Down in Norfolk, Virginia, good neighbor Sam Peavy (AKA the Lasagna Lady) set a goal to whomp up 1,000 pans of lasagna this past holiday season. I hope she accomplished that goal, but I see no followups on the web. But what a great thing to do for people in need! Who doesn't love lasagna!?
There is an art to cooking a meal for your family, and quite another to cook for a thousand families, but Ms Peavy has been working on this for 25 years now. She teamed up with the Women's Club of Norfolk and the Norfolk Fire Department to bring warm, comforting meals to that group of familiesin need at the holidays.
"I love making lasagna, to me lasagna is lots of love, so I thought I should call this Love and Lasagna," Peavy told local news station WTKR. The Love and Lasagna squad does their good work at the Women's Club kitchen.
"You are meat and cheese, and you guys are sauce and noodles," Ms Peavy was heard to say to her volunteers, assigning each one a task.
It was last autumn when Ms Peavy came up with the idea. As she put it, "I'd like for everyone in Virginia, or in our community anyways, to have lasagna for the holidays, just to have something warm or some type of centerpiece, just for them to conversate, for them to heal. For whatever they may need it for."
Told that many people are really up against it in wintertime, Ms Peavy said again, she wants to serve up kindness along with pasta, beef, sauce, and cheese: "What better way to have this square piece of love," she said.
All it takes is for good people to do something...
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