Justice Barrett!
Yep, it happened. Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. And American hearts rejoice.
Now, on to the more serious issue: what the heck are the Barrett kids going to have for dinner tonight?
It's not easy to feed seven kids. That's a lot of shopping/chopping'/peeling/seasoning/ and hearing a mixed chorus of "This is great!" and "I hate this!" without wanting to toss at least one child out a window. And what if you really do mess up and dinner doesn't come out, erm, prefect?
I was one of six kids. My mother had a strategy for dealing with moment like this: She lied through her teeth. And because she was, after all, our mother, we believed her. For years.
It wasn't until I was a grownup that I was able to translate some of Mom's dinnertime platitudes.
"We're having a nice llight sauce tonight!" I ran out of grocery money and added about a gallon of water to a jar of Ragu.
"Open-faced sandwiches tonight!" There were only five pieces of bread left.
"I got the recipe from a very good cook!" If it's inedible blame somebody else.
There was an p side to my mother's cooking, though. When I went away to college I thought the food wasn't just good, I thought it was fantastic. My classmates just assumed I was a little slow.
Which, given how long I fell for that "nice light sauce"line, I probably was.
She seems pretty smart, I bet she's figured out the "have kids cook one night a week" trick. My mom started it when we were 11, 12 and 13, and other than having to do things like forbid me from experimenting with cajun recipes, telling my sister she had to put SOMETHING in the sauce when she made spaghetti, and telling my brother that ramen was not dinner, it went well!
ReplyDelete(Ever hear that old western song about 'jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filet gumbo"? Well, I thought it sounded good, and I found a recipe online... and I didn't realize that cajun seasoning has rather more of a punch than garlic salt....)
The good stuff sure does!
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