This past weekend was fall break. We were under the impression that the cafeteria did not open again till Wednesday morning. Grace and I decided that we would make dinner for everyone on Tuesday as our challenge cooking project.
We had our dishes and recipes picked out, but we got a rather late start. We spent more than an hour at the H.E.B. because we were completely indecisive and unfocused. Our original plan was to make the steak and potatoes dish we watched Julia Child make in class, but after we arrived at the store, we decided to buy cheaper chicken in place of the steak. After leaving the store, we had our meal plan finalized. On the menu for Tuesday's dinner: barbecue chicken, teriyaki chicken, Julia Child's Gratin potatoes, corn, garlic bread, and brownies. We did not start cooking until sometime after 5 pm.
Grace's special contribution to the dinner was the chicken. She began preparing and seasoning the chicken. My special part of the meal was the potatoes. We bought 6 potatoes, so we both got to work slicing them. I grated the Swiss cheese that goes on top of the potatoes and melted butter for them. I then went about layering, seasoning, and adding the Swiss cheese and butter to the potatoes as we had seen Julia Child do. The potatoes were placed in the oven for 30 minutes. We bought way more potatoes than we needed, so we will probably be snacking on those for awhile.
Together we made garlic bread and brownies and Shannon even made some corn for the dinner. The dinner tasted really good, perhaps that is because we had not eaten a proper meal all day and it was probably about 8 pm when we sat down to eat it.
We ended up with a lot of food leftover so Grace and I wondered through the halls looking for hungry boys. Eventually, all of the chicken, corn, bread, and brownies were gone. Try as we might, we could not get rid of all of the potatoes.
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