A marriage between eggplants.
This will become some kind of dinner this evening. I took out a freezer bag of pureed tomatoes a couple of days ago and I plan to make sauce. The two will merge in one form or another, as the eggplants did with one another. Mark wants me to make eggplant "meatballs". He loves them and it's been several years since I made them. I used bread crumbs I made from homemade spelt bread and I have told Mark that is what helped make them the way they were. I need to make spelt bread, if I don't he will be disappointed. I'm not making bread until we lose the humidity. Often it's one ingredient that makes all the difference.
That man loves zucchini sautéed with garlic, onion and tomatoes. He raved about last evenings dinner, which was no more than panfried white fish, farro and the all important flavor fest he really likes. So easy to please. He is a food motivated person. He grew up on a dairy farm in SW Minnesota, the middle of ten children. He never went hungry but it seems he didn't feel he ever had enough. He thought I was beautiful, dear man, but what really grabbed him was I could cook! You really could not have found two people more unsuited to one another than the two of us. If not for his stubborn persistence, it wouldn't have worked. Yet here we are, old-ish, one of us infirm and overweight, the other not. Whatever he saw physically is gone, but I still can cook. Proof there has to be more. He's still a nerd!
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He sounds like a catch! I wonder if he longed for more interesting food. Big families often go for filling nutrition but flavors come second and spices often nowhere! He sounds very happy now anyway.
Boud, I think you are right. He got from me things he never heard of. We grew up in completely different places and different cultures. It turned out he was what I needed, an anchor, a stabilizing force, the nerdy math guy. I brought some crazy into his life. Maybe more than some! We get along quite well, amazingly well. As long as I cook, he'll happily eat.
My husband asks me when I am going to learn how to cook like some of my fiends are able to do.
And I point out that he didn't marry me for my cooking, but because I was an adventurous spirit.
Your plates look amazing.
My hubby has limited veggie likes and only wants ... Meat & Tators.
Your foods look so pleasing too!
So nice he's so appreciative of your wonderful food. I am too! Still dreaming of that cantaloupe ice cream (and trying to duplicate it, with mixed success) and the beautiful simple duck egg omelette you made for Sabin and me. I can't wait until my duck lays an egg! Yes, I think only one of my four ducks is a girl, but one egg a day will be enough.
julocka, I haven't reproduced that ice cream, either. I am fascinated by your ducks!
Val, I'm not adventuresome, not like you, that's for sure. It's hard to cook for someone who won't eat anything but meat and potatoes and probably only wants those in a limited way!
You make a good couple...something must have worked! Your food is very interesting. :)
Oh, oh Far Side. I'm from Minnesota, I know what Interesting means. The same as Bless Your Heart in the South!! :)
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