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Skriven 2013-09-01 05:49:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: eggplant 79
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 RH> I'd just rather buy the smaller ones, even if it means having more
 RH> peeling and chopping.

Understand. But unless I want a soft homogeneous dish,
I don't bother to peel anyway.

 I'll also get them at the farmer's market over
 RH> the grocery store, given a choice. Found a couple of recipies I want to
 RH> try with eggplant before the season ends, a couple of varients on
 RH> moussaka tho they won't taste anything like I had at Dimitri's earlier
 RH> this summer when we visited the Shipps.

Don't recall Dimitri's moussaka except that someone or other
had it at an echo picnic, and it might have had potatoes.
 
 ML> absorbed by the flesh. I found the sport eggplants
 ML> unreliably tenderer and less tannic than the big purple
 ML> ones; the Asian varieties are more likely to conform to
 ML> expectations.
 RH> Yes, and they are common at the farmer's market.

Ah, farmers' markets - I don't get to them often; missed the
one in Williamsport yesterday by 8 hours or so. The eggplant,
when I see them, sometimes amuse, tempt, even seduce me. I
was particularly taken once with a white one that looked
like a big egg. Don't recall it tasting any different, though.
 
 ML> I suppose that those with chest freezers have the best of
 ML> both worlds.
 RH> (smug grin)

All right, you can envy me my travels, and I will envy
you your kitchen equipment.

 ML> I deleted the written unwritten rule but am considering
 ML> reinstating it!
 RH> He's posted the recipes several times, the bread in the last couple of
 RH> months.

I know about the bread; didn't recall any really notable
(c)h(o)um(m)us recipe from you guys or anyone recently.

 RH> These are big horse (oval) pills; I don't recall the strength listed
 RH> but only 2 more to take before the blood work.
 
Scrip only? I still think that 1/8-1/4 ts of salt
substitute in a glass of water is a cheap and powerful
supplement, safe enough if you don't take much more
than that.

Saint-Pierre et sa ratatouille
cat: fish, main
servings: 4

5 tomatoes
1 onion
olive oil
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 pn sugar
s & p
1 zucchini, diced
1 eggplant, diced
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
4 filets of Saint-Pierre (John Dory)
fish fumet
1 Tb cream
200 g butter
fines herbes

Peel, core, and seed the tomatoes; dice them fine.

Peel and mince the onion; sweat it in 1 Tb
olive oil. Add about 3/4 of the tomatoes, the
garlic, and the sugar. Correct seasoning. Cook
10 min. Add the zucchini, eggplant, and pepper.
Cook 10 min; correct seasoning again and keep hot.

Poach the fish in the fumet; drain and keep
warm on 4 serving plates. Distribute the
ratatouille among the plates.

Reduce the fumet until it coats a spoon; add
the cream and reduce again. Thicken with butter;
then add the remaining tomatoes. Sauce the fish
and strew with fines herbes.

L'Auberge du Pere Bise, as quoted in Francois
Werner, Grandes Cuisines, corrected to reflect
how the dish is actually presented.

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