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My tiumph is in the last few years, as I hear my grandma saying in my head, 'when you are old your hands will be dry like mine and you will be able to roll out these cookies easier,' as I roll out our Italian S-cookies better than I ever could as a kid. Then I tell the same to my own kids as I watch them struggling to roll out the dough with their warm little hands.

okmosa at 1:18PM on 12/26/09

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Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table

Why cheap? I adore pasta and beans, and somehow, so do my kids. Aaaah, bacala in red sauce at christmas. Oh, and my favorite little number that I try to recrete now and again: it's sort of like a spread made with tomato paste, anchovies, fennel, and crushed red pepper (as best that I can tell). Lather that on some great bread and it's all over. I wish I knew what my cousins called it.

okmosa at 4:12PM on 10/19/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'

My friends know which Cowgirl Creamery I like, whether it is Mt Tam or Red Hawk, I never remember. But they remember for me. Closer to home, I'm glad we have Eichten's (Tomato basil?) Gouda and Poplar Hill Minnesota Montrachet is almost always in our fridge!

okmosa at 9:09PM on 01/10/09

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Celebrity Chef Holidays: Lidia Bastianich

Thanks in advance - I can't wait! I make tiramisu every Christmas, sometimes Thanksgiving, for my Italian family, but I woudl love a butternut squash twist. A google search landed me empty handed.

okmosa at 7:54PM on 11/18/08

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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!

We grill our turkey every year.

okmosa at 6:33PM on 11/18/08

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Asian Dining Rules'

We are a young-ish family of five and our kids love my home-made nori rolls, Pad Thai from the place down the street, and dumplings (frozen from the bag, of course...) with fried rice night. On a trip last year to NYC we headed for real dumplings in Chinatown (although a friend has since directed me to Flushing for our next trip). We sat down, ordered dumplings in the mid afternoon and dug in. However, these were not dumplings we were accustomed to; all sorts of broth came gushing out. So, without asking what to do, we poked them, drained them and ate them. They were yummy. We must have drank the broth, too, separately. On our way out, satisfied we conquered our family Chinatown experience, we looked at the newspaper clippings on the outside of the restaurant. And there it was: directions how to eat 'soup dumplings' (I think they were called) by piercing the dumpling in the spoon and slurping the goodness up all together. We learned that day to a) read the clippings on the outside of restaurants, b) ask if we don't know, and c) how to eat/slurp soup dumplings.

okmosa at 12:08PM on 11/02/08

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What childhood food do you wish they still made?

Haribo definitely still makes gummi bears (Haribo macht kinder froh!)

What I miss:

Kool-Aid unsweetened mix in raspberry - I mourned the day they discontinued the flavor - it was the sourest. I have an incredible sour tooth and I would go down to the corner store to buy this stuff and eat it like Fun Dip.

Figurines in vanilla. These were diet food in the form of wafers. My mom would bring them home in an effort to diet 70's style and I would eat them all.

Quench gum - the old really sour kind - not this sweet version they've brought back. Again, I have a real sour tooth.

okmosa at 9:13PM on 04/05/08

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