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best vegetable ever?

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link

nope

max max max max, Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

got two. gonna stuff them with tomatoes and onions and bake

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

max please explain yourself

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Sometimes they are bitter of the seeds gross me out but I have really learned to like them more in my advanced age. The baby ones in azn foods are usually best.

te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

i like how they taste sort of smoky and i love baba ghanouj. those aren't baby eggplants, they're chinese eggplants btw. i don't think i've ever had them.

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

the best vegetable ever is corn

max max max max, Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link

oh nm i know what you mean, baby eggplants xp

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link

green beans, sorry you are all wrong.

te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

fyi eggplants are fruits botanically speaking

max max max max, Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

tho corn is a grain and not a veggie so i guess im wrong too, botanically

max max max max, Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

if corn being my favorite vegetable is botanically wrong i dont want to be botanically right

max max max max, Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

eh i meant the broad definition of vegetables, not the botanical one. so corn can be a vegetable i guess. i haven't bought any yet this year. maybe next week i will.

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link

max, have you had cancha? it is a great way to eat corn!

Cancha, a popular snack in Peru and Ecuador, is made with a special type of large-kerneled corn called maíz chulpe or maíz cancha chulpe. The dried kernels are tossed with oil and toasted in a hot skillet until they are browned and puffed. A simple sprinkling of salt and the cancha is ready to eat. Cancha is often served with ceviche or a cold beer.

like crack.

te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 12 July 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

my favorite broad definition vegetable is potato chips

lxy, Sunday, 12 July 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i like potato chips too, esp. salt and vinegar

spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 12 July 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

the little ones, not necessarily azn, are good. the farmer's market i go to has them just about every week. there's this dish with tomatoes, breadcrumbs, penne & eggplant that we make sometimes that kicks butt.

t. silaviver, Monday, 13 July 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link

could you post the recipe, t.s., because that sounds like something i want to make.

estela, Monday, 13 July 2009 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=182384

this is almost the exact same recipe, except ours includes 1 1/2 lbs of ripe plum tomatoes, sliced about 1/4 inch thick

so when you get to the part where you are putting the bottom layer in the oven dish, you use 1/2 of the fresh tomato slices for that instead of the sauce, then half the breadcrumbs on top, and then follow the rest of the recipe.then your top layer will be the other half of the fresh tomatoes with breadcrumbs on top.

it comes from a very good cookbook called the flavors of puglia by nancy harmon jenkins that gets a lot of use in our house.

t. silaviver, Monday, 13 July 2009 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link

hey that looks pretty good t. silaviver

spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 13 July 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

yes it does, thank you t.s., i will make it and report back.

estela, Monday, 13 July 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe i will get that cookbook from the library sometime. my eggplant recipe is from "silk road vegetarian," which i am very pleased with. i made a mung bean/lettuce salad from it last night.

spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 13 July 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

I made ratatouille without eggplant last night.

te,he (tehresa), Monday, 13 July 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I love eggplant and am glad to not be alone in this.

jaq, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

stuffed eggplant was pretty good. shoulda been baked another 10 min though probably

spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 18 July 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link


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