Saturday morning I made my favorite dish: Potato Castle.
The Potato Castle did not last long. Everyone wanted seconds. Boris even had thirds. Then he asked for the recipe.
Potato Castle Recipe
Ingredients:
1 bucket of mashed potatoes, packed
12 baked potato skins stuffed with melted cheese
1 extra large bottle of ketchup
100 French fries
Turn bucket of mashed potatoes upside down on platter. Remove bucket carefully. For windows, use potato skins, cheese side out. Pour ketchup around base of castle to make moat. Arrange fries around moat. Dig in.
After we passed the bowl of caramels around, Yoshi grabbed his ukulele. He strummed really fast. Tonya jumped up and started twirling. We all ate candy and danced like crazy.
Then Yoshi played “Somewhere over the Rainbow,” and everyone slid down the banister and went home.
The next morning Yoshi ran up to my door and gave the secret knock. He brought his own pencil. He asked me to help him write a thank-you note, so I did.
This time it was a long note, and by the time we finished it, my hand was sore. I read it out loud.
“Will you do it over?” Yoshi asked. “And leave out the part about Boris? It sounds mean.”
“No,” I said. “My hand is too tired. But I’ll cross it out for you. How’s that?”
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That evening I found another note under my door.
Just as I was starting to feel more peaceful about life in the Periwinkle Tower, one last note shot across the floor.
