Right now

[desperance]

I have bread rising; stock reducing; a pan heating*; a pie baking; potatoes roasting; wine breathing; a wife waiting.

Any bets on what I forget, what burns, what catastrophe occurs?

[EtA: actually what happened, the moment I posted? The smoke-alarm went off. In the bedroom, which - of the five smoke alarms in this house - is furthest from the kitchen. Some vagary of air...]

*for broccolini