[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by dbussone

If we could get these recipes and people together we would have the best and most favorite restaurant in TV. Yuummmm!

Great idea because actually the best food is "comfort food" or even "peasant food" from one's childhood......very simple fare actually.

So many restaurants today are using the same FROZEN gourmet foods that any one of us can have shipped to our front door via UPS or FEDEX. Chain restaurants are NOT cooking from scratch.

All of these prepared foods are loaded with additives & preservatives. Not natural at all.

It's a rare restaurant that is actually cooking from scratch, using simple fresh ingredients.

The old fashioned "mom & pop" type luncheonette that we all recall is probably long gone by now.........it took long hours, a flare for combining flavors, spices, good ingredients.......& the clientele to enjoy it.

Even making the best meatball for a meatball sub......is elusive.

Most meatball subs purchased "out & about" are horrible nowadays......such as at Subway. Their "veggie delight" with avocado is good.........but their "tuna salad sub" is atrocious.

Most food purchased while dining out just does not have the "old Italian momma's love" in it.

EXCEPTION BEING: Any fresh seafood restaurant that still deep fries their fresh fish. That's a "winner".

I'll post my Italian tuna salad recipe someday. No mayo.