  Fat and Gooey Tuesday from guest loser Peggy - Plan on making gumbo for a festive, Mardi Gras-themed family dinner.
- Have 11-year-old remind you at 5:30 that he has basketball practice in an hour, and he has invited his friend to stay for dinner before practice. - Preheat oven to 425 degrees for Jack's frozen cheese pizza. - Have husband walk in from work and ask "What's burning?
" - Open oven door and find remains of Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookie package that you had hidden in there away from 16-year old son, who would eat them all and not leave any for his brother's lunchbox. - Remove oven rack and melted cookie package from oven (with mitts), and place on top of stove, then open kitchen window to fan smoke out before the fire department shows up because the alarm system is connected to them when the smoke detector goes off.
It would not be the first time. (See: Infamous Indoor Ancho Chile Toasting incident of 1999. ) - Throw cookie package in sink, and notice that the sections of cookies have fused into a not-unattractive, nouveau-towerish sort of mass. Briefly consider serving these as dessert, perhaps with ice cream. Discard idea after getting whiff of noxious melted cellophane. - Put cookie mass down disposal. - Peel melted plastic off oven rack, which comes off surprisingly easily. - Let oven air out a few minutes and put pizza in. Serve with applsauce and milk. 
