my belly...and the things inside it

I haven't made borscht yet but I finally made something edible in my crock pot. I made eggplant-artichoke parmigiana. It was alright, but to be honest not as fantastic as I hoped, a little too sauce-y and I went over board with the capers. Its worth an attempt two though. Here's the recipe:

1 medium eggplant
1/2 t salt
1 14oz jar tomato pasta sauce
1 10oz package frozen artichoke hearts, thawed and quartered
2 T capers, drained
1/2 t dried rosemary
1/4 t pepper

Cut eggplant into 3/4 inch slices. Cut those slices in half and sprinkle with SALT. Alternate layers of eggplant, pasta sauce, artichoke hearts and capers in slow cooker. Sprinkle with rosemary and pepper. Cover and cook on high for 4 to 5 hours.

Then I served it over quinoa and covered it with mozzarella cheese.




On another note this is a picture of my belly after it was attacked by a Medtronic Guardian "soft" sensor.

The sensor that I was trying to use was dysfunctional and blunt! So that when I tried to insert it with my handy-dandy Medtronic "sen-serter" (a little blue tool that is essentially a gun for putting the sensor in my body) instead of smoothly and painlessly slipping under my skin it stabbed me and bounced back. I thought I had done something wrong so I tried again, and the same thing happened. So here I have two soon-to-be bruises on my stomach and the new sensor that I later inserted normally. It didn't really hurt that bad it just pissed me off for a bit, mostly because it meant that I had to waste a sensor.
But now you can see how the sensor looks. The transmitter, which is a plastic piece around the size of a silver dollar, attaches to the back of the sensor... officially making me part machine.