Caponata for Bears

We can haz Bears! Despite upheavals, our visitors have arrived, and I have cooked caponata for them. If you asked me, I would say I used the recipe in Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book, but I don't follow it all that faithfully - she suggests, for example, that you cook the celery and aubergine separately, thus using three saucepans instead of one - and on this occasion I wandered further than usual from the text. Since it worked, I'm writing it down while I still remember what I did.

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