I'll put a couple of cherries in my martini. That takes care of the dessert cart & the liquor. LOL :clap2:

Hi villages PL : you missed the point.

And as to eating healthy, most foods are healthy for various reasons. Steaks are healthy as are lentils. What we are discussing in this thread is arranging those healthy foods into appealing meals. My mother was a dietician her Italian Wedding soup was to die for as was her leg of lamb or veal roast. I have eaten pasta with a meat sauce my entire life. In fact my mother filled my baby bottle with pasta sauce. i am still here and work out 3-4 days week and have no belly fat.

I didn't want to go down this road with you about this but you have been a nudge for the past seven pages

Please don't preach to us join with us in sharing memories and recipes you enjoy and create for you "pure pleasuring in eating"

Personal Best Regards:

The Slow Food Society
 

I joined The Slow Food Society in Italy and now I am a member of the chapter in the U.S. This society started as a joke in Italy as a group to counter the first McDonald fast food in Italy. Now it has spread far and wide helping out local producers and restaurants using those local ingredients. As long as the dishes come out delicious, we can even wait an hour having drinks and what not. One day, they'll be restaurants like that in The Villages. I want to believe there will be a visionary chef like that here too. Where are you graduates of CIA, not that CIA but Culinary Institute of America. I am a foodie, foodie, foodie and miss great foods of the world. By the way, I like Oakwood Barbeque for one.

Bananas Foster would seem to solve that dilemma, or perhaps Cherries Jubilee. Oops we have a new conundrum.

Yes. You're right. Bananas Foster would be one way to fill that order.:MOJE_whot:

I really think THIS is what is off topic. The topic is about the pleasure of eating and the memories and good times it brought/brings. the topic in no way is about healthy eating or what was done "badly."

The topic is "pure pleasure of eating". People are trying to share memories that brought them pleasure and joy. It's a treat to read the nostalgic posts.
If the thread becomes contentious, it is because of the repeated efforts of one negative member to derail the topic.

I agree with this, and I would hope the thread does not get closed due to one poster who continues to go off topic.

I don't have very many good food memories from growing up. My mom made killer potato salad, but that was about it, and our family dinners frequently degraded into family fights! C'est la vie, and I'm happy that the family my husband and I have created turned that trend on its a**.

But I have really enjoyed everyone's reminiscences and hope my children and their cousins will be commenting on good memories they have on a similar forum somewhere down the line.

Your post reminded me of my grandmother's (first generation German-American) German Potato Salad. She passed the recipe on to my mother, who always fixed it for family dinners, and church dinners, where it was enthusiastically devoured. My wife is now the keeper of the tradition and it still tastes like Gramma's. I have had German potato salad at many German-American restaurants and have not found one that comes close to my Grandmother/Mother/Wife's.

We used to have wonderful family dinners with my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents.
The highlight would be when my Aunt Hazel sat down at the piano.
Everyone in the family would gather around and sing old favorites, like "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "Now is the Hour".
That was a very long time ago, and of course most of my relatives have since departed beyond the veil.
But I have some wonderful memories.

Just adding my support to this sentiment. Enjoyable topic so far when it stays on topic.

The above statement and question is from the opening post. It doesn't say that God has given us only one special gift. The pure pleasure of eating is just one of the gifts. Then the question is asked, "What say you?"

I say two other special gifts are the gift of life and usually health, at least at first. So we have these three gifts from God: Life, health and the pleasure of eating. If we turn the pleasure of eating into an addiction for junk food and overeating, we may lose health & life.

So we would be taking one gift and abusing it to the point of destroying the other two gifts. Is that what God intended? Really?

This is what's happening in our nation today with 2/3 of people being overweight. And many of those who are not overweight are "overfat", meaning that their percentage of body fat is too high. Diabetes, heart disease and cancer are at epidemic levels. Something over one million people die prematurely every year from these degenerative diseases. And it's not just about staying alive -no one is going to live forever- it's about the quality of life.

This is not off topic unless you take one portion of it out of context.

Remember: There are many gifts from God and no one gift should be misused to the destruction of the others.

Many people who are not overweight are overfat. Really? :ohdear:
How have you reached this conclusion?
There are also adults who are anorexic, and get no pleasure from eating at all.

I knew I should have not eaten all that fried chicken last night said no one ever ! :1rotfl:

Yes, it's called a "potbelly" in case you haven't noticed. Some people are not technically overweight but carry a lot of fat on their stomach.

Just open your eyes to observe the world around you. And if that doesn't work, do some reading. This has been mentioned a lot in various health books: For most people, muscles deminish with normal aging while weight increases gradually. This often leads to a high percentage of body fat.


Yes, and your point is?