Hey grandma, what's for lunch?

**hadassahchana**[$] · #1 11-25-2007, 11:52 PM

Tomorrow I decided to take lunch in for the people at the AIDS committee. So far, I've made collards, pinto beans, stewed tomatoes and smothered pork chops. Tomorrow morning before I go to work, I'll make cornbread and rice. Yum! I just hope I can convince these nice Canadians that greens are too real food.

**Helen_B**[$] · #2 11-26-2007, 02:44 AM

Sounds delicious. Have fun! (Have you thought of catering Southern meals for cash money?)

**hadassahchana**[$] · #3 11-26-2007, 11:45 AM

Hey, great idea! I could include the rental of a defibrilator, make a little more money.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #4 11-26-2007, 02:14 PM

Um, sorry... collards are not food. Did I ever tell you about the New Year's I spent with G and his family? And I cried all day because I had nothing to eat?

**hadassahchana**[$] · #5 11-26-2007, 04:08 PM

Apparently you're alone in that thought. I assumed I would have a ton of leftovers. I made 20 pork chops, 12 cups of rice,m a huge pot of pinto beans, 4 bunches of collards and a large soup pot of tomatoes and bread. I brought home 1/2 cup of rice, the gravy from the chops, maybe two cups of greens, a sticky pot where the pintos used to be, and a spoon or so of tomatoes and bread. The only thing I had any amount of was one pan of cornbread- and that was leftover only because no one knew it was there.

Slick, I need to talk to you about how you manage portion control when feeding a crowd. Ok, there was a crowd of maybe 10. Still, I don't think I'm good at firuing out how much food to make. Since therew ere so few leftovers, my grandma would have been horrified that I did not make enough food.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #6 11-26-2007, 05:01 PM

OMG Cindy... that last bit had me howling! Your grandma raised you up right, so I'll forgive you forcing collards upon the masses.

I remember the first time I went to G's parents' house... they made four hamburgers... for FOUR PEOPLE. I had never seen anything like it, and was confused. I finally had to explain to G after we were married and started having family over... you count one hamburger per person. Then you figure most folks will have seconds... so that's 8. Some may want thirds, so figure 12. And then someone may just stop by and you CERTAINLY don't want them to go unfed... so you need about 24 hamburgers for four people. LMAO.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #7 11-26-2007, 05:02 PM

G's family and mine must be related.

**conradd** · #8 11-26-2007, 05:17 PM

The math discussion has been moved to the symposium.

Cindy, that lunch sounds wonderful. I love smothered pork chops - we did those last Friday - with mushrooms and onions, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, etc. I'll bet your board members were in heaven.

**slick4591**[$] · #9 11-26-2007, 06:04 PM

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hadassahchana said

Slick, I need to talk to you about how you manage portion control when feeding a crowd.

Four ounces per person should be plenty for your crowd. If you can't figure out what a four ounce portion is invest in some #8 dishers.

**Helen_B**[$] · #10 11-27-2007, 02:05 AM

I think these people had never seen good food before. But apparently they had experience at all-you-can-eat buffets, LOL.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #11 11-27-2007, 02:39 AM

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slick4591 said

Four ounces per person should be plenty for your crowd. If you can't figure out what a four ounce portion is invest in some #8 dishers.

Heck, those folks used that scoop to eat with!

And Pippa, where did you say G was raised? because I almost thought you said he was from the South, but that story about the hamburgers implies otherwise. I suspect that his family are really transplanted Yankees.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #12 11-27-2007, 07:59 AM

His MOTHER is from TEXAS. He was raised in Georgia.

Crazy, I know.

magenta321 · #13 11-27-2007, 08:16 AM

Well, wait. I'd make one cheeseburger (what is this hamburger of which you speak?) per person, but they'd be the big-ass Costco ones. And then I'd ask everyone if they'd like another. But most people won't even finish one.

And I'd have more than just cheeseburgers.

Does that make me a yank?

**pippadaisy**[$] · #14 11-27-2007, 08:19 AM

LOL. Yes. Most folks will be too polite to ask you to get up and actually make another one. If they are already there waiting on the plate, however...

magenta321 · #15 11-27-2007, 08:22 AM

But those things are GINORMOUS! Would you like a side of cow with your burger?

Truth be told, I don't think cheeseburgers reheat, and I'd not want to kill animals in vein. That's just me.

I'd have tons of food tho

**pippadaisy**[$] · #16 11-27-2007, 10:08 AM

EVERYTHING can be reheated. Even rice (trust me... we do it).

I can still remember my cousin coming in the next morning after his wedding reception crowing because there was one tiny plate of food left total from his buffet, and he "ordered the right amount." No, dude, you didn't, because people were trying to scrape the last corners of some dishes out of the pans on the first trip, and most everyone who went up for seconds was out of luck.

I'd much rather eat leftovers for a week than ever have that happen. Again, paranoid. And what Cindy said about that itty bitty scooper. It may be why we as a nation are obese, but my family would think that was a demitasse spoon.

**hadassahchana**[$] · #17 11-27-2007, 11:14 AM

One thing I forgot to mention was how various folks in our office ate. There is a Nigerian man who works there, and he had three helpings of the beans, tomatoes and collards. And kept exclaiming over how wonderful his lunch was. The Pakistani lady ate mostly rice and tomatoes along with cornbread. Of course the rest of them were pretty much meat and potatoes Canadians/Americans, and they just ate huge servings of everything, but mostly of the pork chops.

Ok, not as interseting to you all as I thought, it's my inner cultural anthropologist screaming to be let out.