need help already

[kphiker]

happy new year to all! i think this is going to be a good year and i am looking forward to it with enthusiasm.

my first challenge happens next week. at work, the group i'm part of (5 of us right now) have decided to have a monthly lunch-with-theme. so next week we're going to do italian.

i've never liked to cook (i'd rather be reading or doing

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[vyncentvega]

Hm, I don't make Italian food, either!

Maybe...gnocchi? All I remember from the food in Italy was that they had veal a lot, but maybe that was just the hotel where I was staying.

The cookbook of mine that I like is published by Parragon-they have an Italian food cookbook. Maybe if you Search Inside on Amazon and look at the index, you'd get some ideas? You should also be able to use Search Inside to see the pages of the things in the index, but I think if you do it a lot of times it gets upset. Still, worth a shot maybe. Italian omelet, perhaps?

[kphiker]

i spent some time online today and found several really great-sounding soups. i'm not sure what i'll end up doing, but i'll check out your suggestion. and i suppose i could deign to look at the multitude of cookbooks i have on my shelves. sigh .. so lazy ....

[furzicle]

Sorry, Italian is low on my list, too. I'll think over some alternatives.

Of course artichokes are good, and Minestrone is nearly always satisfying.

[kphiker]

i was looking at several soup recipes that sounded interesting. if i decide to fix one of them, i'll post the recipe.

i love garlic, but there must be some spice i don't care for which goes in italian because i've just never really been fond of it.