Meatball Surprise Mom is away.
Not like that one time fancy schmancy mozzarella with tomatoes from BJs unusual but usually some concoction something on the stove from scratch from what was in the fridge
No I remember Meatball Surprise little Jason little Jen
Pancakes log cabin syrup big glasses tinted lens steaming up with fog
laughing rather snorting rather smiling rather some blend
a beer on the back porch only when Uncle Steve’s in town only once a year maybe every other year
rootbeer or Pepsi Free from the fridge from the door in the fridge no don’t remember on the island there on Garwood Drive next to a plate of egg noodles with cottage cheese and sour cream and Wonder Bread and that was being Jewish I think
lunch on Saturday after cartoons after you went to the market but before soccer or after i don’t know there in the middle when it was sunny on the deck
Not like Wednesday when it was 5:30 and you were making green salad green iceberg lettuce green cucumbers green peppers Italian dressing French from scratch one time that didn’t work was yucky was too red not yellow or orange enough on the island
hamburgers on the grill but never cheeseburgers never with cheese not with Kraft American cheese in plastic never ever even though that’s what mom wanted and me too probably because hamburgers with bubbles on the top are gross
never parmesean on meatballs not like at Bubbi’s house not because it wasn’t kosher like you said but because you didn’t like the smell put the green container back in the spice cabinet now almost yelling but not
Flounder
But never shrimp
Never ever coconut shrimp except that one time at a chinese restaurant but i wasn’t there that’s just a story I think mom could tell or Uncle Harvey and Aunt Iris but not me I wasn’t there when your throat almost closed up but for years i didn’t eat shrimp God Forbid
Not because it wasn’t kosher
Fake poop but that’s for another time
Food food food this time that’s where we’re going
Never would’ve guessed it but it’s there on the top of a birthday cake 66 candles
but 39 years of food
funny i would’ve said beach boys beatles singing in the car bad smells bad jokes roll the window down the top down but no there’s
fried matzoh
syrup or salt or jelly perhaps, too, Grape Welch’s the flavor of 6 7 8 9 10
Passover
Pesach
Sandwiches on white bread
but what was in the middle
Yellow mustard for sure
but also what
Turkey? Bologna? Not ham, never ham
The only ham was you
on stage
with a frying pan.
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Meatball Surprise Recipe
Ingredients
- Egg Noodles
- Ground Meat
- Red Sauce from a Jar (Preferably Ragu)
- Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Instructions
Cook it all up regular like and mix it together in a pan and eat it up
