Tonight, I am combining two fantastic traditions: #MeatlessMonday and the 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative. #MeatlessMonday is my weekly commitment to show you a delicious way to eat meat-free once a week while the 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative is where Shawna Coronado grows the vegetables and I turn them into a dinner for four for under $11.50.

#MeatlessMonday is all about getting more healthy fruits and vegetables into your life and what better way to do it than with produce fresh out of Shawna’s (or your) garden?  So maybe for this #meatlessmonday (or next), I hope you’re having:

Fried Zucchini Napoleons, Cucumber Salad, and Mashed Beets

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Okay, we’re back for another delicious installment of the 2009 Nude & Eco-Cheap Cooking Initiative.  In case this is your first time, the walking gardening encyclopedia, Shawna Coronado, is (obviously) the gardening pro.  She grows veggies in her garden and then she sends them to me so I cook them.  This arrangement works out well since if we were relying on my green thumb to feed us, well, we’d be ordering a lot of take out.

Forunately, we’re not.  So to show off the fruits (well, vegetables) of Shawna’s labor, we’re making

Eggplant Green Curry

Shawna's July Bounty

Why?  Well, because when Shawna gives you eggplant, you make curry.  It’s a rule.  Look it up. 

See, just yesterday she sent me the pic you see to your right.  There is so much in that picture I want to cook with, I hardly know what to do with myself.  But, first thing’s first.  When I saw that eggplant, I knew I wanted to cook it and eat it.  So I decided on eggplant curry.

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