Passing The Taste Test

Last Tuesday evening at Mutual the YM put on a joint activity entitled "Your Momma don't live here any more." Interesting title, and actually it was an interesting activity. To begin with they had some relay races performing tasks that the youth will have to do once they leave home, i.e.: ironing, making a bed, and cleaning bathrooms. The last task was a contest to make the best grilled cheese sandwich. We leaders had brought a variety of items for making the sandwiches like different kinds of bread, different kinds of cheeses, bacon, mac & cheese, hot dogs, ham, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. We got pretty creative with our sandwiches. One young man deep fried his, recoatted it with batter, and then deep fried it again. I didn't get to taste that one...I think he and his buddy ate it all by themselves. We had some interesting sandwiches, but the winning prize (actually there was no prize) went to ME! I made it the Stott way...with strawberry jam on top using sourdough bread, ham slice, and cheddar cheese. No judges were assigned to pick a winner, but the youth just commented on their favorite and mine won overwhelmingly. Before anyone tasted it they thought it was weird to put jam on top but everyone wanted to check it out. I explained that when I married Alan he wanted strawberry jam on his sandwiches so we just evolved to always doing it that way. Now grilled cheese sandwiches seem to plain to me without it. I think this story would make my mother-in-law proud! It definitely passed the youth taste test.