How to change your life with pasta.
For the last two hours, I have been rushing: cleaning up toys and clutter, vacuuming, dusting. Now the table is set with my great-grandmother's good china. My four-year-old daughter, Lucia, is busily folding paper napkins and placing them next to each of 10 plates. Between the candlesticks are a plate of sliced bread, a dish of olive oil, a small bowl of grated fresh Parmesan. My husband, Joe, bends over a pot of simmering sauce.
When the table is full of platters of pasta and steaming bowls of meatballs, we sit and raise our glasses:Joe and I have been doing this every Friday, give or take a few, for nine months. They have been extraordinary months. When we started hosting family dinners, then, meatballs were the obvious choice. We'd noticed that visiting friends often requested them; they seemed to us too pedestrian for guests, but our friends from other food cultures—Indian, Jewish, West African—adored them. So meatballs it was.So here's what Joe and I have decided to do, in my 33rd year, to make our lives happier: we are instituting a new tradition we call Friday Night Meatballs.
Those problems we'd set out to solve? It wasn't long before we realized our solution was working. Little Lucia began looking forward to Friday Night Meatballs as a weekly playdate. She was learning how to interact with adults, too: She took on the job of dishing the correct number of meatballs onto guests' plates. Joe and I saw more of our friends and strengthened our social networks as word began to spread.
We love the idea. There's something perfect about it. Why don't we get together like this more often?
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