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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote2012-09-08 06:17 pm

Autumn is coming!

It's such a beautiful day! For the past three months its been about ninety degrees every day, but today it's seventy, the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, and someone was playing a harmonica at the farmer's market.

I bought four storybook eggplants, never mind I have no idea how to cook eggplant of any kind. They cost twenty-five cents all together - storybook eggplants are quite small - so it can't be too much of a loss, and it might be delicious.

Also! Raspberries! There will be a raspberry tart!

And Starbucks had samples of pumpkin bread when I went there for hot chocolate. Mmmm...pumpkin bread. I love autumn.

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If this post hitherto has been too chipper for you, here, have Henri, the French New Wave Existentialist Cat. Oh, the first world problems! Oh, the existential despair!

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[identity profile] goldjadeocean.livejournal.com 2012-09-09 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Henri can get stuffed. :P The only meaning in life is what you make for yourself.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2012-09-09 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
He would make a very cute taxidermied cat...

Also, fleeing from the taxidermists would probably break through his ennui.
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[identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com 2012-09-09 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
Henri is a very special cat. Oh the ennui! :-D

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2012-09-09 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard work being so despairing all the time!
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[personal profile] ursula 2012-09-09 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
If you have the little Thai-style eggplants, you should be able to cut them thin and stir-fry them. Bigger eggplants are usually best cooked twice, once to make them squishy on the inside and once for flavoring. Toasting slices under the broiler with a bit of olive oil until light brown generally works.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2012-09-09 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
These are tiny, tiny eggplants. I'll try slicing them up and frying them and see how it works.
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[personal profile] ursula 2012-09-09 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds good!

Don't be stingy with the oil, eggplant soaks it up a bit.