Not every Sunday has to consist of following other people’s recipes and spending hours executing directions. In fact, some of the best time spent with my family doesn’t include instructions or guidelines of any type. The best kind of dinner is one spent outside on the back patio, surrounded by my grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, and cousins. Together, we all enjoy the last of the warm evenings until winter makes it too cold to play and eat outside.
It seems as though in my family, hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill are always the food to fall back on when nobody feels like cooking anything else. That’s not to say that they are any less delicious than a fancy meal, because they aren’t; they are staples of carefree evenings spent leisurely sitting outside and laughing with family. This Sunday, my mom cooked her famous baked beans which include an entire pound of ground beef, a cup of bourbon, and maple syrup. My little sister has been working on her Deviled eggs recipe for quite some time now, and you could really tell that it was finally coming together. After the men pull the meat off of the grill, we all gather together at the rod iron tables to enjoy our simple Sunday meal together, and trust me, it’s just as memorable as the rest.
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