Cooking like my Italian Grandma!
I remember growing up in an Italian household and the wonderful Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs and Braciole my grandmother used to make. I remember always being transfixed with the cooking and all the time my grandmother spent in the kitchen. It seemed to me that she cooked ALL the time. Actually ALL of my memories of my Italian grandmother are of her in the kitchen cooking. When I was a kit I remember just enjoying the good Italian food and all the time we spent at the kitchen table. I remember some dinner being like 5 hours long plus. Plate after plate… Several course meals, sharing laughter and love and good times. I grew up thinking this kind of life-style was normal When I was a teenager we kept having big Italian meals like this but then there was a lot of wine involved and I think the meals got even longer! I would have friends over to share a Sunday meal with us and they were just amazed at all the food … They would eat and drink too much and next feel like a mac truck hit them and did not know how we had meals like that and survived.! Ha! I guess it takes training 
Well, I am now 46 years old and can proudly say that I can cook like my grandmother did. It took years of practice and lots of phone calls with my mother and uncles slowly extracting all the Italian family cooking secrets. It takes a lot of effort, patience and perseverance to learn how to cook like grandma did! …
So I know have all the details of how to cook the Italian Recipes my grandmother used to make and I could not be happier. There are still many more recipes of hers to nail down and I will do my best to get them all figured out. I’m an a quest to achieve this! Very happy with the recipes I can already make but have many more to go!
I have many of her recipes on their all spelled out and a “My Italian Grandmother” page that is dedicated to my Italian grandmother . She would be very pleased to see that here recipes and family traditions are living on. If she were alive today, I would just love to cook a huge pot of Spaghetti sauce for her with all the meats and see how she liked it. I think she would be quite pleased!
Happy cooking, Happy Times and Share the LOVE!
Ciao, Anthony
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