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I don't know what a crepe or ziti is. Apple butter?? 
I always feel stupid after I read your blog 
Nahhhhhh. Crepes are these at best delicate or at worst gummy very thin pancakes that various restaurants here are fond of sticking stuff into. Apple butter is goo like preserves except the texture is kind of like if you took apple sauce and put it in the food processor and made it smoother. Oh, and ziti is tube-y pasta.
OMIGOD, I actually have a "cooking" comment!!! I 'wok' a lot - peanut oil does work best, but lately I've gone to olive oil for it, which, truthfully, does not give the best results for fried rice. Mind you, when I cook a meal, the Half-a-Nannies just eat up gratefully, marvelling that I managed it at all.
Shut UP! We know that you can do this cooking thing, and the Half-a-Nannies recognize this as well. Baaaaaa! I don't even attempt fried rice. I guess if Nani had been Asian sted Italian, we would have seen more wokking in my house. Although Mom does makes some mean chop suey.
Mmmm now I'm drooling!! It doesn't help that I just threw a pork stew in the crockpot that required browning the pork in onions and garlic, so now my house smells unbelievably heavenly!! I don't know where I got my cooking gene from; my real mom can't cook for shit (though she does make almost everything from scratch; she just never made much of a variety), and my dad only visits the kitchen to raid the fridge. But I loooooooooove to cook.
Elle, the next time you make that delectable ziti, you invite me over, okay???
I can't use peanut oil. My daughter turned up with a peanut allergy; I have no idea why. None of us have any allergies at all, not even seasonal ones. It's a really stressful thing, let me tell you -- and she hasn't even started school!
I love to cook as well! And the pork roast sounds wondermous. I am in the trying not to have to grocery shop for one more day mode, I'm getting low on ideas and freezer stock though. I may have to go in a while.
And Bluesleepy, you are welcome any time, ziti or no.
Dern, you wonder how all that happens, allergies and such. I've actually developed allergies (sinus crud etc) as an adult.
I'm so hungry after reading that, and your HaloScan ad says "Lose 30 pounds in 30 Days." Not eating ziti and frying stuff in peanut oil, I won't!
Suzi: Gotta love Haloscan, they just seem to know exactly what to do to push our buttons!
I never knew about "coloring" the ziti to avoid having it glom together in a big ball. Huh! You sound like you know your Italian cookery.
I used to work at a Magic Pan restauraunt, where one of my jobs was standing at the crepe wheel, turning the pans with the crepe dough on the bottom. Despite that, I still love crepes.
JD: Yep, my dad is full-bleed Italian, and when my parents married, my Nani (dad's mother) sent a huge envelope full of her recipes to my mother. She wanted to make sure her little boy would eat! So there are a lot of good Italian recipes floating around my family!
Magic Pan! I'd forgotten about them -- there aren't any around here. I guess LA is a non-crepe state or something.
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