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When you write about Michelle’s ability to fuse together flavour and textures Matt the one recipe that comes to mind, is the rosemary caramel corn. It is a classic example. Who would’ve thought, that rosemary would work with sweet caramel sauce but it does brilliantly. It’s our favorite popcorn recipe.

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the girl has talent and I agree, what a classic recipe

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Yum 🤤 I love eggplant as well.

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that scene in Forest Gump where Bubba talks about all the diff ways to cook shrimp? That’s me with eggplant.

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Matthew Holloway

Makin memories with Pops. Do it as often as you can,you'll REALLY cherish them later in life.

(A Texan who lives eggplant... I would never have guessed that one! 😄)

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Lmao! It really is a versatile vegetable isn’t it?

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Matthew Holloway

I love this story! ❤️

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Everyone in our family lols when they reminisce about my dad’s affinity for eggplant, I think it’s endearing. Dude has a tender heart and good palate.

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The pic of you and your dad has me 🥹 This is an awesome post and so excited to try this recipe. I like your family.

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Love the story, your dad sounds pretty cool. And if your goal was to make me want this recipe so damn bad I preorder the book, congratufuckinlations - order placed!

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It’s all about tapping into your favourite food when you were a child. Congratulations for seducing your dad. It reminded me of a movie we saw recently about a French dessert chef called Sugar and Stars.

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Food talk initiates all kinds of ideas lol

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It’s weird all this talk about eggplant 🍆 and I was picking a couple of things up at the grocery store and I saw a nice basket of persimmons. So now we’re having the buckwheat persimmon pancakes for brekkie tomorrow. Might as well seize the short window of persimmon season

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Mash up the lyrics in Paul Simon’s song, “60 ways to leave your lover” to “60 ways to cook your eggplant”. Not sure Paul Simon would like the lyric mashup lmao!

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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

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