You for a Day Sweet and Sour Carrots

Sliced carrots cooked in a sauce of ginger, sherry, tomato puree, vinegar and brown sugar (with some cornstarch as a thickening agent). An interesting little side dish. I decided to go with a vegetable tonight after the huge amount of food consumed yesterday in celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday.

Episode Note: "The Grass is Always Greener" Yet another battle of the sexes debacle. This time, Mike and Carol both think the other has the easier household chores so Alice suggests they switch for the day. The kids are less than enthusiastic, but as Mike explains to the boys he's just trying to teach Carol that 'helping girls is a cinch compared to helping boys,' and Carol tells the girls that 'a man has to be taught how difficult it is to be a woman.'  Carol  must coach the boys in baseball, while Mike helps Marcia try to earn a cooking merit badge. Well, we all know how this is going to go. Of course, they both make fools of themselves when they step outside of their traditional, stereotypical Male/Female - Mother/Father roles. Carol attempts to teach the boys the fine art of bunting and the results are less than perfect as she pratfalls all over the backyard. Mike has equally comic results in the kitchen, slipping on eggs, dropping bowls (luckily, they were all melamine) and making a mess with the mixer all while talking a big game how men are more efficient than women. At the end of the day, neither can move a muscle, nor admit they were wrong. I guess the grass is always greener on someone else's AstroTurf.