i want to thank luisa from ‘the wednesday chef’ for posting her scrambled eggs with shrimp dinner.  her dinner wasn’t pretty.  nope, not even a little.  and she knew it but was real about the situation on the plate including the fact that it tasted really good.  because the truth is that life isn’t always pretty, right?  and in the case of food – who cares?  ok, let me rephrase… who cares all the time?  we’re home.  we’re hungry.  and we’re out of parsley.  parsley does tend to help a bit.  it’s the lipstick of food…

last night i threw dinner together quickly.  i started with 4 of my 9 csa cucumbers.  they were peeled and sliced and tossed with green onions, chili flakes, white vinegar and turbinado sugar.  i had leftover steak from the night before and decided to use all my japanese eggplants and 1 of my 4 butternut squash.  so this one dinner alone used up a bunch of produce which was excellent!

the eggplants got sliced and grilled on my stove with minimal olive oil.  the squash was simply peeled and steamed.  cary did a thin cut on the steak – and all of it got sauced with an on the fly mix of white miso, turbinado sugar, mirin and a 2 year shoyu (aka soy sauce).  lucky for all of us i had some black sesame seeds to sprinkle around.  but hey, still kinda not so pretty…

but good?  very.