1341 Dinners to Go - Do the Mashed Potato!

 Last night, I realized with a start that I had some potatoes that had begun to sprout, and they needed to be used up. Dinner was officially sort of over, as we had all fended for ourselves with leftovers on an unexpectedly busy Sunday night. 

Potato pancakes are the best food you're not making right now.

But still... the potatoes. 

I struggled with feeling too tired to do anything and rationalizing that another night wouldn't hurt, but I knew I was kidding myself. I had a jam-packed Monday, and those potatoes were gonna end up in the garbage. 

So I got up, peeled them, cubed them, and boiled them with the intention of making them into mashed potatoes for later in the week. Except when I went to mash the potatoes with some homemade broth I had on hand, I used too much and made a potato mess that was halfway between a mash and a soup.

DAMMIT.

"I could add more broth and some milk or cream and make a potato chowder," I thought. Or, and this was just the exhaustion talking at this point, "There's a box of Jiffy pancake mix, I could throw that in there with an egg and some shredded cheese and make potato pancakes?"

Suddenly, I was doing just that! To one cup of soupy mashed potatoes, I added 1/2 C of Jiffy pancake mix, some shredded cheese, and even some hemp hearts, because WHY NOT at this point? You know? I fried them on medium heat in some baking spray, pretty much like regular pancakes, and ate them with some salt and a little sour cream. I had 3. And then when my kid got home from sportsball practice, she had the 4th one I made and told me it was "The best potato pancakes you've ever made". 

Tonight, after physical therapy for me and sportsball for the kiddo, it will be a grab-and-go chicken taco kit from Costco, and Tuesday may see the return of potato pancakes or they may live out their destiny as soup after all. (Potato and corn chowder, maybe? Throw in some bacon? I could get crazy.)

(Take some time today to observe that even seemingly immutable disasters can be redeemed. Call your congressperson and tell them that only Congress can suspend habeus corpus and that any attempt by the president to do so is unlawful and will result in mass protests and disruption.)

 See you on the flipside!