta, but I believe each plate is meant to be small, to make sure there is room for all courses. I look at it as splitting the entree course into two courses - the starch, then the protein and vegetables.

 

[lizabu]

I agree that antipasto goes first too and I get full if I eat both. I get why you might think the opposite though. Eat pasta and then antipasto to erase the pasta you just ate If only if were true. We could eat all the pasta we want and never gain a pound

 

[JessicaR]

If I have antipasto I dont eat pasta unless its my main course. The antipasto is the first course - of course if its a holiday we do have all 3 just pick and choose what your gonna eat! Mangia.

 

[Pikester]

Attended my cousin's wedding on Long Island and he is marrying into an Italian family. The reception was WOW! Tea and coffee to start in one room of the recepton hall, then to another room for a spread that was out of this world! Fruit, veggies, meat stations, two bars, a martini bar, pizza station, deli meats, cheese and crackers, and much more. From there we were led to another room for the actual dinner. Antipasto, salad, pasta, entree, dessert, coffee. The dessert was wedding cake, canolie shells with ice cream, a chocolate fountain and chocolate liquor cups table. I've never eaten so much in my life!