"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 12:58:32 -0700, "Pico Rico" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Michael Nielsen" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> >>
>> >> why are you not braising the osso bucco in the oven?
>> >
>> > Well, if you give me a recipe thats better than the pot stewed one I
>> > use,
>> > I might start doing so. However, it wont help me with my in laws gear,
>> > as
>> > there's no oven.
>>
>> Did I misunderstand, or are you in Italy? Italy, the nation with the
>> best
>> food and the best cooks, including home cooks, in the world, and you have
>> no
>> equipment to speak of?
>
> He's in the USA and reading what Julie copied, it looks like he's
> talking about cooking at his in-law's house. Sounds like either it's
> an RV or their oven doesn't work. Or it could be that his wife's
> parents are from somewhere in Asia. Unless they have totally
> Westernized, the ethnic Asians I know use their oven as another
> cupboard. One of my neighbors kept her company dishes in there.

They're in Italy with no oven. I can't imagine that there since Italians
normally make a lot of things in the oven. But I think he said they dine
out a lot.