Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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a number of posters mentioned eating breakfast at Grandma's. After mass on Sundays we would go to my paternal grandmothers for breakfast. My Grandmother had always spoiled her kids. So we could have any variety of breakfast items but my Dad's mom made him a huge bowl of meatballs without the sauce which cued my grandfather to go down to the cellar and bring back a bottle of his home made wine. As kids we were allowed a shot glass serving of wine
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On the other hand my maternal grandmother lived in a rural area and we had an opportunity s kids to take turns spending a month at grandma's in the summer. She had an extremely large garden full of vegetables and fruits and we would go out early in the morning and pick the days entries I can still see Grandma using her apron as a basket gathering fresh strawberries . Sunday's dinner was traditional Italian started promptly at noon and always with pasta accompanied by a roast of some sort. Grandma's lemonade was made to perfection. My grandfather had huge thumbs and so three of his homemade gnocchi could fill you up
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It's nice to hear the love for your grandparents shining through the words of your posts.
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Prefer Top of stove or oven cooking?
Like most my wife and I are opposites. One way we differ is that is she likes most things cooked on top of the stove (grille cooking included) and I prefer most things cooked in the oven, except of course pasta and pasta sauce How do you differ and what is your preference? |
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Here in Chicago it is oven in the winter, grill in the summer. Soon it will be more grill than oven!
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I think seafood must have been a lot cheaper in the 'olden' days because my mother frequently made this mixed dish of scallops, crab and lobster sauteed on in a pan and topped with crunchy seasoned bread crumbs. My father didn't really like beef. pork or chicken so we very rarely ate them except if they were sliced paper thin before cooking. We mostly existed on anything found in an ocean. I also remember my mother letting us go scrape mussels off the jetty for our dinner. Wish I could afford to eat like that every night now, lol.
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When our kids were little we actually ate a lot of steak. We would get porterhouse. We'd give the kids the filet part and we would eat the strip part. It wasn't that expensive back then. We shopped on the military base and it was pretty cheap back in the day. Not anymore !
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I thought everyone ate oysters and clams and lobsters all the time. In the olden days, farmers used lobsters as garden fertilizer. Lobsters were know to be bottom feeders and people thought they weren't fit to eat.
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I love lobster but I still think of them as large insects that live in the water.
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Doesn't this thread make you feel good, remembering family times around the table.......and hungry too?
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Veal was not costly once and my mom cooked veal at least three time a week when we were growing up on the stove in the oven. Metrands mentioned outside cooking vis a vis oven given we live in Florida. Spot on Mrs. Rubicon biggest issue when i ask for a pot roast or beef stew oven roasted chicken, etc her response we have to wait for the cold weather which always comes back to my saying on which day of the year do you believe it will occur? |
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My dad was one of 12 kids. I have 50 first cousins (the Italian side of the family). After church on Sunday as many as could make would go to Nana's for a homemade meal....pasta, roast potatoes, peppers, veal, etc. On the other hand my Mom's family is old Yankee from Maine. I loved summer on the rock beaches with clambake of freshly caught lobsters, mussels, corn from the garden, etc. I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it!
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