you would not believe how much i pay this guy

According to GFD Internat'l Inc. LLC Ltd.'s chief safety consultant, I could have run for my camera to try to get a photo of the flames instead of putting out my recent toaster-oven fire.


Although that's not exactly how he put it. In GFD CSC's words, "If there is a fire in the toaster oven, just unplug it and leave it alone; don't put anything on it or do anything else. The toaster oven is designed to contain fire. Whatever is in there will burn out without your doing anything. Most of the fires that happen are when people open the flaming oven to try and put out the fire."

So there you have it. When your toast catches fire, STEP AWAY from flaming oven. Fetch camera. Take photos for bl*g.

today's theme: chocolate desserts made by other people

Because I'm getting lazy. Which is what happens to old ladies. First the memory goes, then the bladder, and finally the will to bl*g. Luckily, GFD reader JFON whipped up a batch of Mexican Chocolate Pudding after reading about it here and sent photos.

JFON found the pudding easy to make and delicious, but he somewhat belligerently refuses to call it pudding: "I realize that it technically is a pudding because it does not have either eggs or cream in it, but its consistency to me is much more like a mousse, so I'm calling it a mousse."

I present to you JFON's Mexican Chocolate Don't-You-Be-Calling-It-Pudding Mousse.