What to serve with a predinner drink? When no one else is around, the answer is, often, another predinner drink. What passes for a cocktail hour in our house involves a glass of whatever wine or beer my wife and I are going to drink with dinner, followed by another glass of the same as we move from kitchen to table.
But when people are over, we like to put on the dog, slicing salami, pouring crunchies into bowls and preparing something hot and crispy that will get the guests’ fingers nice and greasy. We go through phases. Sometimes it’s risotto balls for a few weeks, followed by fried olives for a spell, and then maybe croquettes until they start getting tiresome.
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