Bunco is at my house tomorrow night. It's my turn to stress over what to serve for dinner and to attempt to make my house look as if someone actually designed the layout of furniture and as if no kids live here. (-:
So, my menu is going to be Chicken Broccoli Braid (large square of dough with a chicken, broccoli, cheese, bell pepper, mayonnaise, garlic mixture in the middle and strips of the dough pulled up and sort of braided on top making a sort of meat-stuffed pastry with almond slivers on top), Baked Beans, Fluffy Fruit Salad (fruit cocktail, pineapple, nuts, marshmallows in a pudding and cool whip sauce) and Strawberry Shortcake. It sounds really yummy to me. Whatcha think? Anyway, one of the hard parts of cooking for Bunco are the limits determined by the other Bunco players. One woman is very anti-onion, and there are some other little quirks you have to follow when preparing a Bunco meal. The bonus of cooking for Bunco is that I can cook the Chicken Broccoli Braid; my husband does not care for it because he one time ate it just before getting sick and threw it up repeatedly. Understandably, that turned him off the meal, so I can only make it VERY RARELY or when he's going to be gone for a board meeting or something.
On to the house. For days, I've been reorganizing the first floor of the house. Not cleaning. I'll do that last minute tomorrow, and it won't need to be super-thorough. Just sweeping and cleaning the downstairs bathroom. But the reorganizing to get rid of the stacks of unresolved mail, coupons, ads, etc. that insist on building up on surfaces in the kitchen. Reorganizing to find homes for all the DVDs and CDs purchased over the last few months that are all stacked randomly around the entertainment center. I'll deal with the toys set for weeks on the window seat so that it looks like we actually planned their storage place. Those are the types of cleaning I have to attack this weekend before Bunco so that my house is presentable.
Every once in a while it is good to host a party at your home just to kick yourself in the butt and throw out the papers you really don't need, select toys to put into storage for the next child, box up the old videos no one watches to give to the church yard sale.
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I just had this urge to design a game called Super Turbo Bunjie Bunco. Just because the words flow so well.
In other news, you reminded me of another dish that my mother makes which I like. It's called broccoli chicken. It consists primarily of broccoli and chicken with some sort of soup in it. Cream of something. I don't think it's mushroom. I don't really know for sure though. But as far as I know, that's primarily all it is. Mom likes it because it looks like a fancy dish and tastes really good and is an absolute figurative piece of cake to make. (Let's see - dump all this stuff in an electric skillet...turn on...wait. Yup, that's doable.) She serves it with white rice (another reason I like the dish) and sometimes biscuits or rolls maybe? I don't rightly remember...college drives so much out of your mind. I...I don't even know if I remember what she looks like anymore. It's been so long since I've seen her.
Okay, that's pushing it a bit far. I actually do remember what she looks like. She looks like the half of me that doesn't look like my dad (whatever that means).
Also, you mentioned a fruit salad concoction thing that reminded me of a fruit salad that we make which I like. (It's also pretty easy to make). Mom didn't really have a specific name for it when she made it ("fruit salad" is too generic), so I got to give it its moniker. It is now and forever "ugly salad." That is because it is the most unbelievably ugly salad you've ever seen. It looks a bit like it's already been partially digested and then regurgitated. However, I don't mind telling people this because if it makes them decide not to eat it....MORE FOR ME! It's so far the only fruit salad I've ever actually liked because most fruit salads start to not be good after they've been exposed to the air for about 45 seconds.
I'll have to get that recipe for you too. Basically it's a bunch of canned fruits (peaches, apricots, pineapple, and I'm pretty sure at least one other that doesn't come to mind), frozen strawberries (in a bag), and vanilla Jell-O pudding mix thrown together into a bowl, stirred until the pudding mix is mixed in, then stuck in a fridge for a while. Mmmmmmm, good stuff.
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