{"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’ll Make It Myself!: “Together in the Kitchen with a Whole Bunch of Eggplants: Eggplant Curry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em>The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>. A writer and web administrator for <\/em>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a>, ze also writes <\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates The 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

New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to L.M. at\u00a0jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This time on \u201cwhy did I buy a whole box of this vegetable?\u201d: what to do with six eggplants?<\/p>\n

Cheruko is harvesting eggplants<\/a>\u2013many, many eggplants. They brought 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 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 Summer Pasta with Eggplant Sauce<\/a> because the eggplant is cooked down a lot.)<\/p>\n

Click HERE to read more.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 & Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t