Good time foods - what a great topic!

Spaghetti and Meatballs - every Sunday we went to my grandparents house (Dad's folks). The whole family gathered. Nonna and Nonno made the meal, and we all ate. Did this from when I was born through until Nonno died in 1985, about 37 years.

I'll echo baking Christmas cookies with my Mum, too! Oh I didn't think until I read the prior post, those were great times! I rolled things in powdered sugar, licked the beaters and scraped the bowls. I was SO much help, especially in those earlier years, that Mum often insisted Dad be home while she baked!

Italian Ice - Lemon or Almond flavors. We never had a/c in Dad's house, still don't! (He was against it when I insisted on adding it to my house here, when I bought it; and guess who is first to ask to put it on? Anyway . . . ) Hot summer nights, the extended family would gravitate to the grandparents house. Uncle Joe and later his son, my cousin, Guy, would go "down town" to the Italian shop and return with Italian Ice. A few times, I got to ride with Guy on his motorcycle! It was tricky trying to hold the cardboard cartons on the way home, I really wanted to hold ON, ha haa.