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lak611
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I never heard of any of those. Do supermarkets sell that stuff, or is it only available in Italian specialty shops?
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I never heard of any of those. Do supermarkets sell that stuff, or is it only available in Italian specialty shops?
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a_priori
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Mashed potatoes give me an endorphin release.
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CarolAnnSFO
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Most supermarkets will sell at least one of them, but maybe not all of them, and probably not every variety in every brand.
Acini pepe looks like you took spaghetti and cut it into tiny-tiny little pieces. Tubettini are tiny little short tubes. Ditallini are slighty larger short tubes.
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lak611
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How do the tubettini and ditallini compare in size to rigatoni?Most supermarkets will sell at least one of them, but maybe not all of them, and probably not every variety in every brand.
Acini pepe looks like you took spaghetti and cut it into tiny-tiny little pieces. Tubettini are tiny little short tubes. Ditallini are slighty larger short tubes.
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CarolAnnSFO
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They’re both much smaller than rigatoni. Ditallini are about 1.5 times the size of the eraser at the top of a pencil, and tubettini are perhaps half the size of the eraser.
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lizaanne
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lak611
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Wow, that is tiny!
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thechrismyster
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i kid you not… i STILL make that sandwich for myself once in a while. or put a little romano cheese onto a piece of white bread and make a little cheese stick… squish it up real hard! good stuff…Another of my favorite comfort foods – blue cheese (I kid you not). It brings back childhood memories, when my favorite sandwich was blue cheese on squishy, white bread.**
my wife laments how quick we go through blue cheese in our house… i put it on EVERYTHING!
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lak611
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Come to think of it, I have seen those in soup at restaurants. I just didn’t know what they were called.They are eeny teeny.
Do a Google image search - that may help also.
~Liza
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CarolAnnSFO
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That’s what makes them a good substitute for the pastina. I can’t always find pastina in the stores here, either, but there’s always at least one or two other kinds of tiny shape available.
Hey, I thought of another comfort food – baked beans (New England style) with sliced up frankfurters in it. A little added chopped up onion and a bit of brown sugar added during the cooking makes it even better!
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lak611
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I hate hot dogs! I ate one when I was a little kid and bit into crunchy bones. I’ll never touch one of those things again.
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Convert_in_99
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EWWW!
I don’t like them either. I once watched how they were made…every part of the pig or cow, that is not considered usable for actual meat, is put in there. EWWW!
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ltbpoe43
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Maa cher - daa makin groceries and gonna put that homemade Zatarain’s root beer in da icebox with the watermelon chillin in the #2 tub. Laissez bon temps roulle~
Hey----hows ya momnthem???
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CarolAnnSFO
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:bigyikes: Aaaaccckkk! I don’t blame you – hot dogs aren’t supposed to have bones. Thankfully, I’ve never encountered a bone in a hot dog.
I’m glad to see all the blue cheese love in this thread! I’m in the mood for a nice blue cheese sandwich now, but I ate all the blue cheese for breakfast! I discovered a new brand – St. Peter’s (made in Minnesota), and it is awesome!
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lizaanne
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When I was little, my mom used to make sugar bread for me.
Soft white Wonder Bread, spread with soft butter, then coated with white sugar. OH WOW - does that bring back some memories!!! Mmmmm!!
Oh - and on the bones in hot dogs thing (how disgusting is that??) - you won’t find that in Michigan, thank goodness. We have some of the most stringent meat packing laws in the country. And if you ever want to be totally sure of getting a boneless hotdog, always buy Kosher.
They are the best dogs anyway.
~Liza
Soft white Wonder Bread, spread with soft butter, then coated with white sugar. OH WOW - does that bring back some memories!!! Mmmmm!!
Oh - and on the bones in hot dogs thing (how disgusting is that??) - you won’t find that in Michigan, thank goodness. We have some of the most stringent meat packing laws in the country. And if you ever want to be totally sure of getting a boneless hotdog, always buy Kosher.
They are the best dogs anyway.~Liza
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lizaanne
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This is a beautiful thing -
Take a clean empty mayo jar. Pour in a bottle of Russian or Catalina dressing, and a package of crumbled blue cheese. Shake it up and let it set for about a day before using. It is a thing of beauty on a fresh spinach salad.
~Liza
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lak611
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Don’t the stores in Michigan sell the hot dogs that are packed wherever? I don’t think Oscar Meyer, Ballpark, Sugardale, etc. are packed locally. Or do you just buy them from the deli counter or from a local butcher shop?Oh - and on the bones in hot dogs thing (how disgusting is that??) - you won’t find that in Michigan, thank goodness. We have some of the most stringent meat packing laws in the country. And if you ever want to be totally sure of getting a boneless hotdog, always buy Kosher.
~Liza
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lak611
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I never heard of Russian or Catalina dressing either.This is a beautiful thing -
Take a clean empty mayo jar. Pour in a bottle of Russian or Catalina dressing, and a package of crumbled blue cheese. Shake it up and let it set for about a day before using. It is a thing of beauty on a fresh spinach salad.
~Liza
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BlestOne
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CarolAnn… try adding some ketchup, hot mustard and lima beans to it … Or use smokies
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CarolAnnSFO
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That all sounds good! I think that when my mother used to make this, she did add ketchup along with the chopped onion and brown sugar (and the franks).
I could have this for dinner tonight! (Since it’s Friday, I’ll substitute another penitential practice).
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