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This is Rob.

Making my family's Sunday Gravy and angel hair pasta for K's clan. Cooking away.

Crap wine glass is empty  BRB

What's "Sunday Gravy"...???

Dinner will be a really thick steak on the BBQ...

Oops...I think this topic should be in the Food & Drink forum...???

Sushi and chicken wings, weird combo I know but tasty.

Sunday Gravy, served with pasta is an Italian sunday dinner extravaganza. Peeps over here call it spaghetti which doesn't even come close to describing this particular nirvana.

I always think of gravy as something you make from meat drippings with flour and water.  It's thick and brown.

Then there's SAUCE, which can be  a myriad of things....:/

It probably should be on the Food and Drink board, but I'm not sure how to move it.

I'm new.

Prime rib...steamed potatoes, broccoli with asiago, curried maple glazed carrots and a nice salad...a deep red wine from Yorkville Cellars.

http://www.yorkvillecellars.com/

This is our New Year's celebratory meal, just the two of us.  We'll raise our glass to the homestead family...all of you.

Linguine with shrimp and crushed garlic.  A little cream and parmesan cheese.   I might chop a tiny bit of habenero for a kick.

Pot Roast/ making a stroganoff, with egg nooodles, and broccoli.  Red wine... cold icy rain is coming down, supposed to mix with snow later. Good friend coming in from Baltimore.

On Sundays my grandpa Emmanuel would take the kitchen table out on the lawn and turn it into a buffet table for his 10 children and the whole neighborhood. He would make Sunday gravy (marinara sauce) filled with slow-cooked meats that flavored the sauce: braciole, pork chops, chicken thighs, rabbit, sausages and meatballs. He would simmer the meats for hours, then pull them from the sauce pot and separate them into stacks on a large platter. He would toss spaghetti, which he referred to as macaroni in English, with half of the remaining sauce and add lots of cheese to it. The extra sauce would be ladled on top of dinner plates of meat and macaroni. This recipe is all I can do to imitate Sundays with Emmanuel in 30 minutes.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/sunday-gravy-and-macaroni-spaghetti-really-recipe/index.html?oc=linkback

Gomez made chili- TEXAS chili = NO BEANS. I made the cornbread in my cast iron skillet. No wine- I'm still recovering from this stupid flu.

Is Rob a Sicilian? Trust me, one does not say Italians and Sicilians are one and the same. I have also heard it called Sugo. All depends on the geographic location - my in-laws were from N. Italy.

Maybe we should get this topic moved over to "Food and Drink" ??

Anyway, last night,  grilled beef tenderloin, roasted potatoes with onion and feta, roasted asparagus, a nice merlot, and a chocolate cake made from scratch by my 14 year old.  Not much to look at, but it tasted really good !!  Still figuring out about that sticking to the pan business....

Red beans and rice with cornbread and cranberry tea for lunch/supper today.

Lazy today, ordered pizza.

Lunch was an egg over easy with the left over roasted potatoes.   Haven't figured out dinner yet.

Tilapia, mashed potatoes, broccoli all cooked while finally being able to talk to the frenchman....and then three margaritas so far.  This new year is looking pretty good right about now.