Wow guys:  apologies for the long blabsence (”web logging absence”)!  This past week has been a whirl–and not in a good way like a Whirlpool(TM) bathtub, but in a bad way like a regular old whirlpool.  I’m not sure that I can reveal what I’ve been doing this past week.  Perhaps I’ll tell you once I’ve unpacked my safari bags,  pasted the stub of my JetBlue ticket to the Serengeti Plains into my “Illegal African Hunting Safari Scrapbook”, replaced the tire on my jeep, dismantled my elephant gun, cleaned and stuffed my elephant, smeared aloe all over my desert-scorched skin and killed anyone who might suspect that I’ve been illegally hunting elephants in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park.  But probably not.

For now I want to show you what I saw when I was looking for a Pad Thai recipe on epicurious.com:

Welcome back to the Internet, me.