Besides the roast chicken meal for the last dinner, I got really lucky as my sister-in-law, Cio, made up three different desserts to enjoy. She works at a restaurant where she is always learning new recipes, and fortunately for us, we got to taste her practice. A layered cookie cake, a chocolate pudding, and a coconut cream mousse - these names do not do them justice, because American mousse and pudding is very different and bland by comparison.
While the women folk chattered about the beauty of these desserts and how to make them, my nephew Toni and I were ready to eat. We'll let them talk as much as they want, it leaves all the more for us to eat. It was one of the few nights to have the entire family together to talk and eat and enjoy one an others company, accompanied by great jokes, some verbal spats, but ultimately everything that makes up a family. But just like the food we were eating, the family is like a recipe with many ingredients to give it body, make it sweet, and finally throw in a few nuts.
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