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The one she makes is just butternut squash, red peppers, and chicken stock.

Very simple.

Very tasty.

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I'm pretty sure it is the same one where I was on Tuesday evening...can't name names but it's not far from you. Never been to Monte Cristo's

Am thinking of coming over to set the record straight and start up my own place, Italian food is light and healthy, full of flavour, not swathed in heavy sauces and you should never combine cream and tomato it's sacrilege! The only good thing i had was Olives and they were from a jar..:rolleyes:

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Sounds good -mine is just bn squash, carrots, onion, potato and stock.

Will give your Ma's recipe a try..:)

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Yes, know what you mean, that was a bad choice of words. I mean more convinced in my atheism, not doubting that I am an atheist and not an agnostic.

Religion has given us some wonderful buildings and art especially in your adopted part of the world, plus some great music. I've been a choral singer for years and you can't beat a good go at Messiah.

Shame about some of the other things that religion has brought us though.

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Best Italian food I ever had wasn't in Milan, Rome, or Florence, it was in London.

Eating all the food Milly's Nonna Lotti used to make for me, and have sent over.

Better stop licking my lips before someone decides I need exorcising...bringing us neatly back on topic.

:D

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i grated our pumpkin 'brains' into a meatloaf, bulks it up, gets veg in the kids and doesnt waste any food :)

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Me too.

I was raised a Methodist, but am a sucker for incense, a bit of overblown Baroque bling, and some Gregorian chant.

Still a happy a non-believer though.

:D

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Mobertol - I know which 'restaurant':rolleyes: you refer to.
Last time I went there the food was inedible ('off' salmon)- I left after paying only for the spring water.

It is now a year since I ate out, I enjoyed Quattros - reasonably good eating then.

There used to be a very small Italian restaurant on Blackburn Rd Antley.
The food was so good it was fully booked up every weekend and you had to book a weekend visit 6/8 weeks in advance. It wasn't a pizzeria (pie shop), nor a trattoria (cafe) - it was a true ristorante. The chef/owner was from the alpine region so that would have been ideal regional food for you. He made a mint here - enough to buy a restaurant back home.

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Upon learning this I'm not surprised she was rather unmoved by your gift of tea-towels, G. The last thing Cinders wants is a new broom:rolleyes::D

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I quite liked the look of Zen Bhuddism, but it was a bit like living as though you are dead already - purity of thought, no ego, and a mind empty of useless surmising/worry.

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You've always given this a good rating.

Will definitely go and try it.

:)

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That place was fantastic!

The name's on the tip of my tongue.

We were talking about it the other week, as one of the best eating places we've ever had round here.

Was he Swiss, or have I dreamt that bit?

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It was named after the village he came from in the Italian alps - and I don't remember the name either.

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Thanks.

I won't wrack my few remaining brain cells then.

:D

I was getting something begining with 'C'.

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Was it not called Valentino's, or something similar?

Not a village, I know, but it's ringing my bell now.

:confused: