Food Tuesday: This Potato Thing

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Marian Allen

#FoodTuesday #writingprompt #vegetarian

I made this potato thing for breakfast. I started with heating up frozen Potatoes O’Brien (potatoes, bell peppers, and onions). Then I added salt, pepper, marjoram, vegan egg substitute, and Fuego Colby Jack Cheese.

Cooked it, flipped it, ate it.

Was it good? I’ve had worse.

As #4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, said when somebody asked if it was safe to eat a thing, “Oh, you can eat anything once.”

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Eating a possibly unsafe thing.

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I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but now live in the woods in southern Indiana. Though I only write fiction, I love to read non-fiction. The more I learn about this world, the more fantastic I see it is. Marian Allen's Amazon profile

One thought on “Food Tuesday: This Potato Thing”

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January 23, 2026 at 2:13pm

I love the name of the dish – “potato thing” because it sums it up so well and because my body does very well with potatoes – I would have probably liked this (more than once) and WITHOUT any flour… it looks so good in your photo

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  Marian Allen
  January 23, 2026 at 2:35pm
  
  It did turn out pretty good, all in all. I’m part German and part Irish, so I’m pretty much made of potatoes. The joke in our family is that our idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a potato.
  
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Daniel Antion
January 22, 2026 at 6:25pm

I like what your daughter said. That concoction looks mighty good.

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  Marian Allen
  January 23, 2026 at 10:11am
  
  If I had it to do again, I might add some flour to make it more pancake-y. Or maybe not.
  
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