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I'm an ok cook. Just basic meals like pasta with pesto, tomato sauce, olive oil & veggies. Sauted steaks, chick & fish with some Italian herbs/spices. All simple stuff with no more than 2-3 ingredients tops. I agree with thedoc that u don't need a lot of herbs/spices to make things tasty
I do make make my own pesto sauce in batches and freeze it. Oh and I just started making my own minestroni & chicken soup and freezing that too. Perfect for when I'm sick and don't have the energy to cook.
My mom makes her own batches of homemade tomato sauce and jars it all. Enough to last like 6 months. So she always gives me a few. Nothing is faster than a boiling some pasta for 10 minutes and throwing some fresh sauce over it. Faster than driving over to a local fast food place, lol.
I grew up with an Italian mother that cooked everything from scratch and to this day is still one of the best cooks I've ever met. I'm not just saying that cause she's my mom either. All her friends & family are good cooks too and they all agree she by far is the best. Even when visiting Italy I still find that her recipes beat others.
I've never been a big restaurant person. I go more for the atmosphere. Homemade meals just taste so much better to me.
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