OT: strained kitchen humor

[Bob Stockler]

Bill Campbell wrote (on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:07:01PM -0800):

| On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Bob Stockler wrote:
| >Brian K. White wrote (on Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:27:36PM -0500):
| ...
| >I've known what a colander was for over 70 years.  My Mother
| >used one to wash sand off of spinach or kale greens when she
| >prepared them for dinner (I loved kale, but hated spinach,
| >though I'd eat some of the sliced hard boiled eggs she always
| >put on top of the spinach she served).
| >
| >We didn't have pasta in those days, but had what Mom called
| >Italian Spagetti - but it wasn't, it was a cassarole that
| >contained ground beef, spagetti, mushrooms, and assorted
| >spices and other ingredients.  It was gooood!, but I didn't
| >learn what *real* Italian Spagetti was until I visited Rome
| >much later in life.
| 
| That sounds like my mother's recipe -- much better than the Italian's idea
| of pouring some sauce over a plate of limp noodles (and much better the
| second day than the first :-).

You got that right!!!  Especially the parenthetical afterthought.

In Rome at Afredo's, at our dinner there, the leader of our party
and his wife (at our table) got to use the gold tableware utinsils
(supposedly) used by Good Ole Doug Fairbanks and his lady when they
dined there.  Their dinner was good, but no better than ours, and
neither came up to what my Mom used to call "Italian Spagetti".

Bob

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