ABOUT ME
Sunday Night Dinners were a staple in my life growing up. In 2007, we had snow in Texas that shut down school for nearly a week. So, that Sunday night my mom invited our neighbors over for dinner with their kids since none of us had school the next day. That night, they came down the street all bundled up and we enjoyed a warm meal together in each other’s company. And…the rest is history. Sunday nights after that were spoken for. The question was no longer if we were having dinner together on Sundays, but where we were having dinner together on Sundays.
Those Sunday Night Dinners were where my love for food first started. Food brought us together. We were an eclectic group – Thai, Iranian, Jewish, Christian, Northerners, Southerners and so much more – and that was part of what made it so special. Because no matter our background, we came together around that table and we shared life together. We talked and we fought, we laughed and we cried, and over the years our two families became like one.
When all of us kids went off to college, the parents would FaceTime us from the Sunday Night Dinner table. When we came home, we’d stay late on a weekend just to be there. When I got married, my husband and I started our own version of Sunday Night Dinner. We would get as many people in our rented garage apartment as we could. It had slanted walls and a smoke alarm that sounded if you so much as looked at the oven. We had no dining room table, no nice grocery stores around, no fancy cooking equipment (in fact, our stove top didn’t work so I sautéed everything in the bottom of an instant pot!). But, we were together.
Fast forward to now, and our Sunday Night Dinner crew has evolved and changed over the years. Sometimes we are a Tuesday Night Dinner crew. Some nights there are fourteen of us, and other nights there are three of us. You’ll find us piled on the floor of a tiny apartment or spread out around a twelve-seater table depending on the night and who’s hosting. And each time, it is really special. It is a gift that I think everyone should have.
And that’s why I started Together on Sundays.
I want to put tools in your hands to help you bring your people together. Whether it’s for two or twenty, here, you’ll find everything you need to help you bring your people Together on Sundays. I hope this will be your “one stop shop” to make hosting easy – a place where you can find good food, good drinks, and good music.
It doesn’t have to be Sundays and it doesn’t have to be perfect. You can serve on paper plates and used mix and match cups. If you burn the food, you can laugh about it, order a pizza, and try again next time. Been there, done that! I am still learning. But I’m learning by doing. I hope you’ll learn and do it with me, too.