Stuffed Miso Eggplant • Steamy Kitchen Recipes Giveaways (2024)

I got a nice surprise in yesterday’s mail – a copy of Where Women Cook: The Heart & Soul of Cookingpublished by the lovely, lovely Jo Packham. It’s a quarterly magazine sold at retail stores (most bookstores and I think I saw it at Costco and Target too), featuring women passionate about food, their kitchens and their stories.

This month’s cover also features another friend of mine – Robin from Southern Fried Fitness.You’ll love her style – 80% healthy, 20% indulgent and 100% Southern. This woman is just pure good energy!

The magazine features photos from our property and my two boys. That week, I had made a stupid deal with my kids, which resulted in letting them SHAVE THEIR HEADS. Unfortunately, Ihad totally forgotten about the scheduled shoot. The boys wanted the photographer to shoot them holding our hens.

So great. We look like food blogging, skinhead chicken farmers! LOL At least the kids were wearing shirts and shoes.

Also in the magazine is one of the very last photos taken of Papa, Scott’s dad who passed away a few weeks ago. Mimi and Papa were visiting from Buffalo when the photoshoot took place, so naturally they were part of our story and shoot. He was smiling sweetly at Mimi, with a drink in his hand — just like I want to remember him.

There’s a shot of my garden too – just when we started it in February. We had planted corn from seed – most of the seedlings were 4″ tall except for ONE. The seedling in the middle of the plot shot up past its brothers and sisters to 2 feet. They’re all the same variety, from the same seed envelope. Some mutant corn!

It’s fun to see pics of my garden when we first planted and realize that the little eggplant seeds that we spread out turned into 4 monster plants with more eggplant than any family should have (the secret is our awesome 3-day compost!) I can’t give enough away – I’ve been stuffing them in the pockets of my friends when I give them hugs. Makes for funny looks from other people, especially given the shape of the Asian eggplant!

So our recipe this week that I’ve developed this recipe for my client, Miso & Easy, is Stuffed Miso Eggplant. My girlfriend Kelly’s mom (her name is Sandy) used to cook her eggplant this way (well, without the miso) and when Kelly came over last Monday, we made this in honor of Sandy.

The eggplant is hollowed out – and the eggplant innards (ugh, I hate that word to describe food) flesh (that word is yuck too) insides are added to the ground meat stuffing, which makes the stuffing soooo incredibly moist and juicy.

Stuffed Miso Eggplant Recipe

Recipe developed for clientMiso & Easy, a company who makes miso in an easy to use bottle. You can use either Miso & Easy or regular miso paste that you can find in most grocery stores (usually sold in Asian aisle or refrigerated produce section).

Here are the ingredients that you’ll need. If you can’t find the small, skinny Asian eggplant, go ahead and use the big ol’ fat globe eggplant. Your stuffed eggplant halves will just be big ‘n fat! 🙂

You can either use Miso & Easy or regular miso paste. If you’re using regular miso paste, add 1/2 teaspoon of mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine). Substitute for mirin: 1 teaspoon white wine + 1/2 teaspoon honey

Cut each eggplant in half and using a teaspoon to hollow out. If you’re using a fat globe eggplant, use a tablespoon instead.

Just scrape slowly – but don’t discard the innards! You’ll be adding that to the ground meat mix.

In a frying pan or saute pan, cook the ground meat, onion, garlic and eggplant innards.

Add the miso (and the mirin if you’re not using Miso & Easy)

Lay the eggplant on a baking sheet.

Spoon in the filling.

Bake and top with fresh basil.

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