Goodies from my produce box for dinner tonight!
I totally winged it on the eggplant- had wanted to make the deborah madison recipe recommended on the eggplant thread but my oven wasn’t cooperating today (deep sigh) and i had just used my tomato paste and canned tomatoes for lunch soup.
Anyways, sautéed with garlic, black vinegar, soy sauce, and then added in cubed firm tofu and let it do its thing a while. Finished with some toasted sesame oil and sesame seeds, cilantro on top. Very tasty!
The carrots were really sweet and had such a great flavor i wanted to eat them raw. Used my peeler to make a salad thing tossed in a red wine dijon heavy vinegrette, some scallions, sunflower seeds and capers (my jar of capers seems to fill again when I’m not looking! Seems to be an endless supply of them)
Thanks, It’s an old Masterbuilt electric smoker I bought in ‘08. It’s lived way longer than expected. I’ve wanted to upgrade when this one dies but it just keeps going
When I was in CA earlier, the mushrooms were abundant and cheap and organic at the asian markets. Tonight I looked longingly at a 5.99 box of maitake that I bought for 1.49 not that many days ago…
Thanks. The high fat content does result in an unctuous end result that’s hard to screw up. The belly was obviously thin and was on the smoker at 250-275 for a good hour yet the texture was excellent
Sometimes I think I buy sides of salmon and or steelhead for the belly