[Sca-cooks] Seljuk/Rumi/Sufi Cuisine

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:22 AM, Terri Morgan wrote:

>> A little exercise here: name a slimy food, please.
>> One that actually contains or is covered with, slime.
>> Arguably, okra? Zucchini? The last raw oyster I touched,
>> it was what was known as wet, what with having been
>> in the ocean and all...
> 
> Fried eggplant.
> 
> (yeah, yeah, I know, 'it's all in the cooking'. But I was forced to eat
> badly-fried, absolutely slimey eggplant as a kid and now, 45 years later, I
> still can't bring myself to try to make anything with eggplant, even when I
> intellectually know that it won't be the same as that horrid stuff I was
> forced to eat so long ago.)

I'm not a big eggplant fan myself, and they can exude a small amount of mucilaginous goo when sliced. And they can also absorb a lot of oil in cooking, and release it at inconvenient moments.

For me the problem of the bitter little seeds (and traditional "proper" treatment seems to partially, but never fully, alleviate this) is paramount.

Adamantius 






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