Shortcuts

Like everyone, I have things that I do the "short-cut" way.

I have specific routes I take to frequent destinations that I know to be the fastest and easiest. You don't really care that when I head to the mall I turn right off my street instead of left, even though they both can get me where I need to go, though.

I have a deep love of convenience products, whether it is Clorox Wipes (LOVE them) or Hamburger Helper (being pregnant with Emily sort of cured me of my love of Cheeseburger Macaroni, but I still LOVE the Tuna Helper). Emily, until very recently, breakfasted on a PopTart every single morning because it was quick and easy for her to eat and for me to prepare. I'm not a morning person and I am certainly not up to cooking anything involved before I've had a shower.

I have only recently begun to make mashed potatoes the "real" way, because I always thought they were a lot of work. That and they tasted disgusting. I discovered the solution to the gross taste thing - Yukon Gold potatotes. Wow! They are SO yummy.

I am very intrigued by Ore-Ida's new Steam n' Mash potatoes. Word has it you can take the bag out of the freezer, toss the chunks of potato into your microwave (in a bowl, of course) and voila! In a few minutes, you have the yumminess of mashed potatoes without the water-boiling and hand-mixer mashing.

Oh, and every time I wrote potato in this post? I had to go back and remove the extra 'e' that I can't seem to stop putting on there. Damn that Dan Quayle. I could spell potato just fine until he insisted some kid spelled it wrong.

This post is brought to you on behalf of the Parent Bloggers Network and Ore-Ida's new Steam n' Mash Potatoes.