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Skriven 2008-09-16 23:07:36 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: Eggplant 903
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-12-08 14:58 <=-

 ML> I've heard conflicting reports about whether to get ones that
 ML> are heavy for their size or light for their size. I tend to go
 ML> for the latter, but the main criteria are shine and lack of
 ML> weird wrinkly or brown spots and a nice green stem.

I guess I don't usually think much about the relative weight of the
specimen, but I do look for, as you do, the shine and the lack of weird
wrinkly or brown spots... :)  

 ML>> You could have had a less bitter variety. In my experience, chiles
 ML>> tend to accentuate bitterness if anything.
 NB>> Possible on the less bitter.  I don't think that these chilies were
 NB>> accentuating any bitterness, though... they are the little soft green
 NB>> ones in the little can... some taste and a little heat.  

 ML> Ho, those hardly count!

True.  Which is why I actually was mildly amused that my friends made
such a big deal about my being able to "take the heat".  But apparently
they had had lots of experience with others who thought it MUCH too
spicy-hot to be able to ingest.  I just thought it quite tasty.  :)

 NB>> Reading the recipe, I could about taste it...!  Must be REALLY about
 NB>> time to get back to the dimsum restaurant!   :)   (And hope that
 NB>> they've got some eggplant on the cart... 'tisn't always there...)

 ML> You could ask for them ... I think the name is "chieh-dze."
 ML> Not "shieh-dze," which is shoes.

It's also listed on their dim sum menu (which one has to use if one
comes too late for the carts to be making their rounds, or during the
week, when the carts don't make rounds), so I could always just point to
it there... ;)

 -=> Nancy Backus said to Janis Kracht <=- 
 NB>> I have the first Moosewood cookbook, along with several others by
 NB>> Mollie Katzen (who is the younger sister of one of my high school
 NB>> classmates), but have never been to the restaurant.

 ML> Was your classmate Joshua, played the cello, became a lawyer and
 ML> moved to Boston? I met him at a chamber music party once long
 ML> before I heard of the restaurant.

Yes, indeed... he was...  :)  I didn't really know him very well in HS,
as I moved to Rochester just in time for my senior year, and didn't even
take all senior-year classes, so didn't even meet probably half my
classmates...  but I think we were in at least one class together... and
he did show up for a recent reunion or two of our highschool class... :)

 ML> Butter a gratin dish and alternate layers of eggplant in
 ML> tomato sauce with layers of meat, starting and ending with
 ML> eggplant. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 220C/450F for
 ML> 30-35 min.

A French version of moussaka, perhaps...??   ;)

ttyl     neb

... Eat prunes for that "get up and go" feeling!

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