I'm going to backtrack to May a bit here.Three weeks ago we had a dozen teenagers down at Surfside to paint our house. I'm talking about 19-year old kids. We first approached them about doing this while they were on Spring Break, so we'd been thinking about this for a while. We've been feeding most of these chaps for years, and pretty much knew what they'd like. We developed a menu based on what we had in the freezers and pantry, and what (we thought) would be pretty easy to fix, yet not be fast-food, or what they'd been eating at the college cafeterias. Alice had all the recipes laid out and shopping lists made. The kids took most of the meats down with them on Wednesday afternoon, but Alice still had to go shopping almost every day, especially for fruits, vegetables, juices and milk. I was supervising the painting, and didn't really get to see much of the cooking. That's pretty much all that Alice did every day: Go to Piggly Wiggly, the Seafood Market, and Walmart, and then come back and cook!
Top Sirloin Rare Roast
Athena Cantalope
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Smithfield City Ham
Apple Cranberry Casserole
Herb Roasted Turkey Breast
Marinated Carrot Salad
Roasted Green Beans
Spinach Salad
Oranges
Apples
Grapes
Bananas
Frogmore Stew
Roasted Greek Potatoes
Steak Tacos w/ Marinated Cilantro Slaw
Whole Grain Pancakes
Benton’s Bacon
Country Sausage
Scrambled Eggs
Stone Ground Grits
Buttermilk Biscuits
Country Ham
Cheddar & Scallion Biscuits.
Bratwurst & Semmel Rolls
Brioche Rolls
Butter Beans
Lasagna
Roasted Pork Loin & Brown Rice
French Toast
Home Made Cheese Bread
Lemon Bars
Home Made Ice Cream
They also consumed uncountable gallons of OJ, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Pineapple Juice, Milk, Café Du Monde Coffee, V-8 Fusion, Turkish Coffee, and Fru-fru Drink! They used 8 ladders, 30 Gallons of paint, 20+ paint brushes and rollers, 3 bottles of SPF 50 Sunscreen! There were no injuries, no sunburns, and the house looks great!
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