Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?

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Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?
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Tue, 12-29-2009 - 7:24pm

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 1:59pm

I used one of my scoops (I have three sizes) just the other day when I made mini-quiches, easier to fill the little buggers, imo.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-31-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:02pm

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Again, I asked you for the sauce recipe (the non time consuming one) and then you stated you don't share your cheese recipe."

You asked me for my recipe that was not time consuming.

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Yes, so do I which is why I add extra cheese between the layers. I just don't think it's time consuming, making the sauce and then the lasagna consumes times, that's simply a fact. I don't want to mix my cheeses into the sauce, I don't like the way it comes out...I prefer layers. I don't want to turn this into a one step process, I like layers in my lasagna and in order to get layers, one must layer things."

You don't mix it in the sauce (red), you would mix it in the ricotta mix.

"But again, what's the problem with this? I haven't complained, said it was difficult or given any indication that I was trying to save time...so again, what is the issue with my statement?"

Yes, you are saying it is time consuming.

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Registered: 05-19-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:03pm
Can you share that recipe? I don't have a good carbonara recipe.

In the ever timely words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

In the frequently relevant (to so many debates on Ivillage) words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that

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Registered: 12-31-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:03pm
So you saw them prepare Sunday dinners? What type of sauce or gravy did they make? What did their Sunday dinners consist of?
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:04pm

Well I hope you realize that not all Italians are the same as the Italians you know. My father is 100% Italian - his father came over from Sardinia and his mother's parents came over from Sicily. Not only have I lived in Italy, as well as gone back there for a 10-day trip, but I also worked in an Italian restaurant where I learned how to cook by a woman who came from southern Italy and barely spoke English.

Italians that were taught how to cook probably don't rely on cookbooks much. But there are PLENTY of Italians who never learned to cook or didn't pay much attention when their relatives tried to teach them. There are plenty of Italians IN Italy who use cookbooks - I have witnessed it by the several Italian friends/boyfriends I had when I lived there. My father, raised by 100% Italian parents, cooks quite a bit but even he uses recipes.

The only things I don't use recipes for, aside from things I'm just making up as I go, are things that I was taught to make years ago or have made so often, I remember what to use and just fudge the measurements. So no, I don't need a recipe to make "sauce" or lasagna, baked ziti, spaghetti carbonara, chicken marsala, etc. But there are plenty of Italian foods I never learned how to make or haven't made often enough to remember how to do it so I rely on cookbooks or recipes. My father does the same thing. He doesn't use a recipe when he makes Sicilian lamb but he does use one when he wants to make something like veal stuffed with spinach, pine nuts in a cream sauce if he hasn't made it before. Sure, he could probably fudge it b/c he's a good cook, but he's a perfectionist so he wants to make sure it tastes "right."

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Registered: 12-31-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:05pm
Funny we talk about this as I went to a craft/bake sale, run mostly by high schoolers. One table had chocolate chip cookies that were HUGE and flat-lol!! My dh asked one of the kids if they were chicken cutlets (as that is what they really looked like-lol!!). He just looked at him. I guess he never used a "scooper" to make his cookies and thought they looked fine.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:05pm

Again, what do reviews have anything to do with the kind of pizza "I" like?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-31-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:06pm
Sigh-Putting up on a pot of sauce of gravy for an Sunday dinner for Italians mean red sauce (with or without meat).
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:07pm

The one we make uses raw egg which makes me shudder a bit, but I convince myself that it's okay b/c we mix it with hot spaghetti which should cook the egg enough.

And bacon and some of the bacon grease, a bit of white wine and lots of Italian cheese and butter. Oh my. It's heavenly.

My neighbor made it once when I was having dinner with them based on the way his college roommate prepared it. It was awful. Full of oregano and parsley. No herbs in mine though you could add smidge of parsley for color I suppose.

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Registered: 05-19-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:09pm

So you really want to stick to this claim?

"Do you have or did you grow up with an Italian grandmother? I did and they do NOT use a cookbook to cook Italian food-lol!! That is basically an insult to them."

That's fine I stick to what I said. It's ridiculous to say that every Italian would be offended because they are all the same as your grandma. (Evidently all have the same personality & they all cook the same)?

Ha!

In the ever timely words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

In the frequently relevant (to so many debates on Ivillage) words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that

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