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Rant: I’m sick of the eggplant hoax. I was just looking up an eggplant lasagna recipe (instead of noodles).
The first instruction was to salt the eggplant to remove the bitterness. This is a clue that the writer does not know what she is talking about.
If an eggplant is bitter, nothing can be done to fix it. Toss it out. I’m not a fan of salting to draw out moisture either. The one time I tried that, the dish was so salty, it was ruined, so I never do that either. I fix eggplant about once a month. I bake it for eggplant Parm most of the time, because it absorbs so much oil when I fry it.
I normally don't like eggplant, but I made a recipe for eggplant meatballs that is just outstanding. The secret to getting the moisture out is using a nut milk bag (used to squeeze liquid out of almonds and other nuts to make nut milk and available on Amazon for less than $10). I cube the eggplant first, then cook it, cool it and put it in the bag. Then you squeeze till the water stops coming out. There's only about a palmful of eggplant left afterward, but it's the perfect moisture level and density. I use 4 or 5 eggplants to make a couple of dozen meatballs. No bitterness at all, so I have no clue what that author was talking about.
I also use the bag to squeeze the liquid out of spinach for recipes, for zucchini bread, and cauliflower for cauliflower mashed potatoes (I use half cauliflower, half potatoes).
Blackberries were on sale at Publix today. $.99/6 oz. box. We opened the last jar of last year’s homemade blackberry jam a few weeks ago. I have the berries mashed and macerating with sugar for a couple of hours before I start making jam. I found new lids I had bought last year, so I’m good to go.
Blackberries were on sale at Publix today. $.99/6 oz. box. We opened the last jar of last year’s homemade blackberry jam a few weeks ago. I have the berries mashed and macerating with sugar for a couple of hours before I start making jam. I found new lids I had bought last year, so I’m good to go.
A new recipe and it turned out even better than last year. I made sourdough English muffins to test it on. The only downside is the purple splatters that I keep finding.
Are there any good cooking shows on TV anymore? I gave up on the Food Channel because I want to see chefs making things, not fools dumping cheese sauce over their heads, or making dinosaur cakes.
Are there any good cooking shows on TV anymore? I gave up on the Food Channel because I want to see chefs making things, not fools dumping cheese sauce over their heads, or making dinosaur cakes.
Are there any good cooking shows on TV anymore? I gave up on the Food Channel because I want to see chefs making things, not fools dumping cheese sauce over their heads, or making dinosaur cakes.
Food Network shows cooking shows every weekend morning, but I don't know if that's what you'd consider "good"
I just tried a box of Manischewitz potato pancake mix. They were very good and quick to make.
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