Somebody Has to Cook.

Last week I made dinner for the “big house” crew. That’s The Parker family, the Citizen family, and my family. 14 people total. If you don’t already know (where the heck have you been?), we all live together (on purpose), in a ginormous, 6,ooo+ square foot house.

Each week one family is assigned to cook for everyone. Cheryl generously takes everyone’s turn, and does it every week when she can. She has a new gig that makes it hard to do it every single day though, so the remaining two families have to pick up the slack. Well it was technically the Linford family’s turn to go, and by Linford family I mean Marie. Oh, but have you already forgotten? Marie has that sweet new gig at Pulte, and doesn’t even get home before dinner starts sometimes. That’s where I come in.

I’ve been watching ludicrous amounts of the Food Network, since Marie started being the bacon bringer homer, so I’ve been printing recipes and salivating over all of the yummy stuff that they make on those cooking shows, and last week I gave it a shot. I made four dishes: Pasta Pomodorini, Tomato Avocado and Red Onion salad, Olive Oil Braised ‘Taters, and Grilled Asparagus, and all it took me to make it all was about two and a half hours.

I liked it all, except for the asparagus, which I burned. Most everyone said it was pretty good, which I appreciate even if they were lying (I’m not saying they lied. I’m just saying that I appreciate the compliments even if they did). Hopefully next time I make any of those dishes I’ll make them better now that I’m a seasoned veteran.