Meatball Dip

Tina Perry

It was graduation day, and after graduation, I was supposed to have a "gathering" for the family at church. My mom asked everyone to bring something that they were very good at cooking. The only twist was everyone had to bring something different.

My Aunt Vallarie decided that she wanted to make meatballs. But she really doesn't know how to cook. Since I am her favorite niece, she decided to make them from scratch. Wrong thing to do!

So, she went out and got some beef, salsa sauce, salsa cheese, and Philadelphia cream cheese. She put the meat in little balls and poured in some of that salsa sauce to give it a little flavor. She knows that I love things that are very cheesy, so she added some cheese to it to make it special for me and to make it seem like it was her secret recipe.

Then she put it in the pan, and it all just came out to be a mess. She burned the meat. And she added too much cheese. And the sauce was running out of the balls. So, she just decided to start over. She went to the grocery store again and bought some more meat, cheese, and sauce. Take note, she didn't even use the cream cheese in the first one.

By then, she had no idea what she was doing. She called my mom and was like, "What can I make for Tina that no one else is making?" and my mom goes, "You should just make some type of dip. No one else is doing that." My aunt was like, "I was going with the meatballs," and my mom said, "No, someone else is doing that, so just make some dip." My aunt was like, "Can you come over here because I have no idea how to make dip like what you do." My mom was like, "I need you to go to the grocery store and get beef, mild salsa cheese, mild salsa sauce, and some Philadelphia cheese." My aunt said, "I already have that," and my mom was like, "Why do you already have that?" And my aunt was like, "I was trying to make some meatballs," and my mom was like, "I hope not with all of that."

My mom told her not to touch anything else and that she was on the way. She went over there and put something together, brought it to church, and everyone loved it. It became something we made when we were hungry and in a rush, or we were cooking something that was going to take a long time to make and we needed something to snack on. We found out later that you could add sausage to it, but we soon came to find out that it tastes better with the beef.

Everyone in the family makes it, but it's the best when my mom or I make it. It's not really something that you need a lot of people to make it, because having a lot of people in the kitchen while trying to make it only gets in the way, and you get mad and frustrated because there isn't room for you to cook, and it just gets too hot.