How to Build a Reputation
This entry was posted on 10/10/2009 10:34 AM and is filed under Family Fun.
I'm afraid that Josie's volleyball team mates have gotten the wrong impression of how Josie lives.
About two weeks ago, most of them were over here on a Saturday morning. It was Soccer Saturday, which means the high school teams were playing all day at the field across the street from my house and the field by school. So the volleyball team camped out here all day.
This was while Tyler was in town with his friend, Megan. We had had a big dinner for everyone, including many many pans of brownies and bars.
When the vb girls got here early Saturday morning, the kitchen table still held a pan of crispy bars, a half pan of brownies and a pan of chocolate chip bars. Several of the girls stopped dead in their tracks, looking at the table.
"I heard about this," one of them finally breathed. "But I didn't think it was true."
They scarfed brownies for breakfast.
Then, last Monday, we hosted the team pre-game pasta dinner. I made Zack's pasta because it's my favorite and it's the easiest thing in the world. I started dinner at 6:10 and had fed eleven girls dinner at 6:40. The half an hour included taking fifteen minutes to drive to school and pick up six girls and bringing them over here.
Zack is a genius, who put together a very simple recipe; chorizo or anduille sausage, chunked up and fried, add diced tomatoes and a jar of alfredo sauce, served over penne pasta. It's cheap and takes about ten minutes from idea to eating. It tastes very much like Emeril Legasse's NNO pasta, which has 13 ingredients, including Emeril's creole seasoning, which has eight ingredients, and takes about two hours, what with all the chopping. Did I mention that Zack is a genius?
I served it with baguettes and salad. I made a huge pot and the girls practically licked it clean. For dessert, I pulled out the last pan of crispy bars that was still in the back fridge after that earlier party.
"I want to live here," one of Josie's team mates said to me. "You have the best food!"
And they don't even know about the stash of nut goodies in the freezer!
On second thought, maybe they have a perfectly accurate idea of how we live around here.
