Homemade Pizza..

Pork chops with string beans and potatoes marinara.

I hate it when I get that for dinner.

Like four ham salad sandwiches and a grape soda.

You're Irish, huh?

I'm just playing with you, kid .

Hahah. It's alright. Irish-German mostly. I tend to lead towards the Irish more because I'm more fond of whiskey than beer. That and my bright orange hair.

Although, I guess my last name is Welsh. But it is also a pretty common name through all of the UK. Well, and the US.

My great grandmother was big into genealogy and traced that part of the family back more than 600 years. Germany, Austria, England, Ireland, Scotland. Most recently is Ireland though. But again, that's only one side of the family. Technically I'm not even like a eighth Irish because we've been in the states so long. But, I do know my great-great Grandfather came from Ireland on my mom's dad's side and my great-great-great grandparents came from Germany on my mom's mom's side.

But, when someone asks, I say Irish or Irish-German so I don't have to explain all that above lol.

Your orange hair could easily have came from the German, Austrian, English or Scottish in you.

Scotland has the highest rate of redheads per capita in the world.

And it's the Scandinavians who brought the red hair to Ireland thousands of years ago.

Irish hair is blonde, brown or black baby!

Yeah, true. It's just the stereotype. I imagine redheads are just as common in Ireland as we are here.

The German maybe, my grandma had red hair. I doubt the Scottish or any of that other stuff. That's going back more than three hundred years.

I am apparently related to some priest or minister or something that was somewhat famous in his day in England. That was back in like 1545 though lol.

I just looked it up. Ireland has the second most amount of redheads per capita at 10%.

Redheads are not exceedingly common in Southern Italy but they do exist. My paternal grandmother was a very superstitious woman. A lot of Italians are.

Anyway, in her town in Calabria they thought redheads were a jinx because local folklore held that Judas had red hair, if you can believe that. She'd cross herself whenever me or my brother brought an Irish kid home for dinner .

Hahaha. I've been dealing with that kind of stuff all my life. Not the Italian thing though. There are little to no Italians here in Central IL. You'd have to go to Chicago and the Burbs for that. Plus, we don't have real neighborhoods like big cities here. Here we have white neighborhoods and black neighborhoods. Well, we also have wealthy neighborhoods too. And the trailer parks where the blacks and white mix. A lot of hispanics here too. A few Asians but most of them live in apartment buildings.

Lasagna..

Burgers, mashed potatoes and sliced tomatoes with red onions.

Footnote: The Peter Luger sauce that's sold in the meat department of your local supermarket is not the same as the one on the table at the original location in Williamsburg. That being said, it's still the best condiment you're ever going to put on a piece of grilled meat or a slice of tomato.

I use it as a salad dressing.

Me, too!!

So what i'm hearing is that the Luger sauce is good for meat and also to use as salad dressing?....I gotta try it out..That's like a 2 for!

Go for it. I'm sure you can find it in Jersey because I've bought it as far away as Florida. It's usually in the meat case.

Rice balls good

Rigatoni marinara with a scoop of ricotta.

Man,what wouldn't i give for a plate of rigatoni with real marinara just like in ny,not that can shit they sell in the supermarkets here.There is no real italian food here.You have to go to italy get the right stuff

You can surely get good imported canned tomatoes, right?

Good canned tomatoes, good olive oil, fresh garlic and fresh basil. And of course you'll need some good grated cheese to pass at the table. I'm sure that your Mom still has enough Brooklyn in her to show you what to do .

Breakfast for dinner. One of my favorites

Me too .

There's nothing like the t-bone, eggs, hash browns and pancakes at IHOP for dinner every so often. Denny's gets honorable mention, but only down south. The Denny's up here all suck.

yes of course she does,she cooks great and i mean real good.The problem is that my parents are on vacation in Montenegro untill the 3rd,and the girl am living with,Maria(It's speled Marija here in Serbia),although she's a natural blond with blue eyes,lean and beutifull(to me anyways ) cooks only vegan and vegetarin food with low carbs no holesterol no bread(my mom can't stand it).That leaves me to order something,some take out..eh i don't want to complain it could be worse

That's really weird, Alex. I may have told you this before, but I have an Albanian super in one of my buildings. He's in Montenegro RIGHT NOW with his family. They go for six weeks every year.

Yes you told me before,his origins is probably from montenegro.Don't want to break privacy but it's probably one of 3 places:ulcinj,bar or budva,right?My fathers family is also from montenegro originally,from a place called Utjeha,it's righta betwen those places i mentioned before.That's where they are.(my parents)Monte is beutifull,it's tough and roughed but beutifull

I'm going to make a pot of Pasta Fazool. (Red)

I had steak and potato the potato was too hard disappointed

That's what she said, too.

This should be moved to the Viagra thread over in General Discussion.


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