Dried Whole Eggplants and Zucchini for Stuffing

At the height of summer, when lovely small eggplants and monster zucchini are thick on the ground, fire up the dehydrator and dry as many whole ones as you can. There are few cold-weather meals more satisfying and easy to accomplish on a dark evening after work than Turkish-style rice-and-meat-stuffed vegetables, but those dried vegetables, unless you make them yourself, are difficult to come by; I’ve actually seen them for sale here only once, and they were not cheap. The reconstituted dri