Now that is a compliment expatgirl.

My brother once said that he likes the way I cooked my spaghetti instead of our mother's. (and in front of our mother too!)

LOL, Clara,

What a compliment and it sounds like that he is still alive despite his compliment

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nothing would give me greater pleasure than for my children (grown now) to exceed me in the culinary fields

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so your Mom must have inspired him to new heights!!!! Lucky Mom!!! And you can come over and cook spaghetti anytime

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Thanks!!!!

A first attempt at making Chicken Ala Kiev actually turned out quite well gauging from the responses I got from the friends over for the Sunday lunch.

Could be better, not bad, great, awesome dude, etc. One even said "if you had given us less margaritas and more food, maybe I could actually taste it!"

The icing on the cake for me was when the wife of a very dear friend says "you wanna marry me? i'll dump your friend right now!"

Still single though, but have now ended up feeding them at least once a week!

Gotta love this life.