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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My little Italian grandma lived until 96.

She ate eggplant parmigiana, crusty Italian bread, Italian bean soup, chicken parmigiana, all types of pasta with red sauce, big pots full of braised beefs and sausage all in red sauce. Difference being every single thing she made was from scratch. She had a hand grinding pasta maker attached to her kitchen counter. There was never not a pot of red sauce cooking on the stove. She was 5 foot nothing and weighed 90 lbs soaking wet.

We went to farms and picked our own of whatever was in season. Then we made jam of the fruits, canned the vegetables, made fresh pies/cakes for that week out of whatever was fresh. At Easter we made Italian Easter pie and spaghetti pie. At Christmas we had the feast of the 7 fishes.

She was an amazing cook. She grew up on a farm, her mother died when she was 10, and she took over all the cooking and everything else. Hard life, and an evil step mother to boot who came in later, leading to an unfortunate very young marriage to escape her situation. But a heart of gold despite it all and a wonderful grandmother. Even my mother would tell you she had the best MIL ever. [/quote]

She sounds like my sweet little Italian grandmother.

When she made homemade pasta she would cover the entire kitchen table rolling it out by hand as thin as she could. [/quote]

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