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endlessrarities ([personal profile] endlessrarities) wrote2010-10-02 05:01 pm

Houston, We Have A Problem...

The Imperial Shuttle has Entered the Box...

But...

IT DOESN'T FIT!!!!! 

I've tried retracting its feet, but the central one won't move, and now its dorsal fin is protruding, Jaws-like, from the top opening.  I don't think these toys were built to be dismantled, either.

Bang goes e-bay then:-)

And now I'm off to stuff a pumpkin for dinner...
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[identity profile] red-trillium.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
TRAGEDY!! :( Hopefully you get the storage issue sorted!!

[identity profile] medievalmuse.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I read this BEFORE reading the other post and was like "wow, whatever she is on, I want some" and "what on earth is she stuffing that pumpkin with!" LOL.
Edited 2010-10-03 12:45 (UTC)

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, the pumpkin never got stuffed.

The recipe involved disembowlling a pumpkin, cooking the flesh with pasta, courgette, ginger, onion, tomato, stirring in fromage fraise and basil, then serving the resulting casserole up in the cooked pumpkin shell.

I overcooked the shell and it got incinerated, so I just used the saucepan as a serving dish. Didn't quite have the same impression, but it tasted good.

[identity profile] medievalmuse.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yum. That recipe sounds terrific, yet a bit complex for my skill level.

I did make this once, and highly recommend. An acorn squash is the serving dish in this one.

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/9236

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It was obviously a bit too complex for my skill level, too, considering I botched the pumpkin shell bit! It wasn't really difficult to do - just a bit fiddly. I've done far worse - I tried a wonderful recipe once for layers of spinach in cream sauce and tomato/lentil subdivided by individual pancakes, all placed within a round tin which was then emptied out as a solid structure and presented to the table.

It wasn't easy, and I wouldn't have won any prizes for presentation. If I'd set it at the lord's table in the medieval period, he'd probably have fed me to the hounds!

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds lovely, thank you!