Eggplant Parmesan
I mentioned earlier that I am now a vegetarian thanks to Beth. One of the tricks of being a vegetarian is to find good food that keeps you from missing meat. I was at Whole Foods earlier this week when I spotted beautiful eggplants so I grabbed one although I had no idea how to cook it. I ended up improvising a recipe so I thought I would share it.
I decided on eggplant parmesan but all the recipes I found called for frying the eggplant. First, I am trying to avoid fried food and second, eggplant absorbs everything so if you don’t do it right you end up with an oily, soggy mess. So I decided to try just baking it in sauce and seeing how that ended up.
You probably read the headlines a couple of days ago about the supposed terrorist cheese bombs that were found by airport security around the nation. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration even released the picture at right showing a recovered cheese bomb. The story was that terrorists were using the cheese bombs to do dry runs to see if they could get bombs through airport security.
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As soon as I read this I recognized it as having been based on an episode of The Twilight Zone. The episode called, “Button, Button” starts with a couple in financial trouble. A stranger comes to their door and hands them a special box. He says that if they press the button, they will receive a large sum of money - but someone they don’t know will die. Eventually, the wife pushes the button over her husband’s objections. The next day the stranger returns, takes back the box and gives them the money. The wife asks him what will happen next. The stranger ominously replies that the button will be reprogrammed and given to someone else - the last line being “It will be offered to someone you do not know.”
It’s a sad day for all Americans as the paper that advertises itself as, “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper” has announced that it is closing up shop and ceasing publication. The weekly newspaper, which has been in business since 1979, has announced that the August 27th issue will be the final issue.
Original reports had suggested that there was something nefarious going on (perhaps alien intervention) but it turns out to be simply an issue of money. Creating the print version of the Weekly World News is apparently an expensive proposition. Anyway, waiting on line to pay for groceries will never be the same. Goodbye, Weekly World News! We will miss you.
Finally, I have my very own iPod. I had the ROKR phone but that only held 100 songs but and it wasn’t even a very good phone. So I got the 30GB video iPod and it is very cool. I was able to get a discount because I turned in Beth’s old iPod, the one she accidentally dropped in a sink full of water while she was on her trip to Quebec. It never worked after that but the people at the Apple Store didn’t care.
I was really amazed at how small the Shuffle is… I would lose that thing in less than a week!
Anyway, in celebration of having a new iPod, I did something I haven’t done in about five years… I made myself a gin and tonic.
