Let's talk Eggplant...

Isn't that a beautiful color? There is no purple like that of an eggplant. This one is not shaped like an egg, it's namesake, but it has a plumpness about it that encourages picking, but wait, not quite yet... if one is to make stuffed eggplant, it should be a bit larger in size.
Peanut-stuffed eggplant is a delightful recipe and I will share that with you as soon as I find it. It may have come from the Vegetarian Epicure. I may just take a look at one of my new cookbooks for an updated version. I could just stick with eggplant parmesan. Everyone loves that? I would not have grown any eggplant this year, but my son asked me to. I'm wondering if he will eat any of it, or if he just wanted to admire its smooth purple exterior hidden beneath a cap of leafy green.
When I was young I read a lot of books and dreamt of things like cream puffs and split pea soup only because the words rolled off my tongue. Oh how I loved to think of the day I could be eating exotic foods. Not that I don't appreciate the foods of my heritage. I LOVE the way Germans from Russia cook. But, I also developed a taste for fresh fresh food. I experimented with presentation - which of course goes pretty much unappreciated.
There is as much art and beauty in a vegetable as in anything else in the world. Even something as unfamiliar as eggplant can make you stop and smile - that is if you can find it in the shadows of the plant that bore it.