Oh my, Barb. There are just nothing I can think of to say to that.

S'okay, babe. I can think of plenty. Starting with, thank GOD I wasn't anywhere near this mess.

the Turkish eggplant, which are starting to look kind of wrinkled, which I'm guessing isn't good

It's probably fine. if it cools down enough, just throw it in the oven with some olive oil, s&p, onion, and some whole garlic cloves. whiz it up in the food processor or blender for an easy dip.

A blender? That's kind of complicated.

(Poor P-C. He will never live that down. Not while I am here to kick the horse, anyway.)

Not while I am here to kick the horse, anyway.

We were kicking that horse when it was feeling a little off, not even dead yet.

This reminds me yet again of the race car team called Dead Horse Racing. Because? You can't beat a Dead Horse.

I was indoctrinated into bad word play early...

You know if I ever get P-C for Seeekrit Santa, he's getting an Osterizer.

"Can't use a blender" can't die until "Moldy nacho-flavored rice from a tube" does...

It'll be a while.

It's probably fine. if it cools down enough, just throw it in the oven with some olive oil, s&p, onion, and some whole garlic cloves. whiz it up in the food processor or blender for an easy dip.

The Turkish eggplant has really cool bright orange skin, though, so I'd been planning to make it in some way that would let the skin still show. I did just buy some tahihi, though, so maybe baba ganoush, if it cools down enough to use the oven. (I'm guessing it won't, in which case, I'll fry it in a bit of olive oil and make a tahini garlic sauce.)

I don't think I could cook without my food processor. I'm pretty sure I use it at least two or three times a week. I do want to get a blender too, though, mostly for smoothies, since I seem to be utterly incapable of getting a smoothie from the food processor bowl into a sports bottle without getting smoothie on half my kitchen, too.

Aw. I got outbid by six cents on the dehydrator. And I set a limit for myself on how much I'd spend on stupid kitchen gadgets, so no dehydrator for me. Unless I can find another that cheap.

Phase I of the Great Toy Purge of Aught - Nine is about finished. There are the dregs of the toybox (mostly Happy Meal toys and the like and random puzzel/game pieces) that need to be sorted and organized and/or dumped and also finding interim places for stuff that will go on the shelves that Do Not Exist. We have (hopefully) created a good play area for Em. I need to find a cheap floor covering for that side. Either a hunormous area rug or those interlocking foam pieces.

Aims, do you have Freecycle.org in your area? I bet a bag of all of those discarded toys would go within minutes. And you could put up a wanted notice for the area rug that you need.