[Jamestown1630]

This month: Eggplant - or whatever is burgeoning in your garden.

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-JT

[kalee]

Eggplant rollatini is my favorite! I try out new recipes all the time.

[Libloather]

Just tried some BLT macaroni salad. Good summertime treat.

[ifinnegan]

L’Aubergine!

[Blurb2350]

I love eggplant — of all things. The simplest recipe is to dip 1/2” slices in egg and fry like french toast. Very tasty — but only if you like eggplant. Many recipes call for eggplant to be sprinkled with salt, wait, then drain. Way too much trouble! The slender Japanese eggplant are delicious in a stirfry.

[TianaHighrider]

Sounds yummy❣

[dgbrown]

1/4 “ slices, salt, hot pepper flakes or ground cayenne, very light drizzle olive oil and grill until browned. The heat from the peppers makes the eggplant shine.

[Albion Wilde]

I used to go to a lot of trouble making eggplant parmigiana, dredging eggplat slices in egg and Italian breadcrumbs, frying in olive oil and then putting them in a casserole dish with tomato sauce and mozzarella to bake. It’s become not only too much trouble, but too many calories.

Now, when I periodically make my two gallon pot of tomato sauce (also known as tomato gravy in Philadelphia), and if eggplants are in season, I chop a large one up in one-inch chunks and stew it right in the pot with the tomato sauce.

When it’s soft, take it out with a slotted spoon and sort it into individual serving containers. (You can let the rest of your pot of sauce go on cooking for awhile, as desired.) Spoon a little more sauce on top of the eggplant chunks and a good sprinkling of Italian bread crumbs, and dot with fresh mozzarella.

Heat one up in the microwave to eat right away, and put the rest in the freezer to microwave in the future.

[Moonmad27]

Thanks for that eggplant recipe! Please add me to the ping list.

I’m making some good use of this COVID time by focusing on WW (formerly known as weight watchers). I heard radio talker Mike Gallagher and his 50 pound loss on it, and a friend has lost 40 pounds since March. As for me — Fifteen pounds gone since mid-June so far, due to one of their three plans, a program that focuses on healthy food - veg especially - and eggplant is one I want to try!

[Sacajaweau]

My eggplant is slow this year...Can’t wait.

[Sacajaweau]

I grew round eggplants, dipped strips in egg and bread crumbs and made French Fries. Great to snack on at the computer.

[leaning conservative]

I used to make baba ganoush(so??) a lot back in the day. Now I’m inspired to make it again after reading this.

My mother in law gave us an instant last month when we visited MA. I told her about this thread & all the instant users on it. Thinking I’ll start using it in September.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Last week I made squash pickles, and wickles (hot sweet pickles). I can’t eat either but the children/grandchildren like them.

This week I’m making “Mother Chappell’s Ripe Tomato Pickle”. Fabulous over black eyed or field peas. (Mother Chappell was my great grandmother and I had her until I was 19.)

[pugmama]

Love Yotam’s cookbooks. New one “Simple” is great.

https://www.foodgal.com/2018/11/yotam-ottolenghis-roasted-eggplant-with-anchovies-and-oregano/

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[Liz]

Lawsuit: Chipotle Keeps Change, Without Customers’ Consent
Dailypoliticalnewswire.com ^ | August 21, 2020 | Keely Sharp
FR Posted on 8/21/2020, 10:54:59 AM by Red Badger

According to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Chipotle is keeping change from customers’ orders, without their permission. The rounding up on tabs in some Chipotle chain locations has quickly added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from customers.

Yikes! Lawyer Frank Salpietro said he believes this is a move by corporate bosses: “It has become very clear that this is a top-down directive from the corporation, this is how they should handle the situation.”

Fox News reports:

The state attorney general’s office has received at least seven complaints, reports said.

Corporate bosses are likely behind the move, a lawyer told the station.

One customer in Hampton, Pa., said she received $4 change on a bill of $15.51 instead of receiving $4.49 after paying with a $20 bill, KDKA reported. A restaurant employee simply withheld the remaining 49 cents, she claimed.

Another customer, in Pine, Pa., received $11 change on a bill of $8.72 instead of receiving $11.28 after paying with a $20 bill, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

“What we’ve learned is that they are telling people after they order their food and give their money to the cashier that they don’t have any change so they are not going to be able to give you the change,” Salpietro continued.

He added that he thinks the restaurant will use the so-called national coin shortage as an excuse, but he said that he isn’t buying that.

“I understand that the pandemic is affecting all of us,” Salpietro added. “But that doesn’t give Chipotle the license to line its own pockets at the expense of consumers, particularly when you hide behind a coin shortage to justify taking more money than you should.”

Such actions can hurt customers who are struggling to make ends meet, according to KDKA.

There was no immediate response from the restaurant chain.

I don’t see this ending well for the Mexican grill.

[Liz]

Lawsuit: Chipotle Keeps Change, Without Customers’ Consent
Dailypoliticalnewswire.com ^ | August 21, 2020 | Keely Sharp
FR Posted on 8/21/2020, 10:54:59 AM by Red Badger

According to a new lawsuit filed on Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Chipotle is keeping change from customers’ orders, without their permission. The rounding up on tabs in some Chipotle chain locations has quickly added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from customers.

Yikes! Lawyer Frank Salpietro said he believes this is a move by corporate bosses: “It has become very clear that this is a top-down directive from the corporation, this is how they should handle the situation.”

Fox News reports:

The state attorney general’s office has received at least seven complaints, reports said.

Corporate bosses are likely behind the move, a lawyer told the station.

One customer in Hampton, Pa., said she received $4 change on a bill of $15.51 instead of receiving $4.49 after paying with a $20 bill, KDKA reported. A restaurant employee simply withheld the remaining 49 cents, she claimed.

Another customer, in Pine, Pa., received $11 change on a bill of $8.72 instead of receiving $11.28 after paying with a $20 bill, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

“What we’ve learned is that they are telling people after they order their food and give their money to the cashier that they don’t have any change so they are not going to be able to give you the change,” Salpietro continued.

He added that he thinks the restaurant will use the so-called national coin shortage as an excuse, but he said that he isn’t buying that.

“I understand that the pandemic is affecting all of us,” Salpietro added. “But that doesn’t give Chipotle the license to line its own pockets at the expense of consumers, particularly when you hide behind a coin shortage to justify taking more money than you should.”

Such actions can hurt customers who are struggling to make ends meet, according to KDKA.

There was no immediate response from the restaurant chain.

I don’t see this ending well for the Mexican grill.