First of all, I am very happy for all the responses, especially Mr. "I
not -I" for the link to http://tinyurl.com/olivegardencopycats. Today I
plan to make the "Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli Soup in a Crock Pot"
recipe at night. It sound yummy and I think all the recipes items are
easily available at the grocery mart. I will e-mail to this chatrum the
results from my first try at Italian cooking!!

>On 4/11/2012 5:49 PM Kalmia wrote:
> On Apr 11, 5:03 pm, Victor > wrote:
>> Hi friends:
>>
>> I just come to USA in January from Indonesia for higher studies. Two
>> American things I enjoy very much are the football and Italian food.
>> Yesterday I eat in the restaurant call Olive Garden. The food was so
>> delicious! Where I can get recipe for the Italian dishes they serve?
>>
>> Thanks
>> VK
>>
>> PS: What means by gunocchi?
>
> The Italian food will be better at an independently run restaurant.
> Think of Mamma and Pappa in the kitchen.
> Olive Garden is just a big chain and all the food is much too salty
> and NOT made with love.
>

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean by "NOT made with love" (my
English is not so good - sorry). The salt was OK when I eat and the
waittress was very lovely too, although I don't think she is Italian!

Also, I am very impressed that these forums are so active. I check some
of the other e-mails and so many interesting things.