Garlic Eggplant Stir Fry
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Eggplant that melts in your mouth with a slightly sweet sauce that make you want to reach for seconds! I love the small eggplant—you don’t need to peel them and what a fabulous blend with reconstituted dried shitake mushrooms. Don't forget the liquid from the shitake mushrooms--add it to the sauce. It's a great secret ingredient.
This is an expandable recipe open to so many yummy vegetable options like fennel, broccoli or carrots. Serve over rice or try rice noodles for a change. Be sure to get out the chop sticks!
Foodie Lit
Laurie Boris told me it was both fun and terrifying to write her dystopian novel, The Kitchen Brigade. There is a long history of these novels, perhaps the most famous is Orwell’s 1984. These are grim views of the future.
Laurie places her main scenes in the kitchen. She explained, “I liked the focus of the kitchen because of the universality and the comfort it creates. It transcends language and cultural differences. It’s a refuge as well as a hotbed of conflict.” A frightening look at a future we hope will never come.