{"id":164,"date":"2007-09-18T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/09\/18\/ratatouille\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T03:33:02","slug":"ratatouille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/09\/18\/ratatouille\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratatouille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"pre-baked\" title=\"pre-baked\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Ratatouille1.jpg\" \/>Yes, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/ratatouille\/\">the movie<\/a>! I loved it. I thought it was so much fun. I liked the family dynamic of the rat colony, and how the skinny redheaded kid gained confidence and built character&#8230; and, Gusteau was so cute, and what a great motto &#8211; Anyone can cook!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d found <a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2007\/07\/rat-a-too-ee-for-you-ee\">this recipe<\/a> even before I saw the movie, and afterwards I was inspired to try it. Now is the perfect time of year, when eggplant, zucchini, and fresh herbs are plentiful at the farmer&#8217;s market &#8211; I&#8217;ve been trying to go once a week this summer, and it&#8217;s been really fun to get such fresh yummy veggies that are all local and mostly organic. Very cool. I highly recommend this recipe &#8211; especially if you&#8217;ve tried making ratatouille in the classic simmer\/saute method before. I have, and it was nothing to write home about. But this one&#8217;s a keeper! It&#8217;s really easy, too. The only trick is cutting the veggies as thin as you can. And, it&#8217;s flexible. My veg slices weren&#8217;t all the same diameter, so I just layered them in rows (or rounds, as in this pie dish) and it looked great. I like to eat pretty food, especially if it&#8217;s not a lot of work to make it look pretty. That&#8217;s the nice thing about cooking with lots of vegetables &#8211; it&#8217;s effortless to make it colorful. This recipe calls for goat cheese, but we used sour cream instead. Something about that creamy finishing touch, mmm &#8211; magnifique!<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Hot out of the oven\" alt=\"Hot out of the oven\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Ratatouille2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I saw the movie! I loved it. I thought it was so much fun. I liked the family dynamic <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}