Remember that old Saturday Night Live skit, from the wonder years with Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin? They were playing preteens at a slumber party, wondering where babies come from. They were pretty sure you needed certain specifics, like marriage, a man, stuff like that. They had some gross, icky, disgusting ideas about sex. But the details eluded them. One of them said she believed a man could just shout "Have a baby right now!"Well, that's how I'm feeling about this bowl of mighty fine. There were certain specifics, and you needed a man. Cranky. He invented this potato salad today. It's exactly like many potato salads we make: hard-cooked egg, minced scallion, sliced celery. Throw some vinegar and olive oil on the drained potatoes while they're still warm. After it cools only just a bit, toss in your vegetables and a spoonful of mayonnaise. Salt and pepper.
Here's Cranky's sudden birth of an idea, a labor of love, a delivery of delight. He added a couple sliced, raw carrots. The color was so cheerful, I think we just jolted the earth's axis again and spring is coming early.
The little, polite crunch was a bundle of joy. And the flavor, sweet, just like a powdered infant.
A salad is born!
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I love the idea of a combination of potato and egg salad! I'll definitely be making this really soon! Maybe add some chopped ham too?
I can just imagine Cranky in a 'kiler bee' suit and knockin on the door and sayin "Cookiecrumb" gram.
Cookie: Oh, yeah! There's always room in potato salad for a little egg. You could bling it out from there any number of ways, and ham sounds good.
Chilebrown: He is a wild a crazy guy!
What an idea. Now I have to decide, who gets the last carrot in the fridge, me or Mrs Poss??
I so prefer Crank to Simon!
You write so well. Love the sex and procreation theme.
Tater salad rocks. I like the killer bee suit idea or maybe a land shark suit.
What a great idea! I've put lots of things in potato and egg salad but I never thought of carrots. I love crunch in food - or maybe I should say, I like good crunchy food in food that's usually smooth. There's good crunch and there's crunch that's due to sand, grit, etc. I like the former in food, not the later. Anyway, carrots in salad is going down on the stuff that I am going to try out soon.
Powdered infant? Like, just add water and BAM, baby?
Mouse: I'm sure Ms. Poss will get the carrot. Buy more! We've been sailing through them since we came up with this scheme to carrotize all food.
Kudzu: He's clever. And he's on the premises!
Zoomie: I am humbled. Thank you. It was fun, uh, "conceiving" this one.
Greg: Or a guy in a white suit with a banjo and an arrow through his head!
Nancy: I love crunch in food too. That's why we always overdid it with the celery tidbits. This time there was still a taste of celery, but the carrots ruled.
Spiteful: Is THAT where they come from?
See, you did it again!
Ick, EGG !!!!!!! Can't deal, running away ...
Zoomie: Anything for you, dear.
Biggles: No eggie? Aw.
That's how Emeril's kids were made: BAM, Baby. But You know where Kristie thinks maple syrup comes from, so take her ideas with a pinch of Essence™.
And, I would have the salad now, see, but it's midnight.
Peter: Kristie is Kathy Griffin.
Ghee & hardboiled eggs & oiled fish in a can make me run away at high speeds.
Biggles: Gee, no ghee? It's just clarified butter.
But, you know? It's up to you.
I ate jellyfish tentacles once.
I love it. Cranky sounds like a keeper. And I love carrots thrown into just about anything.
Hungry Dog: Yeah, Cranky's been keeping me fed. He likes being a wife.
You are SERIOUSLY into carrots, IIRC.
Clarified butter, feh. Butter with no butter in it, what's that all about?
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