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Yes... Jicama is much better than eggplant in curry. Though it was actually a bit too crisp... Ah well. The other vegetables (besides peppers) were tomatillos and celery. Apparently I'm craving green food this week. *shrugs* I'd never made curry with pork before (not sure I'd even tried at at Sri Thai), but it was quite good. Next time I will try to slice it a tiny bit thinner. At any rate, I've got enough curry to last most of the week, if not longer. I forget how filling things cooked in coconut milk are.

Which reminds me... The low-carb fad has definitely gone beyond the bounds of reason. On the coconut milk can was a bright yellow sticker: "A low-carb food!" Anyone who actually reads their food labels knows that coconut milk is mostly fat, so, yeah. Duh. Not quite as ridiculous as putting a low-carb label on a can of cooking oil, but pretty close.

In other news, I finally found the screws to my vacuum cleaner. It tried to eat a wadded up paper towel (drifted while I was using the attachments), which set the belt smoking. It hadn't quite broken through when I looked at it, but a slight tug did the trick. I couldn't put it back together until I remembered to buy a new belt, and by the time that happened, I had misplaced the screws that hold the bottom plate in. So this morning I cleaned out some nearby junk piles and, lo and behold, four screws. So it's no longer in pieces in the hallway. :-D