"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
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> Dimitri wrote:
>> Last night was Forage Night.
>>
>> Forage: To use as many left over's as possible to satisfy the old truism
>> " Waste Not Want Not".
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> Served with rice vinegar & sesame marinated cucumber & red bell pepper
>> strips.
>>
>>
>> Do you forage?
>
> Oh, sure, but we just call it "leftovers night". It doesn't happen all
> that often here, to be honest. James has been a good influence on me over
> the years, and most times, I make just enough food for dinner, so we
> rarely have leftovers. I used to throw out a lot of food; now I barely
> throw away anything, and I attribute that to learning how to cook smaller
> quantities. My mother's half Jewish and half Italian, so I grew up
> learning to cook for an army. My mom still does, and when I was there
> visiting last week, her fridge was a fright -- some stuff in there, even
> she couldn't identify, and she'd presumably cooked it at some point.
>
> Serene


My BIL's wife is the same 1/2 Jewish 1/2 Italian (both parents from Boston
now both gone)

One year there were coming down to the vacation place we usually rented & I
was making a big pot of Italian Gravy.

She came into the house and started to tear up.

I said " What's the matter?

She said "It smells like my mothers house and I miss her terribly"

Dimitri