Italian Cuisine

I grew up in a very italian household. Our dinners always consisted of some type of really good pasta and meat. But since ive been in college, I havent had anyone make those wonderfully delicious dinners for me, and most of the time I dont have time to cook a meal like such. So, while grocery shopping on friday afternoon, I decided that i was going to make a delicious italian meal for my roommates and myself on saturday. I bought some ravioli and tortellini, along with ingredients to make my moms meatballs, and some garlic bread. I chose these items because they werent as expensive as buying ingredients for lasagna or something more tedious to make. Ravioli are simple to make, and i have made meatballs many times before so that was easy. I normally make garlic bread from scratch but it was on sale for very cheap so i chose to buy it.

As i can see from my selection of this meal, my culture growing up had a lot to do with it. Also that amount of money that i could spend was limited becuase of the limited amount of funds that i have. I probably would have chose something mmore expensive to make like manicotti, or lasagna, but i couldnt afford them. I also would have bought the best ingredients but i couldnt afford them either.