I don't bring a lunch every day since there are so many great places in the neighborhood. When I do pack a lunch it usually contains: few pieces of fruit, some nuts, possibly an Odwalla juice, a sandwich, or simple bean & cheese burritto, sometimes a salad...
What're you packin?
Pro Tip: "...so you gotta eat the meat and wash it down with a wet bun..."
Awesome.
No restaurant has been able to match the simple healthy whole foods mom makes. Growing up vegitarian, "What to have for dinner?" was never "chicken, beef, or pork?" Rather it was, "potato, rice, or pasta?" (All grains were "rice" as a kid) You could guarantee that every dinner would be 50% salad & other greens. Mom often has a hard time eating out because the foods are often very rich. Even now that I'm not a vegitarian, I seem to still crave those simple healthly whole foods.
Just for the record, at the beginning of this video whoever was doing the timing did it incorrectly. Once all of the food is in someones mouth the clock can stop, and as long as the food doesn't exit their mouth it counts. I met these guys in Atlantic City a few years ago and they were all sweethearts. Had a few beers with them too, I'm not sure how they did it after each consuming 10+ pounds of meatballs, but who am I to question greatness?
my mom's pasta gravy, her chocolate cake, her stews, her chicken cacciatore, her italian fish stew, her fried morels.
Yorkshire Pudding.
Like Mel, my memory is stuffed cabbage--"prachas" (sp?--I've never seen it written)--made not by my own grandmother but by Grandma Schwartz, the grandmother of the kids across the street and the worst driver any of us had ever seen.
My nonna made a bundt cake that was moist and had a good crumb. I called my mother when I saw this topic and it turns out this bundt cake was from a recipe in ladies home journal and it called for a cup of oil. That cake stayed moist forever. I could probably re-create it if I set my mind to it.
Not that any restaurant would make it, but "Depression Stew"...dating back to the...well, you get the picture. A can of Veg-All (scary stuff), a can of tomato sauce, ground beef, onions and seasonings on pasta or rice (with Parmesan cheese on top). Sounds terrible, but to this day I can't recreate it quite like mom made it.
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