One Potato, Two Potato....

Today is a special day! The beginning of the end is in sight. The beginning of what end, you say? The potato famine, of course.

One potato, two potato, three potato...four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato...more. This was just a counting rhyme, wasn't it? Well, whatever it was for, we're going to live it in our house tonight. Yes, that's right, we *are* going to eat *real* mashed potatoes!!! After 6 months of none due to MeLissa's wretched allergy test, we are now ready to start re-introducing foods and potatoes won the first slot.

Why potatoes when there were choices such as pineapple, cranberries, avocado and green peppers, you ask? Well, it happened this way - MeLissa had originally picked tomatoes to go first for the simple reason that a big ol' plate of spaghetti (or some sort of Italian fare, at least) sounded mighty fine. However, when she really started thinking about it, she decided to play better odds. Sure tomatoes are in lots of foods, but typically, most of the foods she likes them in also have garlic and onions and such (salsa, anyone?). It dawned on her, too, that if the allergic reaction to tomatoes is still alive and well, she would have "wasted" a choice on eating a food outside of its tried and true form and would have to wait another 2 weeks before trying something else.

Then her Irish self (a little known fact about MeLissa - she was born a Murphy which just happens to be a nickname for potatoes!) broke through and said "Hello!! Anybody in there? Erhem...how about potatoes?" MeLissa decided to chuck the tomato further down the line and bring in the potato. So, tonight, we will be having a roast and mashed potatoes for dinner with our fingers crossed. If we make it past that, there will be hashbrowns, baked potatoes, french fries and tater tots (oh, come on Mark, you know you want 'em!!) to look forward to. The only drawback, no ketchup....but there's always cheese sauce, my friends!

The next challenge? Figuring out what food will be next. Pineapple sounds good, but we're thinking we'll leave that for when we go to Maui in March...after all, just in case she has to put it back on the shelf, we might as well make sure that the pineapple she does her reintroduction test with is a superior one! :0 )

And, don't you just love these pictures of Darth Tater and his Mash Trooper? Too funny...and perfect for this post!