I hope this is my last depressing post for a while. I feel so bad about it, I couldn't even post a larger photograph out of embarrassment. The plate looked much more monochromatic than I expected it to. Everyone knows that a more colorful plate is generally a more healthy plate. And I thought it didn't taste so good. Fortunately, I have a very forgiving husband, and he blamed my incompetency on the antibiotics I was taking because he thought everything was fine. But for a driven person and perfectionist like myself, fine just isn't good enough. Perhaps you want more details to draw your own conclusion.

I was listening to The Splendid Table one day and heard a recommendation to add dill and browned onions to mashed potatoes. I'd also read somewhere that vegetable broth is a brilliant way to make flavorful, creamy potatoes without dairy. I was very excited. I browned my onions in butter and added them to my mashed potatoes followed by dry dill and my boxed Imagine Broth. Oh, and since I had white and sweet potatoes, I added 1/3 sweet potatoes in place of the white for some extra nutrients. There's just no other way to describe the result. Depressing. The broth turned the white parts of the potatoes brown, which made for an ugly-looking potato. I must not have had enough onions or didn't cook them properly because they really didn't stand out at all. And the dill reminded me of the potato entree we'd had earlier in the week, which wasn't bad; I was just expecting something different.

The Worthington vegetarian Skallops didn't brown as I expected. The corn tasted watered-down even though I added no extra water but plenty of onion and garlic powder. And if I hadn't been so hungry, I'd have left the plate alone.

OK, I'm done with depressing stories. Let's think happy thoughts. . .I'm glad potatoes freeze because I won't be craving them for a while.