Mar
I am completely drained from the last few weeks: work stress + family stress = one tired mama.
The universe did not get the memo, though. Two nights ago, because I had too many things to do at once, I decided to fix loaded baked potatoes for supper. After I popped the washed, poked, and salted spuds in the oven, I worked at my computer for a while. At one point in the evening, I heard a muffled sound, not unlike a heavy book being closed.
When I went to remove the baked offerings, I discovered that one of them was not happy being a plain, white potato from Idaho. No, it thought of itself more like a Hellfire Missile, and it chose this day to unleash its terrifying and awesome power against the oven coils.
The universe seems to have forgotten that moms bake potatoes for dinner when they absolutely do not have time for anything more elaborate, and as a corollary, do not have time to clean the fucking oven.
The universe needs to remember that I can do voodoo.
5 Responses to “Hellfire Potatoes”
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M said:
Wow! That has never happened to me! Who went without a potato last night?
Linda said:
being from potato country (no, not Idaho, but the other, lesser-known potato country – Northern Maine), I have seen potatoes become all sorts of things…but your potato takes the cake (potato?). I’ve seen slimy, molding, rotten potatoes used as airborne missles (there is NOTHING like rotten potato gak in your ear at 6:30 in the morning…knowing that you’ll be smelling that all day, as you pick, pick, pick potatoes for 42 cents a barrel – yup, that was me). But I still think your hellfire potato is the best. For the record, I just microwave them…haven’t had one explode on me yet.
azn8tive said:
Hate it when that happens.
Bo said:
@Linda if you microwave them, though, you don’t get the crispy skin. I love the crispy skin.
saintseester said:
Yes, I wanted crispy skin; that’s why I did not have them wrapped in foil! Lawrence went without because there was something else he preferred in the fridge.
The potato contents came out of one point on the side, it shot out from there. It did not completely blow up!