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I have just been down to the Dun Laoghaire farmers market. I have returned with: three vast aubergines (eggplants - why are they called eggplants?), tomatoes, onions, courgettes, red chillis, button mushrooms, pleurotus mushroom(s)1, brazil nuts, hazelnuts coated in yoghurt, dried cranberries, and artichoke hearts.
Culinary success can only follow a lineup like that. I keep opening my bag to look at the selection inside.
1 I have never heard of these before, but they had them - they're clumps of things like oyster mushrooms, all growing from one stem thing. They appear to be related to the oysters, but cost only about half as much.
Culinary success can only follow a lineup like that. I keep opening my bag to look at the selection inside.
1 I have never heard of these before, but they had them - they're clumps of things like oyster mushrooms, all growing from one stem thing. They appear to be related to the oysters, but cost only about half as much.
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"If you've never seen a pure white egg-shaped eggplant, go look for one at a specialty produce store or farm stand--it truly does look like an egg!"
Saying that an eggshaped eggplant looks like an egg isn't particularly profound, I think. This is interesting though, if it's true:
"Even eggplant's British name, aubergine, traces its root to an Arabic word meaning "eggplant."