Spatulas, Corkscrews & Suitcases

EGGPLANT FACES ~ A Real Farmers' Market Doozie!

                              
Goddard Park Farmers' Market
Look at this Eggplant I found at the local Farmers' Market last week! It had an appendage that I thought looked like a nose! Some others that I won't mention thought it looked like something else! Sheesh!

                                                                

Willy The Eggplant
I was strolling through the farm stands and this one caught my eye. I couldn't stop staring at it! I KNEW I could make something out of it, and Eggplant Parmesan wasn't what I was thinking about! I kept thinking Mr. Potato Head, Mr. Potato Head! I gave him a name. I paid for Willy and took him home. He had no idea what his fate was at the time.

I had a few imported olives left from a Grilled Pizza fest, so I used those for the eyes and mouth. When I was done with the photo shoot, John promptly ate Willy's eyes off, then his mouth!

I kept him around for 5 days. I propped him up on the shelf and posed him in some silly positions.

I gave him some reading glasses to make him look intelligent, but it turns out that Willy can't read.

                                                          
Put some sunglasses on him and laid him out in the sun. Willy already had a natural tan, but I thought, what the heck, he deserves a little relaxation!

Willy even went sailing, but alas, he was already blind by that time so he really couldn't appreciate it very much. He did enjoy the wind in his hair though.


I contemplated eating Willy, so I tricked him by putting him in a swimming pool (aka frying pan) and invited some colorful friends (mushrooms and red peppers) to hang around with him. Willy was NOT amused!

I never did do anything culinary with Willy. And then Willy's world started to crumble. He started to smell. Willy was rotting from the inside out. So I did what any good legal guardian would do. I kissed him threw him in the trash. What a horrible fate. Sorry Willy!

                                                          

Cuisinart 9 Speed Hand Mixer for Mother's Day!

                                                                            

I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!
I have an announcement to make! The kids that I spawned are good kids after all! What started out as a tease by me was taken very seriously by my kids, well three out of four of them anyway. You might remember my post with me singing the Spice Girls Wannabe song ~ "Yo! I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want"? Not only did they and all their friends see the post, all of my peeps here saw the post and then it was plastered all over the internet by TasteSpotting! I got over 500 hits on my blog that day!

The box came in the mail on Wednesday. John was supposed to keep it quiet until Mother's Day but he knew I was working so hard trying to get some articles written, that he showed it to me when he got home. I nearly bust a seam when I read the card inside, "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! LOVE, THE KIDS YOU SPAWNED!" This mixer came from Williams-Sonoma! I wonder if the folks at WS had as big a laugh as I did!
                                                                           

Look at those dough hooks!
So, I'm here to publicly proclaim that my kids do adore their wacky, nut-job mother. So much so, that they thought enough to send the very best. Thank You Kerri, Erika and John, I'll love you forever!
I decided that I liked the looks of the Cuisinart 9 speed Professional Hand Mixer way more than the KitchenAid. It's got a futuristic sci-fi look to it. Kind of like a robot with whisks attached to it! AND, it came with two beaters, a whisk, spatula and dough hooks! What hand-held job comes with dough hooks?

The moral of the story? If you tell your kids what you really, really want, don't stop there. Plaster it all over the web via your blog, TasteSpotting and anything else you can think of! Tell their friends, send forwards to relatives. Do some shameless advertising. In the end, you'll get what you want, what you really, really want! You deserve it. You know you do!
                                                                                 

KitchenAid 9-Speed Hand Mixer

                                           
My Mother's Day Wish List

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want,*
This is What I Want, What I Really, Really Want!
I want a KitchenAid 9-Speed Hand Mixer for Mother's Day!

Hey! To the children that I spawned, I'm talkin' to you!
Mother's Day is next Sunday, May 11th. This is one of the items on my wish list.
                                                               

If you really want to make your Mother Happy this year, you can all chip in and buy one of these super special 9-speed Hand Mixers by KitchenAid. (I put the nice shiny red one here to get your attention, but I really, really want the pretty Brushed Chrome one from Cuisinart) The red ones are  on sale right now at Williams-Sonoma for only $89.95, but you get a $10.00 rebate when you buy it from them. I'll even give you the links so you don't have to go hunting for it. And, you can get me a Dunkin' Donuts card with the $10.00 you saved!

Then....I'll love you forever!
XO XO ~ YOUR MOM

* Adapted Wannabe Lyrics by The Spice Girls

Just A Quick Note!

A Few Misspelled Words!
You'll probably notice a few misspelled words in the post below.  That wasn't intentional. I added a new feature to my blog yesterday and I had no idea they would pick up on certain words in the body of my COCONUT MARSHMALLOW CUPCAKE post.

Let me interrupt myself a moment!  Just so you don't feel that reading this is a waste of your time, I'll put this luscious Strawberry Cheesecake right here in the middle of the post so you'll have something to  drool over!
                                                                              

LOOK AT YOUR BLOG MOM!
Erika called me and said "Mom, you need to look at your blog! There's some ads you don't want displayed there!"  I asked her what they were. After the initial shock wore off, we chuckled a bit. I told her I wasn't home and to quickly go into my blog account and change the spelling of these words.

I won't say what the words were, you'll know when you see their misspelled cousins. Prior to this situation, I wrote what I wanted. Now, I have to be a little more careful with the words I use. Thing is, this is how I've seen it described and worded elsewhere. It's a popular phrase!  Oh well, at least the ads are rated "D" for Desserts now!