The Dependable Baked Potato

I'm sitting here, sweetly buzzed on this Friday night, over-seeing a mammoth sized baked potato under the clutches of my oven just....baking. What I love about this potato is that it just sits there. It doesn't sizzle, doesn't need to be flipped, or rubbed in olive oil, or swathed in anything, other than heat. It just is. Unassuming, undemanding, no stage, no pomp, no flambe....

Katherine Hepburn once described her lover and life partner Spencer Tracy this way...dependable, like a baked potato. It nice once in a while, after enjoying morsels of deliciousness, dripping in butter, or champagne that tickles our noses - to pay homage to the yen in life, the simple, the plain, and the always dependable, potatoes in life.....