After worship today, the youth board at Grace hosted a mother’s day buffet. It was very well received and it’s figured that we fed 200 people. That’s a great turn-out! The menu included meatballs and ham, potatoes, gravy, veggies, salads, bread and dessert. I heard many people say that the plates were not big enough!
They should have come back for more because there were leftovers. Bowls of salads. Roasters of meatballs. Pans of desserts. The board had planned for 200 to attend … but perhaps our idea of how much each of those 200 people would eat was a bit … off. Leftovers were packaged up and doled out to those who helped work and plan the meal. This is what I came home with:
Butter and crushed saltines. There were probably 12 take-out containers of butter on the counter and four and a half boxes of crushed saltine crackers. The crackers had – now prematurely – been crushed to make meatballs; had they not been already crushed, we could have returned them to the store but no luck.
I took the butter and the saltines with a challenge – using both ingredients, create a dessert for staff meeting on Tuesday. I accepted the challenge – really, I created it for myself but it was endorsed by my coworkers – and now I am accepting ideas/suggestions from you. A dessert including butter and crushed saltines … it’s on.
It kind of reminds me when Monica takes a job creating Thanksgiving recipes for mockolate … but not quite as severe. “This is what evil must taste like!”
(I’ve glanced at my favorite recipe website, allrecipes.com, and realize that this isn’t much of a challenge at all. With this recipe, what more is there to even think about? How delicious would this taste with coffee at 10am? And if I could make them into ball form, a la hamballs, oh how I would impress my coworkers. Golden.)
there's no place like gnome. 
Do not mock the salmon loaf! We make it all the time. Certainly not with coffee at 10am… but it makes a tasty, filling supper for sure. And, to appease Carter, we do call it "fishy meatballs" once it's cut up on his plate. We'll call you over next time we make it. How about you make them saltine toffee instead?
what else do you need besides butter and crackers? just mash them together… the chunkier the butter, the better!(i just threw up in my mouth a bit).