Recent dishes

If you're wondering what I did with yesterday's harvest, I made ratatouille:

I'd never tasted ratatouille before, much less cooked it, so I was unsure what to expect. I altered the recipe a bit, to suit my tastes and available quantities of ingredients. Verdict: delicious! Seriously, I'm stunned. Lots of good flavors. I think I'm getting the hang of this eating-vegetables-thing. Because it looked like a pile of plants, I tell you; to every fiber of my being, it looked like a pile of plants. But it actually tasted like food. I used the ichiban eggplant (long and thin), and its dark purple skin turned green while cooking. Ratatouille would be great over pasta or rice, but I enjoyed mine plain.

As for my gargantuan zucchini? Oven fried zucchini sticks, just as planned. I used the most basic recipe I could find, based on the ingredients I already had in my kitchen. This was, surprisingly, amazingly delicious. I was concerned, not being the biggest squash fan. I did not peel my zucchini because I do not discriminate against skin, but I must say, the sticks without skin were the best. But the skin did keep the sticks with skin from breaking. Mmmm:

I ate the whole plate.