Crackpot Tuesdays

Photo by Taste of Home

Male Native number three was the picker/chooser of yesterdays crackpot meal and he chose Hobo Meatball Stew



Now folks, I realize I'm a little slow and all.....and there's a lot of space that could be put to good use between my ears but I'm just plumb puzzled looking at the photo from Taste of Home and the photo from Taste of Rachel.....

Let's play a game. One of those games you play in kindergarten. What's different about these photos? I mean besides the obvious....different bowls, a chunk of bread thrown into ours.... What is missing?

I'll give you a hint. Look at the list of ingredients. As you look at the list of ingredients maybe you can guess why this one didn't rate so high for us either. The younger Natives loved it. Who wouldn't? Everything tastes better smothered in ketchup right? The older Natives, The SM, and I felt it was a shady three stars. Only because I doctored it up a bit. As in... a lot! And even then.....it wasn't fabulous as far as stews go.



Not to mention, if you're going to go through all of the trouble of taking raw hamburger meat, rolling it into balls,



throwing it into a pan,



and browning it on all sides it better be in something like meatballs with barbecue sauce that sits and cooks on low all day long so the meatballs are covered in candied sugar basically!

Me, I'd rather roll balls of cake and dip them in chocolate!!!

Peas. There's the answer. Not that it would have made a difference in the stew. It just had me puzzled for a moment. Thankfully, I have a short attention span so I wasn't tripped up about it for too long. For all of you OCD people out there, hope I didn't ruin your day. Let it go.............Taste of Home did!

And now, if the images of raw hamburger haven't completely grossed you out, I would like to share with you a conversation I had with Native number 4. Mr. M

Mr. M: Mom! This is SO GROSS! I was playing with (we'll call him youngest)and he was laughing so hard because I was tickling him and I was laughing so hard and youngest drooled cuz he was laughing so hard and I was laughing so hard it went in my mouth! It was SO SICK MOM!

Me: (laughing) M, that is disgusting! I'd have puked!

Mr. M: I almost did! It was just sick man.

Me: No, if you'd have puked then I'd have puked and THEN that would be sick cuz you'd have to clean it up....man!

Mr. M: That's not funny mom.