Progressive Dinner for Thirty Teenagers
You know when your church’s youth leader asks a question like, “Are you going to be in town on Sunday night?” that you are about to really step in it. 
On Sunday evening, our church youth group was having a progressive dinner. For anyone who has never heard of that, it is when you gather a whole bunch of kids and a few drivers, and you take these teens from one house to another. At each house, they are served one course of a meal. First they get a salad, then they are packed into vehicles, driven to the next victim’s home, and are given an appetizer. You can do this for as many courses as you can find victims.
On Friday, I was asked to serve the main course. (I’m gaining a reputation at our church as a cook and looked like a good candidate, I guess.) Also, we live close to our church, which makes us a convenient stop. And, truthfully, since I have small children, too, it is nice for me to be able to serve others in a capacity that doesn’t require me to leave my home.
So I bought three boxes of pasta, a very large can of tomatoes, tomato paste, mushroom soup, and mozzerella cheese. Click here for the small-version of the recipe I used.
It really was fun, packing thirty (that’s a guess) teenagers in my house for twenty minutes and seeing how much food they can eat in that amount of time. When they left it was suddenly very, very quiet. This was very ironic because we had been telling our two youngest all day that they were too loud.
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