My husband Howard and I married when I was twenty-eight and he was twenty-nine. We visited his mother for a few days as she couldn‘t attend the wedding.  Mom's kitchen was always pristine and when she went out for the afternoon, we decided to surprise her by making a batch of her favorite pea soup. After all, how hard it could it be.

 

We had watched her make it many times, so we knew it would be a snap. I put the ingredients in the pressure cooker just like the recipe said, put the lid in place, turned on the stove and went we went into the living room to watch television. There was a war movie on, so when we heard the loud bang, we thought it was the cannon going off.

 

Little did we know what it really was.  About thirty minutes later, we decided to check on our soup and were we in for the surprise! 

 

The noise we had heard was that the lid had blown off the pressure cooker and pea soup was everywhere.

 

Mom's kitchen that she prided herself on was now a mass of sea-green foam. It was everywhere. The counters, the walls, the stove top - everywhere. While we tried to clean it, it would hardly budge. Our laughter was uncontrollable as we thought of how mom would react when she saw the mess. Of course, we felt bad at the same time too.

 

She came home around five o'clock with a happy grin on her face, that is, until she saw the kitchen fiasco.

 

"What happened?" she said with a look of shock.

 

No amount of explaining was placating her. Not only did Mom's kitchen look green, so did her face. I made an impression on her alright - just not the kind I intended!

 

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