Food 07 Sep 2006 05:42 pm
local food: solar oop
Holy… Okay, see, when I wrote that Eggplant Oop recipe? I guess I’d been eating a lot of hot peppers right around then. I just made a batch for dinner, and let me tell you, five cayenne peppers is a lot. A lot. Yeeeoowwww.
I tried making it in the solar oven this time, and it worked pretty well, though not brilliantly; I still had to start and finish it on the stove. This batch seems eggplantier than I’m used to. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I’m used to eggplant being more of a garlic delivery device than much of a presence of its own.
To cut the heat: Microbakery bread (locally made from locally-milled flour by Larry, my favorite farmers market guy), killer Rama Farms organic nectarines, Appel Farms quark. I had no plans to buy nectarines today, with my plum tree as loaded as it is, but when I overheard one of the market volunteers calling her friends to tell them that Rama was there with nectarines, I knew they were something special.