🌐Green Peppers and Eggplant. The Two Great Towers. | Daily Slips and Trips

Because I had restrictions on what I could eat due to illness, and because I was reducing my portion sizes per meal to lose weight, I have been living a vegetable-centered life.

And one of my favorite vegetables is the green pepper.

When I see a large bag of green peppers at the supermarket, before I even think about whether I can finish them living alone, I start planning how to eat them all and put them in my basket.

As for how I like to eat them, I split the green peppers in half lengthwise, remove the seeds, stir-fry them in oil, add bonito flakes, and then add soy sauce and stir it all together. Just doing that makes the rice go down easily.

Another vegetable I like is eggplant.

Often, when I see a sign at the supermarket saying how much one long eggplant costs or how much five of them cost, I suddenly stop in my tracks, and I even feel like putting back the vegetables already in my shopping basket just to buy those eggplants.

During my shopping trip at the supermarket the other day, I was lucky enough to get both.

That day, for that very reason, when I was about to make dinner, I was trying to take the vegetables out of the refrigerator.

In the vegetable compartment, there were green peppers and eggplants. In the refrigerator compartment, there was tofu and some ground meat I had bought the day before.

I had an idea. Creative cooking. Alright! I'll use this to make my favorite spicy vegetable stir-fry! That's what I thought. I was told that olive oil is fine, so I used that.

I stir-fried the ground meat and set it aside on a plate, then stir-fried the eggplant and green peppers, returned the meat, and added the tofu. To that, I added a little ponzu, sake, and doubanjiang, and finally thickened it with a starch slurry.

I thought it looked quite delicious. I was thinking, 'Good, good.'

When it was finished and I looked at it closely, it was a mock mapo tofu.

It was delicious. There was no mistake about that. It was my favorite flavor. But when I had just imagined it in my head, I intended to make some 'wonderful, amazing food,' so when a 'mock mapo tofu' turned out, I found it somewhat funny.

When I was a child, I didn't like green peppers or eggplants. I find it strange that I like them so much now.

After entering junior high school, perhaps my aversion disappeared, and as I tried eating them, I gradually became able to eat them.

And now that I love both green peppers and eggplants, I felt a little proud of myself for being able to eat them. I felt like I had become an adult.

It was quite a while ago, but at one point, a magazine article said, 'Green peppers have been improved through selective breeding, and thanks to the efforts of farmers, they have become easier to eat.'

At that moment, the mystery was solved. I see. Oh, I see. It wasn't that I had evolved; it was the vegetables that had evolved. That is what I thought.

However, it really didn't matter which one it was.

Since I like green peppers and can eat them deliciously, it doesn't matter either way at this point.

That's how I feel about it.

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