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.
Mixed Greens // Aug 30, 2008 at 2:50 pm
The eggplant in the second picture doesn’t look split. Do my eyes deceive me?
Mango and Sticky Rice // Sep 1, 2008 at 11:00 pm
yes, optical illusion!