Cook What You've Got

Cannibal Eggplant.  Kind of sounds like Hannibal Lecter and actually has a lot in common.  More on that to come.  In the meantime, see if you can guess which of these is that varietal?
I learned a lot about eggplant during our jaunt at Wild Boar Farms last week.  I knew there were tiny green eggplants, both fat, round and long, thin purple and the white/purple striped ones.  But yellow, orange and various versions of other colored...

TEN DOLLARS!!!!
That's how much this incredibly colorful 15-20 lb haul of heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and cucumbers was when we visited Wild Boar Tomato Farm this past weekend.  In. Sane.
That's the beauty of going TO the farm.  Even better than a farmers' market or a CSA box. You cut out any middle man and get Chez Panisse and Michael Pollan worthy produce for pennies!...

"Half Empty" or "Half Full"? Which one are you?
Depending on the circumstance, I can be both.
With this pan of chocolate chip bar cookies, I'm definitely thinking "Half Full"

Boasting a questionable reputation (among boys especially), beans are not exactly the glamour girls of the food world.  Cranberry Beans (or Borlotti) may be the exception.
Naturally clad in a cream and fuschia-speckled cloak, the snowy white and hot-pink spotted beans are not only pretty, but they are easy to work with (which actually is the exception among glamour girls, too!)....