Your sis sounds like me.

Those antibacterial soaps are good for the moment - but the problem is - after using them for a length of time they don't work anymore.

Please don't think I am paranoid - I'm not - but if you really think about it - look at what you touch - your purse and car keys, your cell phone, wallet, and anything else that goes into your purse. Then you touch your steering wheel and the handles of the car. And the gas pumps when you pump your own. the pen you sign with if you use a credit card. The receipts given to you. The products in the stores and supermarkets. The counters and cash register area. The candy in the candy lane. The bottle of juice, pop or water to drink on the way home. The handles on the doors in the smaller stores. All those food items you can touch! And so can everyone else. And I do have to say "thanks" to all those idiots that couch and sneeze all over everything. I won't go on - I think you got the picture.

Oh I can go on - but there is bacteria all over the place. I will not go into a restaurant for a thing - not with everyone being sick. I won't even go to a drive though. And I avoid pre-baked food items (breads and rolls) that are baked in the stores. I don't even order anything from the deli counter - I go to the restaurant supply house and buy it whole; slice it myself.

I'm taking vitamins and I am drinking juice and tons of tea with lemon and honey. I think that is why I'm not super sick - just almost super sick. LOL

As far as the braciole goes - if you want a good meat mixture - try a basic meatloaf/meatball recipe. You don't want to take away from the flavors. and you don't need to buy a thin steak and pay $1.00 more/lb. Pound your own steak!

I was watching something on tv the other day and they were talking about how dirty stores were that had the bread bins where you use the tongs to get out your bread.
They even found broken off fake fingernails in the bottom of those bread bins. Nasty!
They had a hidden camera and most people just used their bare hands. The same thing with the candy bins. They showed how people would sneeze into their hands or wipe their nose and then handle 6-7 different heads of lettuce before buying one. Makes me shiver. Yuck. I wash produce several times when I bring it home.

So when I make braciole I can use my favorite meatball recipe for the filling? I will try that for this Sunday supper. If I dont mess it up I will put up a picture lol. If I can get the recipe down it would make a nice thing to do for Christmas.

Your favorite meatball recipe will work well. Pound your round steak to thin it and lay your meatball filling on top to within an inch of the edges; tuck and roll; hog tie with your kitchen twine and cook in a bit of olive oil and garlic until cooked through. Transfer to your sauce pot (I always make the braciole and meatballs before I start my sauce - sauce is already a cooked product and doesn't need to cook all day) and it will flabor your sauce as well.

I'm quite sure you'll do fine. The twine thing is the worst part of it all.

I will definately try the braciole this Sunday. Thanks.

I don't think you need help at all. If we could see what goes on behind closed doors I doubt any of us we eat out at a restaurant or buy premade food ever again. I bought those prepacked little cups of jello pudding off the shelf years ago at one of the stores here in town. When I got it home and took off the cardboard package it was full of rodent droppings.