Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?

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Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:09pm
That is an American "tradition." You don't see that in Italy.
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:10pm

I grew up on that "style" of pizza, but dh (who isn't from this area) says the same thing about the style, he's not a fan either, lol.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:10pm
I agree.

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."

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:10pm
I didn't "see" them prepare Sunday dinners, I helped make the Sunday dinners. In our family, every girl old enough to wear an apron was part of the prep team or the clean up team. My Dad was a meat cutter, so quite often he would bring home a bunch of chickens and there would be chicken parmesan. And my stepmother would always send us out in the summer to "get" a salad. That is because all of the neighbors had small garden plots and grew four or five different kinds of vegetables, and everyone would just go pick what they needed all over the neighborhood to make their Sunday salad. That is the one meal that I remember most, chicken parmesano and fresh salad maybe because it was my favorite as a young teen. The salad dressing was always just oil and vinegar; there was no other kind. Always served with some kind of pasta, which my father irritatingly referred to as "macaroni" no matter what kind of pasta it was. Special Sunday dinners, like if it were someone's birthday, often involved veal, and my step-grandmother's specialty was veal marsala, usually with a side of "noodles," which is what she called everything from angel hair to fat homemade linquini noodles.
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:10pm
about your opinion wrt catholic education, for some families it is about the bubble sure. but believe it or not that sentiment sometimes come from divorce families themselves too. there's a friend i sub with whose only child attends the catholic school. despite her own failed marriage she wants her child there for the traditions, fundamental values and instruction she grew up with. she's not there to make a statement, nor is she a hypocrite to recognize the differences a school like that brought her and brings her child and what she'd be pressed to find at the public school.



I am not sure I shared my opinion on Catholic education. My issue was the idea that a parent would have "so my kids won't have to associate with children who have divorced parents" as a reason for choosing Catholic school. I hope a divorced parent wouldn't have that as a reason. I think it's a little unrealistic since children with divorced parents DO attend Catholic school, and I have another problem with it..... I imagine the child sitting in Catholic school so s/he won't have to be around those divorced kids, listening to the teacher explain how to be more like Jesus. The child might have to grow up though, before they see the hypocrisy in that.

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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:10pm

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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:12pm
Yeah, the kid that made these cookies thought they looked fine, too...he was proud of how big some of them were. It was cute. I solved the distribution problem by stacking them in the middle of a large round platter and distributing all the other kinds of cookies in groups around them, sort of like a bunch of chips or something around a big round bowl of dip!
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:13pm
You reminded me of one of my Italian friends, who happens to be the most amazing cook in the universe just about. She most definitely uses cook books, and I doubt she has ever made a pot of red sauce, with or without meat, in all her life, since she is from the north. Indeed, "Italian" is a category with lots of variation.

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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:13pm
You mean for the Italians by you.
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:14pm
I have all 3 too. Love them--don't use them all the time, but they have come in handy when making some things.

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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