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> On Aug 23, 2:35 pm, Tracy R. > wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:07:13 +0200, "Pandora" >
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>> >"Tracy R." > ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0200, "Pandora" >
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>> >>>Do you remember what dish your grandfather loved to distraction? Mine
>> >>>loved
>> >>>apricots and "Coda alla vaccinara (a typical roman dish). And yours?
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>> >> My grandmother made wonderful battered and fried chicken livers that
>> >> both he and I loved. Nobody else in the family would eat them since
>> >> they were "innards"; but that was cool. More for us and all that.
>> >> <smiles> He was also a big fan of butter pecan ice cream.
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>> >> My grandmother also made a chocolate pie topped with meringue for
>> >> holiday and birthday dinners, and most everyone took the meringue off
>> >> the top and passed it to granddaddy, since we all though he really
>> >> liked it. Finally, when he was 80 or so, my mom gave him her meringue
>> >> for the umteenth time and he looked around the table and said, "You
>> >> know, Sis, I never much liked meringue." <laughs> No one ever knew
>> >> since he ate it without complaint for so long.
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>> >> Regards,
>> >> Tracy R.
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>> >GNAMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! I love this chocolate and meringue. Coud you post
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>> >recipe please? We could make a book on the grandparents cook. Don't you
>> >think so?
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>> This is the recipe. It's not very precise or detailed since grandma
>> didn't measure the ingredients, she just eyeballed it.
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> Never mind the pie; what's the battered chicken liver recipe?
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> I dont' remember my grandfathers' favourite recipes but one of my
> father's favourite meals was young beef liver with bacon and onions.
> I carry on the tradition but I am happy to branch out to chicken
> livers from time to time.
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> John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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Ohhhhh! Also in Italy we make it. We call it "Fegato alla veneziana".
You flour slices of liver and then you put them in a pan with very thin
onion slices and bay leaves. This is the only way I can it leaver !

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