On Another Note

While I'm drafting a post, I'm also cooking some of my mother's Christmas manicotti and her holiday meat gravy. If you have never eaten this, you are missing out on something otherworldly. The manicotti, light, perfection; the meat gravy, bursting with sausage, pepperoni, spare ribs, plain meat (whatever that is), sublime. I think if I can learn to make this (after years of assisting, you'd think I could by now), my family would be complete.