Eggplant is nasty

Either I am the absolute WORST eggplant chef in the known universe or eggplant is just plain nasty.

I vote for nasty.

What a waste. 95% of it ended up in the sink because it was so slimy and gross and nasty. I tried grillin' it in the george foreman (nasty). I tried broiling it under the oven broiler (nasty). I even tried covering it with nummy tomato sauce (still effin nasty). No further eggplant experiments were necessary to conclude that I do not like eggplant... and thus will never ever ever attempt to cook it again.

YUK!

In other news the deck is STILL not done (work began last Monday) because the builders were trying to half-ass the stairs and mike put a stop to it, called out the manager and got them to agree to send out their "lead builder" today to fix the stairs and anything else we have a problem with. The other problem is that it rained last night so now the wood is wet and I can't stain/protect wet wood... so now I have to wait at least a couple of days for everything to dry out again or the stain won't penetrate properly. UGH!

I don't think I would EVER recommend this deck company to anyone, we regret going with them now... if they make things right I won't bad-mouth them completely... but right now I'm annoyed as hell.

SO much still to do before the family arrives and the newest twist in the plans is that the lake where the SWIM portion of the Triathlon takes place next weekend was CLOSED on Friday by the county health department because of a possible stomach-virus outbreak in 25 people that were at the lake last week. The thing is... there were like 3000 OTHER people at the lake who didn't get sick and all the ones who did were from ONE Summer camp program, who all rode on the same bus, ate together, etc... etc... etc... which makes ME think its probably a food poisoning issue and not the lake at all. Especially since the Health Dept. already said it didn't look like E-coli due to the progression of the illness. So at this point I don't even know if there will be a triathlon at all.

Maybe we'll just have a bar-be-que.

*sigh*

Posted by Lexy at July 19, 2004 08:01 AM