Summer Garden Ratatouille- Improv

This morning I went out to the garden to see what was growing which would determine what I would cook tonight.  I had eggplants, chiles, green peppers, basil, rosemary, marjoram, and radishes among other things.  I consulted my Simply In Season Cookbook and found this:  Summer Garden Ratatouille (p. 125)  I absolutely LOVE the layout of this book.  Not only is every recipe amazing beyond belief but it is laid out in seasons.  This layout makes sense to me since I know it is healthier and better for my body (and less expensive) if I eat what is in season.  I took what I saw from the recipe and revised it:

The original recipe calls for summer squash and says to serve it over pasta.  Keep the squash and pasta in the recipe if you like those things.  We don't eat much pasta because I don't feel my best after doing so.  We added ground turkey and radishes. I rarely ever follow a recipe exactly because I never have all the ingredients.

Here is what I made:
1 large onion (chopped)
5 garlic cloves (minced)  (I personally hate mincing so I just throw them in whole.  So far, no one has                                    complained.)
1 medium eggplant (chopped)
handful of fresh basil
handful of fresh rosemary
handful of fresh marjoram
2 green, yellow, red peppers (cut in strips)
2 cups tomotoes
5 radishes (chopped)
1 lb. ground turkey

Saute the onions and turkey til onions are soft and turkey is cooked.  Pour everything else in the pan and stir fry.

In tonight's meal, of these 9 ingredients (minus the turkey), six I grew.  Only 1 was from a can.  And it tasted amazingly FRESH.

Here was Kevin's exact remark: "This is a keeper.  Share it with others on your blog.  If you keep cooking like this or if you teach me how to cook like this, eating healthy will be easy."
Umm....so I guess he liked it!