For volume - PC, you just put some stuff in, and blend it. If the result is runnier than you had in mind, you add more stuff. If it is too lumpy, you add more liquid. Ta-dah!

Also, avacados. Which, with salt and pepper, are my new favorite snack.

In a rather more pleasant recipe idea than my earlier one, You can make a wonderfully fattening dip by cutting an avocado in half, removing the pit, scoring the flesh, putting crumbled blue cheese in the pit hole, pouring a bit of blue cheese dressing over it all, and then baking in a 350F oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the blue cheese starts to brown. Then scoop out the goodness onto crackers or toast rounds.

Intriguing!

I have been contemplating learning how to use a blender lately, but I don't want to do it while recovering from surgery.

Has the oral surgeon told you what to expect? Because recovery from wisdom teeth extraction is no big thing that's going to derail your life.

Polter-Cow, I support the slim-fast idea! Add some higher calorie food into the general mix to keep your strength up. I am always in favour of chocolate milk. Ice cream also good. (And I've just read that you stocked up on all those things and more, so never mind - you'll be fine.)

Deena, I hope everything goes OK with your husband's job.

Health food shops are great for wheat replacements. I don't have celiac, but wheat gives me migraine - these days I like the rice/millet/corn mix pasta more than the regular stuff. Oooh and the rice flour lemon cake you can get my local health food shop is to die for... Hmm. I'd say it was time for a visit to the high street, but it's back in London and I'm up at uni. I wonder if the lemon cake is worth the four hour drive. It's not outside the bounds of possibility.

An almost-all-food post. This is what dieting does to you.

Deena!!! Also {{{Deena}}}!

Morning. Gronk.

Question to dress-making people:

So, if a person wanted to make a backless dress with a built-in bra, using a bra they happen to have to hand (which is suitable to the purpose) then...that should be a doable thing, right?

(When I say "make", here, I should clarify that I actually mean "ask the tailor to make".)

I second that gronk. {{GC}}

I saw a few days ago that your spouse had a meeting of some sort that made her nervous, but I somehow missed how it went. Is all well there?

and found out the hard way at a party vw was throwing that not all blenders come apart the same way. Oops. And sorry again about the mess.

Poor frank was so traumatized by this event, and I just so didn't even care. It was REALLY not a big deal. I mean, he was making margaritas! Would could possibly be wrong with that? It took one little twist and all was better. We still had margaritas, so I put it in the win pile!

I'd say "no" to Slimfast. It tastes like ass.