I am beginning to wonder if my husband really is part Italian
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
May 5, 2017 10:41am CST
My husband's father was Russian. His mother was 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Italian. I always say my husband's appetite is 100 percent Italian - he loves Italian food and would eat it three times a day if he could.
Well, now he has me wondering big time if there is really any Italian in him. I bought corn-on-the-cob at the grocery store this morning. He said, what else are we having with the corn and I told him chicken. I said since it's so raw out I would cook the chicken inside.
I looked in my air fryer cookbook and found a recipe for Parmesan Chicken Fingers. I can't eat cheese, so I said I could leave the cheese off of mine. To which he replied, "Don't you use mozzarella for that?"
No - it's called Parmesan Chicken Fingers not Mozzarella Chicken Fingers!
Photo is mine.
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@celticeagle (190021)
• Boise, Idaho
5 May 17
I dislike Italian food. My favorites are Mexican and Chinese.
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@celticeagle (190021)
• Boise, Idaho
6 May 17
@AbbyGreenhill ......I love tamales and such. Stuffed with seafood.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I have never had Mexican ..It isn't my thing and I don't eat italian either.
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@LeaPea2417 (40061)
• Toccoa, Georgia
5 May 17
That does sound like a tasty dish.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I did his with cheese and mine w/o and it was very good
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@dodo19 (48205)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
5 May 17
@AbbyGreenhill If that's the case, then I can understand why he made the suggestion. But it's Parmesan chicken, not Mozarella chicken.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
He uses that cheese a lot- on pizza, etc.
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@LadyDuck (502886)
• Italy
5 May 17
@AbbyGreenhill So chicken parm has mozzarella on top? I did not know.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
@LadyDuck Yes...and he loves that- but it is messy to make - you have to fry the chicken. Anyway, I don't think he really 'heard' what said since he never does!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I don't know enough about northern or southern Italy - I a not Italian and cheese is my enemy!! I think he 'assumed' I was going to make chicken parm for him, which has mozz on top.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I prefer him to shut up while he eats or the food would get sprayed across the room LOL!
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@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
5 May 17
Lol, that recipe sounds interesting. I have wanted an air fryer, but we don't have the counter space for one right now. But I have been eyeing them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I don't keep mine on the counter, it's put away until time to use it. I won't be w/o mine now...I love it.
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
5 May 17
What is an air fryer? It seems to me that you don´t have to have some italian blood to like italian food. Although I wouldn´t really know because I´m 1/4 italian.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
An air fryer is a machine that cooks food like a convection oven does - you can air fry food using just a small amount of oil. Of course you don't have to be Italian to like Italian food - just like you don't have to be American to like apple pie.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
@marguicha it is not an oven. It is a table top unit
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
Or a senior moment ....But he would never admit that!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 May 17
I am amused, and now hungry, that does sound good. Was it?
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 May 17
Excellent - I made mine first, then added the cheese to the bread crumbs for his - he liked it and he is to a huge chicken fan!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
8 May 17
@AbbyGreenhill I have been pondering getting the stuff to make chicken salad, I am a fan of chicken too
@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
5 May 17
So if Hubby is half Russian, one eighth Italian and one eighth Irish, what is the remaining quarter?!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
1/2 Russian, 1/4 Italian 1/4 Irish equals 100 percent
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
@Lupita234 4 is not many at all. I probably have 5 or 6 or 7.
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 17
Funny! Tony seems to call cheese by the dishes or something other than its name, stinky cheese = parmesan, Mozzarella = pizza cheese, Swiss is holey cheese. He has no idea that I use other cheese at times.
I have just about stopped eating cheese, I am headed back to vegan.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 May 17
I don't eat cheese since I can't digest it - no other reason. I will always not be vegan. I find all cheese to be stinky.
@ranan1989 (385)
•
5 May 17
@AbbyGreenhill nice bonding between both of you...fraught with love and great understanding 
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@donnagerhart (1)
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16 Jun 17
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@JudyEv (382658)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 May 17
Maybe you could encourage him to do some Italian cooking and give you a spell.
