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[Zeedman]

Anyone have a good way to preserve eggplant?

We grow & freeze the skinny Asian-style eggplant. We steam them whole - stem attached - until fully cooked. After cooling, we peel them, and freeze them in a single layer on a cookie sheet (parchment will make removal easier). Once frozen, we remove them from the cookie sheets & vacuum seal them in meal-sized portions. We freeze them stem-on because our favorite way of eating Asian eggplant is slit lengthwise, spread into a fan, battered, and fried... it is a really good finger food for our family gatherings.

 

[Zeedman]

Recipe please...

Straight out of the Ball Blue Book... but I strain out the dill seed while filling the jars, and use more garlic. DW & I both love that pickled garlic at the bottom of the jar.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Not from the garden, but I canned 11 pints of pork and then 10 pints of white beans with ham cubes on top. That's 21 meals for us this winter.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

We grow & freeze the skinny Asian-style eggplant. We steam them whole - stem attached - until fully cooked. After cooling, we peel them, and freeze them in a single layer on a cookie sheet (parchment will make removal easier). Once frozen, we remove them from the cookie sheets & vacuum seal them in meal-sized portions. We freeze them stem-on because our favorite way of eating Asian eggplant is slit lengthwise, spread into a fan, battered, and fried... it is a really good finger food for our family gatherings.

That sounds amazing!

I wonder if that would work with black beauty egg plants but cut in to strips and steaming? I'll have to try.

I made eggplant parmesan for dinner tonight and roasted the extra slices and put them in the freezer.

 

[flowerbug]

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Anyone have a good way to preserve eggplant?

it apparently will keep forever around my middle... *sigh* i love eggplant, especially egg-plant parmesian...

 

[flowerbug]

That sounds amazing!

I wonder if that would work with black beauty egg plants but cut in to strips and steaming? I'll have to try.

I made eggplant parmesan for dinner tonight and roasted the extra slices and put them in the freezer.

babaganoush is made from roasted eggplant. not sure it can be made satisfactorily from frozen or not... but if someone were to make it i would be one person who would be willing to try it.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

babaganoush is made from roasted eggplant. not sure it can be made satisfactorily from frozen or not... but if someone were to make it i would be one person who would be willing to try it.

I made a double batch last week and ate it all! It's like hummus but eggplants instead of garbanzo beans. I blended mine till it was pureed.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

it apparently will keep forever around my middle... *sigh* i love eggplant, especially egg-plant parmesian...

We had eggplant parmesan for dinner tonight. It was good!

 

[Zeedman]

We made the first batch of gherkin pickles last night. For those who like crunchy pickles, I can't recommend Liso Calcutta gherkins highly enough. They are sweet & super crunchy raw too. The Grandson is growing some in his little garden, and loves them.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

Made 8 Q jars of Annie's salsa and 4 Q jars of tomato sauce .

Also made barbeque sauce using ball book recipe. It made 2 P and 12 jelly jars. This was all from today and I am tired.

For dinner I made bean and vegetable soup with gluten free coen bread that we topped with rhubarb barbecue sauce. It sounds weird but it's delicious lol.