Eggplants

You don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.

Our sister bought some eggplants, potatoes, zucchinis and Chinese cabbage at the market.

So many tasty foods can be prepared with eggplants!

Wash the eggplants and cut off the ends.

Sami put the eggplants in the fridge.

The eggplants looked so beautiful that I couldn't help but buy one.

In the dining room, Lilya had some vegetable soup and potatoes with stewed eggplants.

At the cafe the rainy day after Halloween of 2021, Hans the Netherlander mentioned to me that Italian food was "acquired taste" for him. He mentioned the method of tenderizing octopus and the way the ink complimented the dish. I mentioned the black squid ink spaghetti. I said that I liked all seafood, including octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, which made him squirm. Then, I mentioned that I liked moussaka, a Greek lasagna-type dish with eggplants. Hans said that as a Netherlander, he liked "plain meat and potatoes." But Netherlanders do eat raw herring.

Rows of cabbages wind beneath passion fruit vines, and tiny red eggplants rub shoulders with the spikes of a rare type of leek.

Ziri grows the eggplants you see here.