For the Jedi it is time to eat as well. Eat, eat. Hot. Good food, hm? Good, hmm?

*ahem*  My dad took me to have breakfast at Cracker Barrel this morning, aww.  They now have a breakfast casserole on the menu like the one that they discontinued 10 years ago, so I ordered one of those, and plenty of biscuits and gravy, of course.

In other food news I’ve been searching for the perfect sweet/spicy/sour Chinese eggplant recipe.  I still haven’t found it.  I made this and it was OK I guess.  At the beginning I sprinkled the eggplant cubes with salt and soak them in water for 30 minutes to drain out the bitterness.  I’ve tasted the results of not doing this; it is pretty dreadful.  Also I replaced garlic powder with pressed garlic and like, quadrupled the amount, and added a generous helping of green onions.

In my last cooking post I said I was a sloppy cook, but I do recognize and honor cases where detail makes all the difference.  Hard boiling eggs for example.  Now that I’ve learned to make them perfectly by boiling them for exactly 8 minutes and then dunking them in ice water, I’ll never go back to being careless about them.  Gross grey outer yolk, your days are over!  I feel like the eggplant must be a similar case.  I imagine there’s some minute detail that preparers of eggplant do without thinking and so don’t bother to mention in a recipe that keeps the eggplant skin deep purple and keeps the eggplant meat white inside even while the outside is browned in sauce.  You’ve had perfect eggplant; you know what I mean right?

I would be eternally grateful to anyone who can point me to a perfect sour/sweet/spicy eggplant recipe or share their eggplant secrets/tips.  Maybe I’d even bake you Wookie Cookies.

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