Shore Eats In the Kitchen
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CHRISTINE’S I TA L I A N PA S T RY SHOPPE ‘Stuffing’ has a new meaning this holiday season at the Northfield-based bakery
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T HAS BEEN a more-thaninteresting year for holiday meals. Many families, whether they live hours away or blocks apart, faced quarantines and cancelled holiday traditions. Celebrations with grandma and grandpa have been reduced to family dinner with our immediate housemates. Hopefully as this holiday season arrives, restrictions will have calmed and we can sit down together with our entire families for a
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good holiday meal. One way to bring everyone around the table is by getting a stuffed bread order from Christine’s Italian Pastry Shoppe, an Italian bakery located in Northfield. The smell of the stuffed bread appetizers – a distinctive whiff of bread, pepperoni, sausage and other ‘stuffings’ – will fill the room as soon as you bring it home. If you tell your friends and family you'll be bringing something from Christine’s, everyone will be at the dinner
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table before you know it. The stuffed breads at Christine’s come in four varieties – pepperoni or spinach with provolone, homemade roasted red peppers with mozzarella, and finally hot sausage with hot cherry peppers. Owner Suzanne Gurski and her best-friend-turnedco-worker Carolyn Dearborn start off by prepping the stuffing for the bread before they make the dough. Using grills located behind the bakery, they roast peppers
