P.A.T's Equation

Linda and I tried to hook up this weekend at the Grillin' for Life BBQ contest in Madison, MS but I just had too many irons in the fire. I just don't think the school year should start before Labor Day is even close to being here, it is WAY too firecracker HOT in Mississippi to be buying school shoes, uniforms, notebooks, etc. SOOO....I spent the weekend cleaning house, throwing out old stuff and getting the slate clean for the new semester.

At least on Saturday night I got to have a little F.U.N at P.A.T's house. P.A.T is our dear friend that is crazy as a loon, fun as all get out, can drink us under the table, keeps us all together when there is a crisis, nurtures all the kids, lines out the husbands, you know "that Friend".......

P.A.T. is also the one who opens up her house and patio and has the WHOLE HEE HAW GANG over to party, eat, socialize, eat, talk, eat, drink some more, eat. This week I'm giving her equation for a Saturday night social.

1st step is she invites EVERYBODY..........young and old, blind cripple or crazy from eight to eighty (if Uncle Jack is there we have a 90yr old).

At left is my mom, The Big "O" (86) and Anna Beth (6) The Baby Girl. We had everyone in between to come for drinks and hor devours'. Tacy brought some boiled shrimp to start us off

....that was Step 2.... Drinks & hor devours' ......

Step 3: P.A.T. has learned the best and economic way to feed the brood is with a whole beef tenderloin. The Belle's marinate and trim the meat, we get the guys to crank up the grill, sear it up good, wrap in foil and cook until thickest side is rare. Throw in salad, green bean casserole, rolls, and I whipped up hash brown potato casserole that would make you "slap yo mamma", though no one did, or Big "O" would have had a hissy fit right then and there...... The meat was cooked to perfection and no one left P.A.T.s hungry.....so remember

Friends + Food + Drink + P.A.T = F.U.N.................