Japanese Eggplant purchased at the downtown farmers's market. Experimental Kitchen.

Theobroma cacao

Along with a Cacao plant (above) and some homemade bread (not impressed).
I prepared the eggplant this morning in my electric stainless steal
skillet, added some pasta sauce and EVO. Great!

A lasting memory when I was about twelve years old. Our neighbor , Mrs.
Guest grew her own Eggplant and not the Japanese variety. She would
bread and fry hers and when I grew my own and tried to prepare it the
same way it was not crispy but mushy. Needless to say it didn't go over
well with the family. Even back then I wanted to introduce new foods
or recipes.