Hallooooo~~
I did a cooking fail today. >v<
Yeah, it's about the eggplants. I gave them a second try today.
I wanted to because a few weeks ago, a good language partner of mine gave me an amazing site where they have all kinds of Chinese recipes (and not only Chinese, he also told me there were European recipes, even though I can't find them on the site..)
It's called Meishij. I think it's a goldmine.
For some reason, it reminds me of Recettes du Québec. I made a lot of desserts from recipes of this site when I was younger, and most of them turned out excellent.
The site is only in Chinese, but there are pictures to help you and there's always Google translate.
Anywho, I searched for some eggplants recipes on the site, and found this one.
From the pictures, it looked a lot like the ones I had in Taiwan. And the recipe seemed simple.
Actually it was more of a disaster.
I'm not even gonna describe the steps cuz I believe it was on the limit of being edible and I don't want you to do the same steps as I did (actually I just wanted to post the pictures to show my fail.)
Well, first, my dish really doesn't look like the one in the recipe. Mine looks like my mother's chop suey. I got nothing against chop suey, but.. heh. I guess I didn't use the same kind of eggplant as in the original recipe (but I've only seen one kind of eggplant here in my life, and it's the one I used).
As for the taste: quite spicy (because of the 豆瓣酱 doubanjiang) but except the spiciness, taste is very bland. First try eggplants tasted way better.
Thing is, I don't even know where in the recipe I made a mistake. >∀<
I did left the eggplant overnight on the counter because I had bought it yesterday (at about 6 pm), so maybe I should have cooked the eggplant right away when I bought it.
I'm gonna end this sad post with somewhat of a nice picture of my eggplants... doesn't look that bad here at least.
But this experience will not really keep me from trying other recipes on Meishij. So it's all good.
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