What I Did This Weekend
On Saturday, MR and I went to Michael's where I spent way too much money. I got the stuff to make this wreath (among many other things):
MR, Liz, and I had an awesome dinner at Red Lobster, even though we had to wait forever.
This morning I was excited because Sudoku is now in our paper! My addiction can live on!
Today Chris and I went to the Baltimore Zoo, which happens to be right in the middle of the ghetto:
We saw cute animals:
Then we came home!
Upon our return home I learned that I don't like eggplant. I tried to make fried eggplant and it was pretty nasty. 95% of the nastiness was my fault, but I didn't like the taste anyway. I tried to redeem it by melting some parmesan cheese on it, but that actually made it worse.
posted by Jenny G @ 10:12 PM
7 Comments:
Great pictures!
Thanks! I can't take credit for them though. Chris took them because he shares his camera about as well as a 2-year-old would. :-)
I like the wreath.
Eggplant: Yuck. I see no point to it. :-)
Ok, first? Love the wreath. I miss making them. I haven't made one since last Christmas. Very pretty.
Second, eggplant is yummy! How did you prepare it? One trick if you're making cutlets to fry is to salt the slices and
set them between layers of paper towlels. Then for each layer set a dinner plate on top to act as a press. This will help extract and mitigate some of the bitterness. Did you use the bulbous style eggplant? Or Japanese? The Japanese eggplants tend to be much milder (though I really like the bitter flavors) and are quite tasty if stirfried and put into a ginger sesame sauce, with yakisoba noodles and cabbage and carrot shreds and extra-firm tofu. And now I'll stop being a big fat know-it-all of eggplant.
omess: Paranoid much? Oh well, at least you didn't wake me up last night :-)
kate: Thanks and me neither :-)
katie: Thanks also. I've never made an outside wreath before, so I wasn't prepared for the elements, and now parts are scattered all over the front porch. I'll have to whip out the glue gun this weekend. It was supposed to be batter fried eggplant. You were supposed to mix yeast and hot water and let it get foamy, which it never really did (I learned from Alton Brown the next day that my water was probably too hot, killing the yeast. I didn't even know yeast was alive; my ignorance of the workings of yeast is one of the reasons why I rarely use it.). Then you were supposed to add that to flour, salt, and pepper, and fry it. The batter stuck to the bottom of the pan instead of to the eggplant, which was fun to clean. I didn't prep the eggplant in any way except to cut it. It was bulbous, not long, so I guess it wasn't Japanese. The bitterness is what bothered me, so maybe I'll give it one more chance and try eggplant parmesan and do the salt trick. Thanks for the advice :-)
Huh, that's an interesting idea - yeast for it. That's a new one to me. I have good luck with a milk & egg mix and then dip in bread and/or cracker crumbs. It's messy but delicious. I have terrible luck with yeast stuff, too, so you so have my sympathy about that.
That's what I should have done, but I wanted to try this way. I got it out of an Italian cookbook. Everything else I've tried from that book has been good, so I think it's just me and the yeast.
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