Tastes Like Food

Last night when I went to visit my plot at the Whittier Community Garden, I found that I had an eggplant ready. cool! Except, I’ve never cooked eggplant. Growing up on a farm in Ohio, we ate sweet corn and green beans. and tomatoes… not eggplant.

So I decided to get crazy. (I’m on the 4th night of my husband being away, after all.)

I started with this. (looks pretty good, huh?)

I split it in half, dropped a little bit of oil on each side, and sprinkled salt and pepper. Then off to the grill it went.

Success! It was easy and yummy.

side note: Beside the eggplant is a ground turkey burger I pulled out of the freezer. I stole this recipe from Whole Foods. One day they were grilling these burgers in their parking lot. And they are so nice about listing the ingredients for everything. So I got out my pen. To the best of my memory, it’s:

• ground white meat turkey
• green curry paste (about 2 T. per pound)
• coconut milk (to keep it moist)
• cilantro
• green onion
• lime juice

I over-cooked the turkey burger, so I poured some left over pesto over it.