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[turps]

Happy belated birthday to charlidos. I hope you had a lovely day.

I was very lame and went to bed at 8:30 last night. Just me and a long NCIS fic to read. Sadly it was pretty much all sex, which is nice and all but some plot would have been good.

Though getting all that sleep did give me an interesting dream. Where I was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars with Mikey Way. Which yeah, the ways in which that's ridiculous are many, especially if you've seen me in person.

It was a nice Sunday yesterday. Corey still wasn't well so James took off to do Scout things alone while me and Corey hung out at home, watching tv and making Sunday dinner. My story is at that point where the end is in sight, one of the most important scenes coming up next. Which I'm looking forward to but have a problem where I've been using a tight one person POV and he's not the person that's important to the scene. I really need to get it into my head that multiple POVs are okay.

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[turps33.livejournal.com]

It's my last holiday for being a student.

I hope you're enjoying it, then.

I've done nothing with the pumpkin yet. It came in a vegetable box so is a little small, but no doubt it will be carved and the insides eaten.

I did roast the aubergine last night and it was horrible. It was like eating soggy slugs. I'll try a different way next time. Obviously just cutting it up and shoving it with the other veggies isn't the way to go.

[nopseud]

It needs to be roasted at a high temperature, and you need to brush the aubergine pieces well with olive oil first, so they'll crisp up nicely. Space them out, too, so they don't go soggy.

You can also get some of the water out of them before you cook them, by cutting them up and then putting them on a plate and sprinkling salt all over them. Then after half an hour or so, pour off the water, rinse off the salt and pat the aubergines dry, then cook them.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Ah. I see. Thanks for the tips.

But man, canned corn is looking very attractive right now.

[nopseud]

Hee! I have to admit, I don't really do the salting thing unless I'm planning to grill the aubergine. Usually I put aubergine in curries and things, so I don't have to worry about the water content.

Ooh, you can also make an awesomely tasty dip with aubergines. Let me see if I can find a recipe on the intarwebs...

...here's a really easy one.

You could put in a bit of paprika, too, if you like, just to spice it up a little.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That really is easy. I like recipes like that. Thank you!