Antipasto Becomes a Meal

The word antipasto means before the meal, but in this case it is the meal. I am such a sucker for olive bars and all things cured and pickled, so a number of spontaneous pickled purchases (say that quickly three times!) left me with a refrigerator full of goodies. Most of them have long shelf lives and add spice to pastas, pizzas and such so not much goes to waste. One night last week I decided to assemble a plate of antipasto to proceed a meal of grilled steak. It became quite obvious that this plate of pleasures would be enough food to  feed us, so we held off on the steak and added bread and wine for a easy, fun dinner. The cast of food characters included Calabrese Salami, leftover grilled shrimp, kimchi, garlic stuffed green olives, kalamata olives, marinated mushrooms, artichoke hearts, fresh mozzarella and tomatoes with balsamic and olive oil. Buona mangia! Luciano: Sono così rubare la tua ricetta pizza fritta!
  Antipasto Meal