On a sunny summer day, Maria and her daughter Sofia went for a walk across the fields close to their small hometown. They were walking along when Maria noticed a little tree. The tree was producing tiny, white fruits that she had never seen before, she inspect what she discovered.
Maria initially mistook the fruits for animal or bird eggs, but upon closer inspection she discovered they were actually eggplants. Sofia asked with her mother to bring some of the weird, white fruits home so she might cook them.
Since Maria hadn’t ever prepared anything with white eggplants before and wasn’t sure what to do with them, she was initially worried. Maria chose to try it because Sofia insisted on it. A handful of the eggplants were picked off the tree, and she took them home.
Maria got starting to cook in the kitchen as soon as they reached back at their home. In an effort to prepare the eggplants perfectly, she looked up recipes online. She finally decided to make eggplant parmesan, a traditional Italian dish that she had always enjoyed.
The eggplants were thinly cut, deep-fried until golden brown, then covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese and cooked in the oven until hot and bubbling. She and Sofia sat down to eat what they’d made after it was finished.
The eggplant parmesan turned out to be incredibly wonderful, greatly to Maria’s surprise. The sour tomato sauce and creamy mozzarella went nicely with the soft, delicious and delicately flavored eggplants.
Maria made it a point to visit the farm again every summer after that to check on the white eggplant tree. It was producing its peculiar and delicious fruit every summer. They had developed a family favorite recipe called eggplant parmesan, so she would pick a few of the eggplants off the tree and bring them in the house.
The discovery of the white eggplant tree had opened up a whole new world of culinary opportunities for Maria and Sofia. Maria was also reminded by it of the fact that sometimes the most beautiful things can be located in the most unlikely locations.