Subj : Shanks
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Jul 09 2023 13:23:01

Hi Dale,


 RH> prefer to get something that I don't make at home. OTOH, Steve's mom
 RH> (and dad) always order spaghetti and meat balls. Once, while we were in
 RH> Savannah, we talked Mom into ordering something else--but Dad went with
 RH> the usual. (G)

 DS> From what you have said, I'd expect that your Dad would have ordered
 DS> steak and potatoes:-}}  Actually, we were on a coach tour of Italy and

This was Steve's parents--I know, confusing since we used Mom and Dad
with both sets. Same as our girls used Grandma & Grandpa with both. (G)

 DS> there was one night when we were on our own for dinner, instead of the
 DS> usual group at a restaurant.  A bunch of us went to a restaurant that
 DS> the guide recommended.  The owner set us up in a private upstairs

Sounds like fun. We're in VT again, doing the cooking for the mission
team. Only 6 of us this year so I can cook in family size portions
instead of the 15 or so that we had on our first couple of trips.

 DS> room. He provided four pasta dishes, and we order individual entree
 DS> dishes DS> from a menu.  Two of the pasta dishes were red sauce and
 two were DS> white sauce, including one that had caviar in it.   Since
 we were in DS> an DS> Italian restaurant, I decided to order lasagna
 from the menu.  Gail DS> went with some sort of steak.  My lasagna was
 good, but not much DS> different DS> than we might make a home.  Gail's
 steak was the best she has had -- DS> before or since.

Sounds like you found a winner of a place. Steve and I got here ahead of
the rest of the team. Went to a cidery yesterday, got some apple cider
doughnuts for breakfast and had our first maple creemees of the trip. I
got mine in a dish, with maple sugar sprinkles--yummy! I will not have a
creemee every day, tempting as it is, because it is rather high carb.


 RH> I'll have to check it out some time. We have an Olive Garden in WF, as
 RH> well as the place now under new ownership. Don't think I've seen it on
 RH> the menu at either place.

 DS> I'd not expect to see pork shank on the menu at Olive Garden.

No, most likely not, but you never know. (G)

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Ruth
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