I've always had a love for food and cooking. I can recall helping my parents cook in the kitchen and making chocolate chip cookies for my family from a recipe out of one of my first cookbooks as a child. I have been a vegetarian for several years now (although I still eat fish) and since then I've been trying out all kinds of new dishes. Going sans meat has allowed me to explore new cuisines and I've found a new love for Mediterranean and Indian dishes. Vegetarian Chili, Spinach Lasagna, casseroles I was making a butternut squash soup and using a blender to puree my ingredients. Somehow the plastic top of the blender cap slipped through and fell into the blender while it was on! I thought I did a good job straining out the plastic bits, but while eating the dish I realized that wasn't the case. What a mess! The soup itself was great though :)