written September 16, 2008
on sunday afternoon thomas and i hosted a dinner party at his apartment and invited about 8-9 JOs, mostly from essex. we got all the ingredients earlier in the day at the comm to make tzutsukakia (the little turds as we affectionately call them) except for mint. we went around a bit trying to find mint at the grocery stores, big department stores, and plant shops. no luck. scurrying back home, i started to make a yellow cake while thomas went to pick up chairs from some of our guests (thomas only had 4 in his apt).
After the cake I started on the ingredients for the turds. well, we decided to double the recipie, except that we forgot to buy double the meat, so thomas went back to the comm (he thought we agreed on triple portions, so we had a loooot of meat. how long does meat keep in the freezer?). i became an onion chopping pro~8 onions and an entire bulb of garlic later...we encountered a small problem. or problems i should say. i thought we bought parsley at the comm, turned out to be cilantro. also, thomas only had medium sized metal bowls, not a big one. so, for the first batch, i somehow fit 2lbs of meat, 3 chopped onions, half a bulb of garlic, a cup of breadcrubs (supposed to have 2, but didn:t buy enough) and eggs in the tiny medium-sized bowl. got onions everywhere as i tried to mix the ingredients. somehow managed to get it to come together enough to start forming the turds. wised up for the second batch, divided everything in half and put in two bowls. At this point Thomas brought two of the guests in early, so i set one to icing teh cake (dave) and the other (connie) to helping me mix and make the second batch of turds. they:re such good sports. in fact, dave got really into it and made some designs on the top of the cake!
finally got all food in oven as more ppl were arriving. thomas told everyone to show up at 1830 (i wanted 1900). finally got food served at 1930...while they were waiting, we set up thomas two tables in his *office* (removed the sliding doors from their tracks) and put the borrowed chairs around. thankfully, someone thought to bring chips and dip along. thomas conviced danny to make couscous in the microwave while dave (of the cake) then steamed veggies in the micro. dinner was loads of fun, lots of talking, laughing, and storytelling. thankfully, one of the guests had the brilliant idea of bringing paper plates and napkins so not too much cleaning up to do. another guest actually did the dishes for us! now we have tons of cans of soda and beer in the fridge. we made two trays of tzutsukakia and only consumed one, so sent most of the food home with everyone. thomas has pics on his camera, so hopefully he can send those out before they get underway (whenver that is at this point).
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