Have I ever mentioned how much I hate eggplant? I can recall being served eggplant in my childhood, and every memory raises such revulsion, I have hardly ever partaken of eggplant as an adult, and only when it would have been unforgivable bad manners to refuse. But I never enjoyed it.
That is, until last summer, our first year of the CSA. We received little baby eggplants in our CSA box about this time last year. I sneered a bit, but I had committed to trying to use EVERYTHING we got in the boxes, so I looked for recipes to use the hated eggplant. And found what looked like a reasonable recipe for ratatouille. So we tried it. And it was heavenly. Even with the eggplant.
We received eggplant in our box last week, just before we headed out for 2 weeks of vacation at the family cottage, so the eggplant (and other veggies) came with us to the cottage. Tonight, I made a highly adulterated version of that ratatouille, and it was……heavenly. It is not the pure French recipe for ratatouille, I’ll warn you, but it is seriously scrumptious—it tempts one to crawl into the casserole to lick out the last molecule of delicious goodness. This recipe is good for about 10 people, or for some leftovers—and I’ll give you a suggestion for the leftovers at the end. Continue reading
My Sister's Kitchen 