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My Sopranos Luncheon
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03/30/07 10:17 AM
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The Italian Stallionette
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No, I'm not having lunch with the Sopranos(I wish) A few months ago, before I moved, a co-worker gave me this cookbook. I was thrilled. Along with recipes, it shows Soprano family pictures, (i.e. Medow's graduation, holidays with the Soprano family, etc). It has receipes for "men only" gatherings, confirmation, Easter, etc.) Anyway, every so often my daughters and I will have what we call a "girls day", either going to lunch, shopping or just hanging out. We talked about having a "Sopranos lunch" after I moved to my new place, with each of us picking a receipe out of the book and making something new. Well, today is the day. We went to the Italian market in Tustin yesterday to pick up some stuff. It won't be a seven course meal, but rather a "luncheon". Call me goofy, but I even got out my good china. We are really making this a special event and all regard it as a special bonding time I guess. We are all having fun. I will be taking pictures and hopefully will post some (if I can figure it out.) My girls "know" that I post here, and know about our BB meets, and even know who I am talking about if I say Geoff, Lori and SC (even though they can't figure out why I call him S.C. and not his name ) For some reason, they find that amusing. They DON'T know that I am "The Italian Stallionette" (that would crack them up), nor do they know that my avator is Carmella Soprano. My daughter e-mailed me yesterday (yes, we talk on the phone and e-mail ) about this lunch and started with "Dear Carmella" I wasn't going to post this basically "unimportant" thread, but figured why not share it with the BB. I'm looking forward to it. Anyway, thanks for letting me share. TIS
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: The Italian Stallionette]
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03/30/07 10:22 AM
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That sounds cool. Please post some recipes that you've made.
I actually had my sister and brother in law over one night to watch The Godfather and I made Clemenza's recipe and bought cannolis. My brother in law brought the booze. It was quite a night.
Last edited by Beth E; 03/30/07 10:22 AM.
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: Beth E]
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03/30/07 10:26 AM
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My girls have never seen GF, can you believe it? Both my daughters (and sons-in-law) like the Sopranos, but don't have HBO and have only watched a couple seasons when a friend lent them to me. TIS Beth, looking through the cookbook, most of the receipes appear surprisingly easy. Almost every dish requires olive oil.
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: Don Cardi]
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03/30/07 11:02 AM
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DC, That would be wonderful. Lunch is at 1:00 (3:00 your time) You still have time to catch a flight if you hurry. I'll get the ingredients for those little blue drinks your so fond of. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: Sicilian Babe]
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03/30/07 09:44 PM
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Those books sound really interesting. I wonder if they have chapters like:
1. Accounting for all your butcher knives
2. Ten new uses for your walk-in freezer
3. A sit-down dinner vs. a "sitdown" dinner
4. Unobtrusively removing the body from the buffet table
5. "It's not a bloodstain, it's wine!"
6. "It's not wine, it's a bloodstain!"
But, seriously TIS...
When do we eat??
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: pizzaboy]
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04/02/07 05:13 PM
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I find it kind of amusing (and fun), how they put the Soprano family pictures (i.e. Meadow's Graduation) as "real" events. Anyway, I'll take it you can see the pictures, so I'll do a couple more. Our lunch consisted of Shrimp Aragonate, which I made, and one daughter made Bowtie pasta with fresh tomato and mozzerella and my other daughter made an Italian Egg/greenbean & vegetable salad. Of course, fresh Italian bread, and we each had a canoli for desert. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290febe1f3c00000016108BatmbRyya8http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290fa639ed300000016108BatmbRyya8Me and my oldest daughter(TIS Jr) http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290e9295f3800000015108BatmbRyya8Me and my daughter, TIS the third http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290eced1f6600000016108BatmbRyya8The bad part was, nobody was available to take a picture of all three of us together. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290e2241fa800000016108BatmbRyya8So two days later we were all together at my daughter's and I had my son-in-law take a picture of the three of us. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b7da23b3127cce8290b2921f3600000016108BatmbRyya8Geez, this reminds me of the old joke, "you wanna see pictures of my vacation?" You know when everyone stuck looking a home movies for 3 hours. Thanks for letting me share. We decided we are going to make a yearly thing out of this. TIS
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"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: pizzaboy]
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04/02/07 05:39 PM
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Finding a good Italian market is hard to find in CA IMHO. I always compare the Italian bread or pasta sauce to what my mom's tasted like, and if it's close, it's good. I do make my own Italian bread, but unfortunately haven't done so in a while. The bread I got was a hard crust Sicilian and I must say it was delicious. Don't know how it would compare to NY though. I have a feeling any Italian food is better in NY. TIS
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"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: My Sopranos Luncheon
[Re: olivant]
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04/02/07 06:09 PM
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Most of my time is still spent in New York, but I am in South Florida quite a bit. And I have to say, that over the course of the last 10 years or so, they've come a long way, in culinary terms. There's a pizza place in Delray Beach, that I'll dare say, would probably succeed in New York. Just go into any PUBLIX and you'll be shocked at the quality of the meat and fish departments. Bread, on the other hand, well, only in New York, right ?
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