{"id":26726,"date":"2012-08-20T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=26726"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:41:19","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-together-in-the-kitchen-with-a-whole-bunch-of-eggplants-eggplant-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/20\/ill-make-it-myself-together-in-the-kitchen-with-a-whole-bunch-of-eggplants-eggplant-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: &#8220;Together in the Kitchen with a Whole Bunch of Eggplants: Eggplant Curry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<em> A writer and web administrator for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajkanazawa.com\/\"><strong>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa &amp; Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a><em>, ze also writes <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com\/\">I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>,<em> a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to L.M. at\u00a0<strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/img_2449.jpg?w=490&amp;h=367\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time on \u201cwhy did I buy a whole box of this vegetable?\u201d: what to do with six eggplants?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hkexpatcooking.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/04\/vegetable-garden-challenge\/\">Cheruko is harvesting eggplants<\/a>\u2013many, many eggplants. They brought <em>eleven<\/em> of them to dinner a couple weeks ago to distribute, and I took six. My go-to recipes when I am cooking for myself are Italian- and French-style dishes that\u00a0 pair the eggplants with tomatoes, basil, and parsley: ratatouille, gratin, vegetable lasagna. When I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alone-Kitchen-Eggplant-Confessions-Cooking\/dp\/1594483132\">alone in kitchen with an eggplant<\/a>, these are the dishes I make. However, the texture of these dishes is, unfortunately, precisely what our spouses dislike about eggplants. (Though mine does like <a title=\"Fit for a Dinner Party: Summer Pasta with Eggplant\u00a0Sauce\" href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2012\/06\/15\/fit-for-a-dinner-party-summer-pasta-with-eggplant-sauce\/\">Summer Pasta with Eggplant Sauce<\/a> because the eggplant is cooked down a lot.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2012\/08\/12\/together-in-the-kitchen-with-a-whole-bunch-of-eggplants-eggplant-curry\/\"><em>Click HERE to read more.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa &amp; Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[392,742,452,743,451,744],"class_list":["post-26726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-cooking-in-japan","tag-eggplant-curry","tag-homemade","tag-japanese-eggplant","tag-recipes","tag-spciy-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42763,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726\/revisions\/42763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}