Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

fos@sdf.org wrote:
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i got my arm twisted about what food to eat exactly once. was my
father. he loved the olive garden.

  eww, my condolences...  i won't eat there again if i can
help it.

first time i went there was
with my parents and he insisted on us getting some italian festival
thingy on the menu. i didn't want it but i caved. breadsticks.
salad. endless pasta. lasagna. the only things that were any good
was the breadsticks and salad. the pasta and lasagna were disgusting.

  putting it mildly (and this from someone who's ok with
eating spaghetti-o's out of the can :) )...

the second time there was with my parents again and i got sirloin
tips with roasted peppers and potatoes. the meat was ok, but it
took them three tries to being me veggies which were not petrified
from sitting under heat lamps. there was no third time, i will never
go there again.

  especially when it is not too hard to make acceptable at
home even from scratch.

  Italian American foods as Grandma taught Mom to make were
our staple meals as younger kids and so for me it is easy,
familiar and very good.  i can make all these dishes myself
if i want as i've done so already probably a few hundred
times, not counting all the times i've helped make them.

  Grandma and Grandpa came over from Italy i think sometime
in the 1920s.  Mom didn't know how to cook when she married
Dad, but Grandma taught her well and she's loved cooking
all sorts of things since.  even now when she doesn't have
to cook she still will for other people and we're always
giving food to friends who appreciate it.  i do a lot of
dishes and helping out here since it does make Mom happy
and i don't mind at all doing dishes.


  songbird