Egg Plants

[Texan]

I grew a lot of egg plants this spring and summer. I lost a lot of egg plants this year just because we could not eat them. Can they be frozen? Maybe sliced and froze?

I am going to step up my gardening this year due to the fact that I now have a 3 point tiller and can till a lot more. In fact I am going to till up an acre of land as soon as its dry enough to. I do need to be able to store the produce though.

 

[vfem]

I mixed some with zuchinni this summer and summer squash and did stir fry in large amounts and then split it up and froze it into one meal bags for the freezer.

I also shredded some with onion and green pepper and froze that to cook in the morning as an omlet fill.

Like you, one plant gave me TOO much eggplant for this family since I'm the only one who eats it here. I gave away a good dozen or 2, and I still have about 12 I need to pick before I remove the BUSH from my garden.

Good luck!!!

(Ps. - Make and freeze some stuffed eggplant.... make a stuffing mix with the eggplant middle, old bread, herbs and maybe some sausage... then stuff it in the hollowed out eggplant? Freeze each one and serve it as a side dish for Thanksgiving?!)

 

[HiDelight]

crank your oven up to 450 and then poke a hole in the eggplants (you better not forget this or it will go off like a shot gun in the oven)
put your eggplants on a roasting pan and roast the snot out of them ..cool them down and then toss in a zip lock bag for later use ..you can make all kinds of dishes out of roasted eggplant but the best and my favorite is

Baba Ganoush (spelling please correct me if I am wrong)

and this is a pinch and toss recipe
and btw you can freeze this but it is better to make it fresh from the frozen cooked eggplant
toss in the food processor

about 4 cups roasted eggplant (peeled)
juice of a great big lemon
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup or so of tahini
salt and fresh cracked pepper
and a handful of fresh parsley (or cilantro or mint)
you can add some sour cream to this but I dont
eat on toasted pitas

 

[oberhaslikid]

This is how I taught my Dh to eat it.
Brown in skillet 1 LB. ground sausage over med heat
I add chunked up about quarter size chunks of 1 onion
2 green peppers chunked up the same way
1 medium size eggplant cut into chunks
and put all in the skillet with the sausage and let cook together adding 1 jar of spaghetti sauce.I add about 1/2 cup water and 3/4 cup of instant brown rice and let all simmer together for 6-7 minutes and turn heat off and let the rice finish cooking in covered skillet.