For years I hated eggplant parmagiana. My mother used to make it on ocassion when we were kids and it was my third least favorite dish. Shortly after I started a new job when I was 19, the woman I replaced had a dinner party for the women at work and included me. She wouldn't tell us what she was preparing, other than to say that it was Italian so we would know what to bring for desert. I arrived hungry since I heard Patty was an excellent cook . I was disappointed when I saw that dinner was to be eggplant parmagiana - one of the few Italian dishes I could not stand. It turned out to be one of the best meals I've ever eaten and is now one of my favorites. Turns out my Irish mother just had no idea how to prepare it. When I think of all the times I turned down invitations to stay for dinner at my Italian best friend's home when eggplant was on the menu I could just kick myself!
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Posted: Aug 20, 08 6:52am
TexasGma
 Posted: Aug 20, 08 6:55am I know im gonna catch hell for this but...For years i cooked my Tuna fish... I guess i never paid much attention to how it was prepared. I had to work 72 hours strait at work many years ago and if this hadnt happened i suppose id still be "boiling it". I brought several canned items for this long weekend to cook in the staff break room. So while tending to my Tuna on the stove co-workers asked me "What the hell are you doing?" I looked at them as strangely as they were looking at me and replied "why, do you want some?"...Thats when i was corrected. At first i thought they were playing with me but after confirming this through immediate phone calls to people i knew would be honest with me i realized I had been doing this wrong!, No wonder it never tasted anything like the way it did when others made it, and all those years of straining it were for not!...I just figured it was just how i prepared it AFTER i boiled it that made taste the way it did..Makes me wonder about other things culinary.. So what about you!  Well, it's a wonder you had any tuna left if you actaully boiled it....but yea, that would not be too good to eat. We learn as we go. Our DIL likes it (out of the can) with just garlic salt & lots of mayo....but when I was a very young bride I just didn't know that much about cooking. Never had to & married a guy who loved his mother's home cooking...you get the picture. It was just like the Everyboby Loves Raymond show. Serioulsy, my MIL & FIL were Frank & Marie....except instead of coming to our house they insisted INSISTED on us being at theirs. And we lived about the same distance away, almost next door. Anyway, in their eyes I couldn't cook anything right. Now I did make a 'mean' corn beef & cabbage hash w/ hot biscuts...but everynight about supper time here she came to see what we were having & of course it wasn't done right so she would drag us to her house & announce proudly that "since I had messed up another meal we needed some real food.' I had 4-younger SIL's still at home & they didn't help the situation each being a Betty Crocker & Vouge Pattern themselvesYep, I lived through that without killing or maiming anyone. And I did endure & eventually learned to cook, even her fried chicken & w/o her help. So there! Posted: Aug 20, 08 7:06amAnthony, Give me your mothers telephone number! I'm going to give her a piece of my mind! Shame on her.... no mama "should let her babies grow up to boil tuna"!! Posted: Aug 20, 08 7:06amThat's pretty funny. Well, I thought salt made water boil faster and then was corrected just a couple months ago by my husband... Posted: Aug 20, 08 7:08amBoiled tuna? I just looked at the label on a tuna can Anthony - no where does it say boil, strain, eat. :) My disasters have been putting too much of something in a dish... curry or baking power... rule #1 for those two - a little goes a long way. Posted: Aug 20, 08 7:15amTony, if you can admit, I can admit: I used to tell people that I didn't understand why they had to bleach eggs white, instead of just leaving them their natural brown color. I was quite the adult before someone clued me in!
anthonyfromboston
Posted: Aug 20, 08 7:20amBoiled tuna? I just looked at the label on a tuna can Anthony - no where does it say boil, strain, eat. :) My disasters have been putting too much of something in a dish... curry or baking power... rule #1 for those two - a little goes a long way. LOL..Kathy do you think i ever even THOUGHT to look at the can for preparation instructions...It just one of things you just know how to do like PB&J... | ADVERTISEMENT  |
