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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,142
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    Al Bano, well known for the song "Felicita", was recently hospitalized due to a stroke. He is recovering now.
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  • tonyb
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  • mhardy6647
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    I like Nutella. Paisan!
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    These 2 guys were spotted at the Hong Kong HMV

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  • maximillian
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    Guess which cold cut is the most popular in Italy? Cool how they hand slice it (ladies in the front). I could have bought a whole leg for about $40 but US customs would probably have had a conniption.

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  • Moose68Bash
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I like Nutella. Paisan!

    Nutella + coffee ice cream = Cappuccino Slam

    A wonderful flavor of ice cream.
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  • Moose68Bash
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    tonyb wrote: »
    Moose68Bash wrote: »
    @tonyb,

    It's GRAVY! :)

    In Jersey it's Gravy, everywhere else....it's sauce, including Italy. lol

    I think the Italian word for it is "sugo," for which one correct translation into English is "gravy." Another correct translation is, of course, "sauce."

    With that said, I confess that my wife's Italian-American family is largely from the New York metro area, and her parents reared her in New Jersey.

    So, I'm biased toward "gravy."
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  • lightman1
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    Biscuits and gravy...
    Sausage gravy....the only kind of gravy.
    Southern types of Polkies speak now!
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  • maximillian
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    Moose68Bash wrote: »

    I think the Italian word for it is "sugo," for which one correct translation into English is "gravy." Another correct translation is, of course, "sauce."

    Sugo only means sauce. There is no real word for gravy in Italian. Loosely people may translate gravy but it is Americanized. Italians typically don't drown their food in gravy. The closest thing to gravy you get is "Bechamel" sauce. I have used bechamel mixed with red sauce in lasagna, but not used as a gravy.

    It's just like "pepperoni". Order a pepperoni pizza in Italy and you won't get what you expect to. Pepperoni in Italian is a large pepper, i.e. a bell pepper.

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  • tonyb
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    Ohhh....my favorite topic, food. The man is right, Italians do NOT drown anything in sauce. The sauce is suppose to cling to the noodles, not do the backstroke in it.

    Everything though in Italy, food wise, is regional. Rome on south is great for the heavier Red sauces and wild boar sauce. Northern and coastal areas are seafood based, or lighter sauces.

    Whatever region your in, your going to want to order that regions specialty foods and wine. Why ? Because that's what they do best, picked fresh, made fresh, cooked to perfection.

    BTW Russ, I have a soft spot for southern Chicken fried steak and biscuits and gravy myself. ;)
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  • mhardy6647
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    I like basil pesto. Check that. I freaking love basil pesto.
    I could eat it at least two meals a day, probably three, in perpetuity.

    We grow garlic and basil so we can make -- pesto. We eat it fresh, of course; it's wonderful on fresh-made pasta. But, I also freeze the stuff in ice cube trays, then pop out the pesto cubes and store 'em frozen, in quart plastic containers, in the deep freeze. A few can be pulled out, thawed (or not) and tossed with pasta to get a taste of summer in the middle of winter.

    As a bonus, we don't much worry about vampires here.

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  • mhardy6647
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    I don't have any pesto pictures, but I can share some of tomato sauce making.
    The Italian contingent will probably shake their heads, but I use a Stonewall Kitchens recipe for a roasted sauce that is really easy to make, tastes wonderful (to us, at least!) and has the side benefit of making the house smell really wonderful while it's being made!

    Best of all, we make it with 100% home-grown vegetables and herbs -- and you just can't beat that.

    Here's an in-process hot.
    28878851224_e40aa32fae_b.jpgDSC_5721 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    Here's the final product -- the CFL hood lights over the stove make it look a really odd color, for which I apologize. It is much more handsome in real life.

    29395260972_ce77b2b19b_b.jpgDSC_5722 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    I froze away 6 gallons of it this year :) (plus, of course, we ate a fair amount 'fresh') -- it was a great year for tomatoes.

    PS Mrs. H always manages to be away on a birding trip when tomato harvest time comes around in early September :)
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  • maximillian
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    Agreed. Don't get me started on soupy pasta dishes. One of my biggest turn-offs is to see excessive liquid in pasta.

    I personally don't like gravy but I am not saying it sucks. It simply isn't an Italian way of doing things. Also, people look at me funny since I don't drown my mashed potatoes in gravy. I am not criticizing people for doing so, it's just not how I grew up eating. It's just a different style of cooking. Same goes with pizza... although Italians invented it, IMO Americans perfected pizza. I am not a fan of Italian pizza although it's not bad, but greatly prefer pizza in the US.
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  • tonyb
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    Pizza is a matter of tastes. Italians for the most part are thin crust brick oven pizza with lighter toppings. You won't find sausage/pepperoni on it, but you will find Arugula, or what they call rocket lettuce, some shaved cheese, Prosciutto. Or a pan style in other regions but the most famous and probably closest to Americanized pizza is from Napoli.

    The differences are obvious, Italian pizza is actually not bad for you because they are using the freshest ingredients possible. Can you say the same for Americanized pizza ? Plus your not going to get a super sized pizza in Italy like here in the states. Portion control, believe it or not, is big there in restaurants. Don't ask for a doggie bag either, they don't have them. You eat all or leave it, and if you don't eat it all expect to be questioned why not.

    Always hard to compare thing to the states....in Italy they grow food to feed people in a certain town locally. Here, we grow food in select states to feed 350 million, and import the rest from Mexico. A bit harder to do without chemicals and preservatives, warehouses to store stuff which all have an effect on quality of the food you eat and obviously the health benefits.

    ....which is why I'm a big proponent for local farming, and not too happy with the big guys who have money to sway laws in their favor like Monsanto, that seeks to choke out the small local farmers. Like we say in audio, it all starts at the source. Your food and health is no different.
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  • tonyb
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    BTW Mark, looks awesome on the sauce. Your using your own homegrown stuff which is why it's probably a knock out.

    Pesto.....was fabulous in Italy on pasta. Seriously, first bite I put my fork down and heard angels singing it was that good.
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  • D2Lo
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    Danny Tse wrote: »
    These 2 guys were spotted at the Hong Kong HMV

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    Come on, that TFA Stormtrooper would never be on the same timeline as Vader! (I'm a nerd) :-)

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    D2Lo wrote: »
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    These 2 guys were spotted at the Hong Kong HMV

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    Come on, that TFA Stormtrooper would never be on the same timeline as Vader! (I'm a nerd) :-)

    Maybe hes just a fashion forward storm trooper whose the trendsetter for this new look lol.....
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  • Moose68Bash
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    maximillian wrote: »
    Moose68Bash wrote: »

    I think the Italian word for it is "sugo," for which one correct translation into English is "gravy." Another correct translation is, of course, "sauce."

    Sugo only means sauce. There is no real word for gravy in Italian. Loosely people may translate gravy but it is Americanized. Italians typically don't drown their food in gravy. The closest thing to gravy you get is "Bechamel" sauce. I have used bechamel mixed with red sauce in lasagna, but not used as a gravy.

    It's just like "pepperoni". Order a pepperoni pizza in Italy and you won't get what you expect to. Pepperoni in Italian is a large pepper, i.e. a bell pepper.

    OK! I say, "Uncle!"

    "Sauce," it is! :)

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  • Jimbo18
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    Our little rescue dog, Annie, 2 months in our house and making herself at home.

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    This is our little rescue, Enzo. He is a Cardigan Corgi / Chihuahua mix. He was a stray we adopted about 10 months ago.... sometimes he "helps" me sketch.
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  • EndersShadow
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    ^Ive got a Corgi as well (Fox)... and a terrier mix(Chewbacca aka Chewey)... and a wiener dog mix (Achilles).....

    I may have a problem lol....

    Then we have my wife's cat Sophie and my daughters beta fish Blue

    Last two dogs were rescues from a organization and a family member who had to give up the dog so we took it in to keep it from going to the pound.

    The pics show Fox, Achilles, Fox and Chewey, Chewey and Skye my daughter

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    Love a good pizza
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    Dan, Dan, Dan... My daughter Kara has been BEGGING for a Corgi for a year now. She thinks she's getting one for Christmas...

    She's not.
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  • EndersShadow
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    scubalab wrote: »
    Dan, Dan, Dan... My daughter Kara has been BEGGING for a Corgi for a year now. She thinks she's getting one for Christmas...

    She's not.

    Come visit sometime when your out and about and she can play with Fox.

    I will say they are awesome pets. The terrier... well he's cool, but around new folks he's NUTS.....

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  • mhardy6647
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    tonyb wrote: »
    BTW Mark, looks awesome on the sauce. Your using your own homegrown stuff which is why it's probably a knock out.

    Pesto.....was fabulous in Italy on pasta. Seriously, first bite I put my fork down and heard angels singing it was that good.

    Heck, even my New Hampsha pesto has that effect on me.
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  • D2Lo
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    EndersShadow wrote: »
    scubalab wrote: »
    Dan, Dan, Dan... My daughter Kara has been BEGGING for a Corgi for a year now. She thinks she's getting one for Christmas...

    She's not.

    Come visit sometime when your out and about and she can play with Fox.

    I will say they are awesome pets. The terrier... well he's cool, but around new folks he's NUTS.....

    cute. My wife and I are a sucker for the rescues. Our last was a Dachshund Beagle mix named Louie who came from an abusive home where he was kicked around and shot at with bee bee guns... after a year of acclimating we got him to understand that we wouldn't let anyone hurt him, but still so much attitude in such a small dog with those two breeds. I had never seen a 20lb dog boss around pitbulls at the park before... he passed Thanksgiving before last at 16. We couldn't go more than a few months before we got Enzo but I wanted to adopt 3 more of course...
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  • Moose68Bash
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    George Washington Bridge | Down Under
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  • mhardy6647
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    Nice photograph!
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    Blue Ridge Parkway.
    Took a week to drive it & the Skyline drive on a Baltimore to Ashville, NC vacation.
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    nice shot!
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