[Veto!]

.......... “On the weekends, my father did the cooking. He was a better cook than my mother. “

Same thing at our house. Dad was in the restaurant business, had lots of them. His advice re food: :

“Buy the best food you can afford and do as little as possible to it.”

That’s how I cook. Steam organic veggies and potatoes, lightly saute organic boneless, skinless chicken thighs and wildcaught Alaskan Salmon ((great deat at Safeway in freezer) in organic EVOO, Fave dessert is nonfat black raspberry yogurt I get at Trader Joe. Hard to find NONFAT anywhere else.

[mass55th]

We weren't Italian, but my father made sauce from scratch with Italian sausage links and home made meatballs every Saturday. On Sundays, we'd always have a big meal like roast chicken, pot roast, steak and gravy made with round steak, etc. Holidays were always turkey with homemade stuffing, and ham, and he made gravy for all of them. Nothing ever went to waste. He'd make ham and cabbage with the leftover ham, sometimes bean and ham soup, or pea soup. He always bought picnic hams so he'd have the bone to make soup out of.

He used to take me to the meat market on Saturdays every-so-often. We didn't have a car, so we'd walk the mile or so and back to the market. That market was opened in 1946. It's one year old than me, and still survives with two stores in two different suburbs of Rochester. I left Rochester around 1972 or 73. Never get back there anymore as I have no more family there.