......Gift certificate to came eat with us free any Tuesday he wants!

SHAUN / LONDON / CHUCK / CHARLES / DAVE / BLAKE / STEVE / DON / TYLER / CONNOR / DENNIS / MARK / BRIEN / KATHLYNN / ALAINA / JENNA / LANE /

Some things you just can't explain

•  Didn't have a single middle school, high school, or college age girl helping last night and only 4 total. Alaina and Yenna are young girls who come with their dad, and Brien and Kathlynn are grown women.
• The first Tuesday of a month is usually a smaller crowd to come eat, mainly because some of our crowd get gov't checks and they get off the street for a little while. This means we might not see them during the first week of the month. Tonight however, we had at least 55 at the first stop. Go figure.

PORCUPINE MEATBALLS
BAKED ZITI
ORZO
PASTA SALAD
VEGGIE TRAY
FRUIT TRAY
CRAB DIP
DESSERT
FREEZE POPS
SWEET TEA / WATER

We also made lunch bags to go with CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICHES , chips and sweets.

What's a PORCUPINE MEATBALL? Well, you take 20 pounds of porcupine meat, add some rice.........
My bad. Couldn't help it.
It's hamburger, rice, a little onion, salt, pepper, and some water mixed up and rolled into 1 1/2 inch balls. Put them in a pan with a tomato sauce mixture that almost covers them, cook them covered at 350 for 45 minutes, then uncovered for 20.
My mom used to make them and it was one of my favorites. I think I've had them once in the last 30 years. My sister made them for me a couple of years ago, which I greatly appreciate. I figured even if i messed it up, it would still be decent, so I rolled the dice and we cooked them. Turned out very nice. We wound up running out at the end of the 2nd stop and started dishing out the BAKED ZITI. Made somewhere in the neighborhood of 280 meatballs.

Did a little detective work and discovered who the 10,000th visitor to the blog was. It was a Mr. Harold DeBoever of Hickory NC.        (Writing it like that was purely for my benefit, because it makes me laugh. He's my college roommate, we talk on the phone 2 or three times a week and he goes by "Butch". NOBODY calls him Harold.)
He called me last night and wanted to know what he'd won. I'm thinking about sending him a ........