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Eggplant is not a family favorite.
Flavorwise, the ratatouille was pretty decent, but overall, there was no hiding the main ingredient.
Actually, that was one of the intentions of the recipe…“A really good ratatouille is not one of the quicker dishes to make, as each element is cooked separately before it is arranged in the casserole to partake of a brief communal simmer. This recipe is the only one we know of which produces a ratatouille in which each vegetable retains its own shape and character.”
For today’s post, I thought we could play a game: Can you match the quote to the family member?
a) Is all of the eggplant gone now?
b) Of the ways one can eat eggplant, this is not bad.
c) It would be good without the eggplant.
d) Yum, no I’m just kidding, eew!
e) I’m no Julia Child.
f) If you have to cook eggplant, this is definitely the way to do it.
g) You are not going to feed this to my friends, are you?
h) Fail!
i) If I’m going to spend this much time cooking something, it ought to have chocolate in it.
j) Just how nutritious is eggplant, anyway?
See answers tomorrow….
You may have noticed that some of the comments were slightly positive (b) and (f). If you like eggplant or at least don’t actively dislike it, then this may be a great recipe. Here is the link again: http://knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/cooking/Ratatouille-condensed.pdf
Fun, a game. I wanna play. My guesses:
a. Anne – in a 14-year old tone of voice 🙂
b. Sounds like something Patrick would say
c. Anne
d. Ginevra – I can imagine her saying it.
e. Karen or Patrick – actually more Patrick than Karen
f. Anne – as in IF YOU HAVE TO COOK EGGPLANT….!!!!!
g. definitely Patrick
h. Ginevra or Anne – adults can rarely pull off using this word in a cool way!
i. Karen
j. Ginevra
Not too bad! You know us well! Thanks for playing my game! I love games…answers tomorrow!
By the way, Anne has agreed to take one for the team and eat the rest of ratatouille in exchange for 1 of our precious non-local dollars. She has a gift certificate for ice cream at a local place ($5) and needs $1 more in order to get a half gallon of birthday cake ice cream. (We told her she couldn’t use her own money). For those of us not living close enough to enjoy Thomspon’s Special Homemade Ice Cream, it’s a luxury. So for however much she complained in the quotes, she’s still willing to eat the eggplant…Of course, she added cheese and balsamic vinegar to it…I wonder what Julia would have to say about that?
What’s birthday cake ice cream?
It is a most un-locavore item – ice cream that is flavored to taste like raw cake batter with colored sprinkles and frosting mixed in. It is totally yummy in an artificial manner…but not as good as your salted caramel ice cream!
Aaaah! Great minds think alike. It’s called cake batter ice cream here…which happens to be my blog subject from Tuesday. The kind I made had sprinkles, but no frosting mixed in. I guess I’m making it again with frosting.