Unknown Garden Veggies

Unknown eggplant variety

With such a warm spring and, now, long hot summer, we are having an extra long growing season for Minnesota.  I always plant a garden and sometimes my exotic choices like okra and eggplant can't really mature in our usual window of growth.

However, this year the eggplants are already ripening on the vine.  Problem is . . . I don't recognize this variety as any kind of eggplant I know!!  I know the big, firm purplish eggplant we can find in the co-op, or the skinny little purple ones I grew last year, but here is an eggplant of a different shape and color.  No, these are not tomatoes--they are eggplants.  They have a lovely shade of orange-yellow with subtle stripes of green.  I hope these are ripe and I shouldn't have waited for them to turn another color.  Once I can identify them, I can figure out how to cook them!  If you know the variety or have a recipe for preparing them, I'd sure appreciate the help.

Here is this year's first big, ripe tomato sitting on the deck railing.  Last year we had lots of good luck with tomatoes, too.  These were the heirloom tomato variety.





Okay--I promise not to blog about vegetables for awhile.