*******MINESTRONE*******

[LeftyFingerPop]

[Heidi]

1. Please remove me from the *******MINESTRONE******* list!!!

I used to like it, but I'm afraid my neighbors have ruined it for me. I swear, you can't walk through our village after 10 a.m. without smelling veggies cooking in tomatoes and boullion for lunch -- and I'm not kiddin'. It's a smell that kinda clings to you. :shudder:

Nice copycat.

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. I hear ya....

I don't like it that much myself....

[Lil Missy]

5. You need my special spaghetti sauce, a la Lil Missy.

Not for vegetarians.

I put short ribs, hamburger, pork chops, sometimes sausage, and let it simmer all day till the sauce turns dark and the meat falls off the bones.

Takes a BIG POT to get everything in it, so I usually have to freeze some.

[Heidi]

8. I'm not a vegetarian (not a very good one, anyway),

but I think I could enjoy dinner with you without _quite_ that much meat, dah-ling. :hug:

:*

[Lil Missy]

9. No worries. With all the sauce and buried in spaghetti noodles, it's not so much meat.

[HopeHoops]

2. Hmm. Looks suspiciously like animal-based broth there.

Veggie broth is great, but animal broth, well, :puke:

[Heidi]

4. I think you're seeing the pale after-affect of boiled tomatoes there.

But I'm with ya on the "animal broth" thing in general. :skeeve:

[HopeHoops]

6. Maybe, but those look like grease bubbles to me. Suspicious.

:yoiks:

[Heidi]

7. Ewwwwwwwwwww.

Surely you're not referring to that waxy sort of soup grease that rings a bowl and can coat the roof of one's mouth for days. :hurl:

[HopeHoops]

11. What an excellent description!

:rofl:

[Lil Missy]

10. Nix the soup, LFP. It's gross.