family dinner

When I was at U of O I lived in a giant old house with three other girls. We spent a lot of weekends cooking huge messy meals and feeding an assortment of boyfriends (including Joel) and other hangers-on. I lived with (the other) Melissa, who was the mastermind behind these dinners. When she comes to town now, we re-live the old days drinking copious amounts of wine while putting together a late-night meal.

Last night we made green chili corn chowder. (OK, I'll honest, my major contribution to the meal was in the area of wine drinking.) It was a much needed comfort meal for all of us: I was gearing up for a long business trip to MT this week, Rohanna was exhausted from a long weekend getting our littlest sister off to Australia, Jess starts chemo this morning, and Melis is heading north to deal with some family drama. The soup, and everything that went into making it together, was therapeutic for us all.
The little girls (Lucy and Lulu) helped by being extremely cute.