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BY SARA FOUGERE · PHOTOS BY L.G. PATTERSON
n 2012 my son Drew began his
with me in my commercial kitchen, and
these days! I want to invite them all over
high school football career as a
we fed the entire Rock Bridge team. It
and make many casserole dishes full of
Rock Bridge Bruin, and I began my
was raucous, and sometimes stressful, but
Beef Lombardi like we have so many
career as a football mom. For the
it warmed my heart to watch my boys,
times before. I have yet to find a kid
past nine autumns, from Drew through
and their friends, with plates full of pasta
who doesn't love this mash up of sort-
Grant and on to Luke, there has been a
bakes, laughing around communal tables.
of spaghetti, sort-of goulash and even
And now it's almost over. When Luke
sort-of stroganoff. The secret really is
Fougere boy among the “Boys of Fall.” And I have loved every minute of it! I love football. I love the games, the fans, the band, watching my friends' daughters
takes the field this fall it will be his last
the sour creamed noodles, and the spicy
year of high school. It will be my last year
beef which together make for a creamy,
as a football mom.
delicious bowl of all-together goodness.
who cheered or danced, the whole thing.
Although it is true that all my boys
And I really loved feeding the boys. There
come home or stay home often and we
Lombardi is that is freezes beautifully so
were years when the O line ate at our
do have many of their friends for dinner
make two and give yourself a night off in a
house every Thursday night and there
frequently, I can’t help but be struck by
few weeks! Happy football season!
were years when several moms gathered
this passage of time and how I will miss
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