{"id":9997,"date":"2019-04-25T19:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9997"},"modified":"2019-04-25T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:52:28","slug":"wednesdays-at-abbys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9997","title":{"rendered":"Wednesdays at Abby’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Grace Nordquist–<\/strong>\u201cThank you for\ndinner again,\u201d has become a common phrase at the Koch household on Wednesday\nnights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abby Koch, Morningside sophomore, has been having friends over for dinner once a week since February – well more like her mother, Mary. After some friends had been complaining about the food at Morningside\u2019s cafeteria, Mary decided to prepare a meal for Abby and her friends once a week. Thus, \u201cWednesdays at Abby\u2019s\u201d began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first it was\njust Abby and her two friends, Mari Pizzini and Kaitlynn McShane, who went over\nto her house, only a couple minutes from campus. Then, when others found out\nabout the delicious meals, the group grew. Now the group includes Shane Roeder,\nDiego Marquez, and myself. For the students it\u2019s a simple invite over for\ndinner, but this seemingly simple gathering makes Mary Koch one happy mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary sets up her\nmeal for the night in the kitchen as the students file through and pile up\ntheir plates. Almost everything is homemade, including the delicious ranch\ndressing. One of the best parts – there\u2019s almost always a dessert. Once the\nstudents make their way to the living room, Mary says a prayer over the meal\nand the students, making the time even more meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary says she enjoys having the students over and watching them interact. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s just a blessing to see Abby\u2019s friends come in.\u201d She smiles as the students gather in the living room with full plates, discussing their busy schedule as the year comes to an end. She\u2019s heard about them before, but adds, \u201cIt\u2019s nice to put a name with the face.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary has enjoyed cooking for as long as she can remember, and the students can tell. Her home cooked meals are hands down their favorite meal of the week and why they look forward to Wednesdays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 If there was a dish she\u2019s known for, her\ndaughter Abby says it would have to be her chicken enchiladas and her coffee\ncake for dessert, but the variety of her dishes are endless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students all\nhave their own top choices.  Mari Pizzini\nsays the taco burgers are her favorite. They\u2019re made of ground beef with taco\nseasoning and a quesadilla for a bun. Kaitlynn McShane recalls the thanksgiving\nstyle feast as her favorite. As for Shane, Diego, and I, the lasagna has taken\nfirst place in our hearts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it may just\nbe a simple meal once a week, it means a lot to the students. Mari notes, \u201cI\nlike it a lot. Abby\u2019s one of my best friends and I love her parents.\u201d  You can tell by the smiles on the student\u2019s\nfaces and their full stomachs that they enjoy the meals. It\u2019s a time, if only\nfor a moment, where they can take a break from the stresses of school and enjoy\na home cooked meal at their home away from home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Grace Nordquist–\u201cThank you for dinner again,\u201d has become a common phrase at the Koch household on Wednesday nights. Abby Koch, Morningside sophomore, has been having friends over for dinner once a week since February – well more like her mother, Mary. After some friends had been complaining about the food at Morningside\u2019s cafeteria, Mary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[53903,132,46941,46880,53905],"class_list":["post-9997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-food-2","tag-friends","tag-morningside-college-2","tag-msidelife","tag-wednesdaysatabbys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9999,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions\/9999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}