Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

Meat and Potatoes Please

Meat and potatoes and chicken will not do
Has to be beef and genuine Iowa-grown corn-fed too
Mashed potatoes not those flimsy flakes from a box
Gravy stirred by loving hands valuable as Fort Knox

Dessert can be cake if you cannot get Mom’s pie
If you can there’s nothing better under this old sky
Scalloped corn and twice baked loaded potatoes
With thick bubbly cheese sauce that freely flows

You are on a diet? This is really no problem at all.
There is a always a leftover pile of carrots left in the hall
Sometimes a new relative brings a piece of lettuce too
I will eat the good stuff leaving rabbit food for you

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Quoth Theraven February 13, 2020 at 9:07 AM Caren, Mmmm..beef & real mashed potatoes. And pie..cherry or pecan. You really know the way to a man's heart. -Richard Caren Krutsinger February 13, 2020 at 9:17 AM My mother always made beef, potatoes, gravy, and pie - sometimes two different pies - per evening meal. I was spoiled, because my dad thought anything else on the plate was not a supper.

P.S. Awtry February 12, 2020 at 2:36 PM You made me giggle about the rabbit food. Sometimes you just want the good stuff--all the yummy comfort foods of home :) Caren Krutsinger February 13, 2020 at 8:46 AM We BUY the rabbit food, keeping it around until it welts or melts, then throwing it out so no one will know how bad our diet is.