Eggplant bounty

[jackb]

Our freezer is full of eggplant parm, we have jars and jars of marinated eggplant. We have had breaded eggplant sandwiches for lunch several times a week. The mailman will be furious if I leave more eggplant in the mailbox and still they keep coming. I picked these this morning and I will be hiding when Theresa comes home from shopping so I don't have to face her. The only good thing about them is that it does not take long to fill the basket, and there are many more on the plants.

 

[AMKuska]

Eggplant is the one vegetable I can't even bring myself to try. When I was a kid one of my friends farted, took a big wiff, and said "Mm! Smells like eggplant!" I just haven't been able to make myself even get one to try since then.

 

[Smart Red]

I find that taking part of my surplus to a place that helps the needy with groceries makes letting it go -- not letting guilt have me spending more time working with it in the kitchen -- easier on the conscience and more worthwhile.

Tuesday mornings I spend taking people shopping through our local center.

 

[ninnymary]

We have a local food bank where we take surplus fruits and veggies from our gardens. Do you have anything like that close by?

I love eggplant, especially in asian dishes.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

Jack you need chickens they love garden surplus

 

[jackb]

Jack you need chickens they love garden surplus

Thanks for the suggestion I appreciate it, but being vegetarians we have little use for chickens.

 

[jackb]

We have a local food bank where we take surplus fruits and veggies from our gardens. Do you have anything like that close by?

I love eggplant, especially in asian dishes.

Mary

We have a few pantries in the area but mostly they take canned goods and unopened dry food products and they open one-day per week. We had a replacement mailman and I forced three eggplants on him along with several cucumbers. Next, I am tracking down a lady who walks her dog past the house late in the afternoon. And, I have Theresa looking for recipes for Asian eggplant dishes. We did Indian a few days ago, but it was a little spicy for us. I have received orders from headquarters not to plant so many eggplants next year.

 

[ninnymary]

Are you in an area where you can put them out with a free sign?

Mary

 

[jackb]

Are you in an area where you can put them out with a free sign?

Mary

That would definitely work, but I would prefer to choose who got them. Theresa went to a Farmer's market at the local Agway last Sunday and said they had a few small eggplant and that they were expensive. When I told the mailmain to take as many as he wanted he kept saying: "are you serious?" He was a nice young man so I felt good about his getting them. He hesitated to take even one at first.

 

[Nyboy]

Find a Italian restaurant and see if you can barter, so many eggplant for dinner credit, if you grow basil offer that too