"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 3 May 2011 21:58:24 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> So what's the
>> trick for doing that if you are cooking for just two or three people?
>
> For your pasta salad? It sounds like you need practice with
> eyeballing volume and then you need to learn to limit it. Estimate
> how much food (in volume) that you and your DD eat in one meal and try
> to duplicate that when you make your pasta salad. It's not brain
> surgery.
>

I guess I just have a problem with restraint. I do the same thing when
making soup. I just want so many different things in there.