{"id":2756,"date":"2013-05-26T03:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2018-01-22T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:36:11","slug":"eggplant-basic-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/eggplant-basic-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggplant: Basic Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients<br \/>\n1 medium sized eggplant<br \/>\nLots of salt<\/p>\n<p>Instructions<br \/>\n1. Slice eggplant in about 1\/4 inch pieces<br \/>\n2. Lay on rack, over sink, to drain<br \/>\n3. Cover liberally with salt and let drain 15 minutes<br \/>\n4. Flip and repeat<br \/>\n5. Continue for a total of 2 hours<br \/>\n6. Rinse throughly in running water, followed by rinse in bowl of water<br \/>\n7. Squeeze excess liquid out and press onto paper towl or tea cloth<br \/>\n8. This removes the absorbidity of the eggplant.<br \/>\nNow, you can use it in Eggplant Lasagna or BBQ Eggplant<\/p>\n<p>ANOTHER WAY TO REDUCE THE LIQUID<br \/>\nCut the eggplant into 1\/4 inch pieces<br \/>\nCoat a baking sheet with a light bit of oil<br \/>\nSpread the eggplant out<br \/>\nSpray lightly with oil and lightly salt<br \/>\nCook 400 degrees for 30-45 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Notes Handwritten notes to this recipe are scanned in PDF document at http:\/\/www.xml3.com\/family\/Recipes\/Eggplant.pdf<\/p>\n<p>1. A good eggplant should have no wrinkles and the flesh should give when pressed with the finger, but should completely spring back.<br \/>\n2. Smaller is better. The seeds are more developed and more bitter in older eggplants.<br \/>\n3. Female eggplant has more seeds. Femal will have OVAL navel, and male will have a ROUND navel.<br \/>\n4. Top should be bright green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 1 medium sized eggplant Lots of salt Instructions 1. Slice eggplant in about 1\/4 inch pieces 2. Lay on rack, over sink, to drain 3. Cover liberally with salt and let drain 15 minutes 4. Flip and repeat 5. Continue for a total of 2 hours 6. Rinse throughly in running water, followed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/eggplant-basic-preparation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eggplant: Basic Preparation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}