Postby Young Val » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:01 am
Dearly Beloved,
We are gathered here today to say our goodbyes to my most frequently used kitchen utensil: Oxo Good Grips Silicone Flexible Turner.
SFT, I have no words. You were truly the best spatula I've ever owned. Pancakes, quesadillas, stir-fry--you were there for me. Perfectly-flipped over-easy eggs every. damn. time. Your weight, your width, your balance...you were a thing of beauty. Truly the most versatile of all culinary tools, your precision was unparalled.
I am lost.
All the eggs I've made since you passed....disasterous. No other spatula handles the way you did. When I'm cooking now, I reach for you...and you're not there. Your absence is like a dull, rusty knife in my heart. In the four years we spent together I did some of the best cooking of my life. I'm just no good without you, baby.
When you get to Kitchen Heaven, give my love to FP (we still haven't properly replaced him). I hope you can take comfort in one another, but I shall never get over the holes you've left behind.
you snooze, you lose
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant