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FOOD - FUN - RIDES - ENTERTAINMENT - GIANT RAFFLE
Holy Rosary Church Grounds Grounds are paved and flat providing easy access for everyone. Coolers and other large containers are not allowed on the festival grounds. All festival food is freshly prepared by our own cooks. No restaurants here! Just good old fashioned Italian Cooking. Finish your meal with a nice espresso and Italian Pastry by "Luigi's Bakery". Festa! 2010 Announces Entertainment Schedule The Holy Rosary Italian Festival, Festa! 2010, will feature a complete line up of live entertainment for its 43nd annual festival on August 5, 6, 7. The festival is held on Father Salemi Dr., downtown Ansonia. Main stage activities will include popular musical entertainers. Admission to the festival and all entertainment is free of charge. Enjoy!
This year's Festa Entertainment
Midway Rides By Rainbow Amusements Thursday is wrist band night! $20.00 ______________________ Holy Rosary Church Raffle Drawing to be held at Holy Rosary Church Festival Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 10:00pm winner need not be present to win. Price: $1.00 per ticket.
_________________________________________________________________ Why People Enjoy Holy Rosary's Festa! Italian food is among the most popular in the world. And why not? It’s good for you and it tastes great! Of course Italians know this first hand. But Italians share their passion for great food with so many other ethnicities. So maybe there is an Italian leaf or two on the old family tree, even if it is not rooted in Italy! Read on to see if you fit the Italian mold.
In recent years, and in many different cuisines, there has been a decided trend to homey, almost peasant style cooking. Honest cooking! This is the cooking that comes without the small, cute portions and fancy garnishes. It is simple and fresh. It provides the chance to taste the food for what it really is, simple and delicious. Cooking that comes from the heart! Home style cooking has been rediscovered by famous chefs. Mama knew it all along. Make it fresh, use the best ingredients, let the love flow through and let the food be the focus of the meal. At Holy Rosary’s Festa! that has been the standard for 43 years!
When asked why the Holy Rosary Festival has enjoyed so much success for 43 years, it took festival chairman Ron Balabon just about a blink of an eye to answer. “It’s the food”, he said. “Among festivals we are unique here at Holy Rosary. When you visit our festival you will find no private vendors selling dinner foods. We take the food too seriously to leave it in the hands of others. We prepare everything ourselves.”
When Italians celebrate food becomes the focal point of the event. Mama and the girls prepare days in advance, and papa readies his homemade wine. Italians often brag about the number of courses in a holiday meal as they compare stories. It’s a lot of work, but everyone enjoys because they are together, love is around and the food is perfect. Much is the same at Festa!2010. Here is an extended parish family; and everybody is welcome to celebrate. And here too, the food is too important to leave to outsiders to prepare. “It’s something we just don’t think about, adds Balabon. “Every dish is made as if we are serving our own family. That’s why our food is so good, the love comes through!”
Festa chefs are long on experience. For decades they have carefully prepared great meals for their own family feasts and celebrations. And since many of them have such large Italian families, cooking for a few more people at the Holy Rosary festival is, as festival chef Dom Battaglino puts it, “no big deal!” They arrive early in the morning to prepare that evening’s sauce, cook the porchetta, bake the lasagna, clean the calamari and make the zeppole batter.
A recent addition to the Festa menu is Lasagna al Forno (baked lasagna) is prepared under the watchful eyes of Ann and Carmen Pitney. “Our parish ladies prepare all of the ingredients in our kitchens each day”, says Ann. “These women are amazing cooks in their own right. But when you gather them all together for one project, it’s like a local all- star cooking team.”
Another unique treat that takes great preparation and care is the signature dessert item of the festival, the zeppole. These are Italian style munchkins, or donut holes. But that is where the comparison ends. Bite into a zeppole and you experience a taste sensation that is out of this world! What makes a zeppole (pronounced ze’-pole-ee) so delicious? It’s all about the best ingredients. Bob and Theresa Verni, Festa’s master batter makers says it begins with the best, freshest ingredients and a very special type of flour. Farm-fresh eggs, rich ricotta cheese, and an assortment of sweet spices are some of the key ingredients that make this tasty treat what it is. The flavorful batter is made fresh each day so you can enjoy a taste sensation that is simply remarkable. Buy them by the bagful with a touch of powdered sugar and enjoy a truly authentic Italian treat right from the old country to you!
So why do people enjoy the Holy Rosary festival? It’s the food, baby! It’s fresh, it’s delicious and it’s from the heart! Join the fun and celebrate family, food and love, the good things that are Italian.
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