Late-summer crops are always full of memories. Perhaps because I spent so much of my childhood summers in Louisiana with my grandparents, or perhaps just because summer cooking took over my grandmother’s life and filled her house with the steamy Read on!
1/2 cup brown rice vinegar scant 1/3 cup fine-grain natural cane sugar or brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes or 1/2 fresh red chile, minced 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil Read on!
“I’m craving eggplant,” Stephanie said, exactly two minutes before Katie arrived with a big basket of Tecolote Farm’s gorgeous purple-black teardrop shaped black beauty eggplants, and the squatter, chunky, purple and white variety too. Tecolote’s eggplant is never bitter, Read on!
• 1 pound eggplant, sliced ½” thick • olive oil • 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped • 1 clove of garlic, peeled and finely sliced • 1 teaspoon dried oregano • 1 pound fresh ripe tomatoes, peeled and Read on!
• olive oil • 1 pound eggplant, cut into large chunks • 1 teaspoon dried oregano • salt and freshly ground black pepper • 1 small red onion, peeled and finely chopped • 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely Read on!
2 1/4 cups finely diced, peeled eggplant 1 teaspoon coarse salt plus more to taste 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons safflower oil 3 tablespoons minced shallots 4-6 potatoes Pepper 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter Place eggplant in a Read on!
1 pound eggplants, preferably small light purple ones 1 medium onion, minced 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 1/2 cups plain whole milk yogurt Salt and pepper, to taste Pinch cayenne or Aleppo pepper or other mild ground chili powder Read on!
4 to 6 small to medium eggplants, or 1 large one, about 1 1/2 pounds Salt 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 2 tablespoons soy sauce, or to taste 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1. Trim eggplant, and cut Read on!
1 (1-lb) eggplant, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 cups chopped braised lamb, leftover pot roast, or cooked ground beef 3 cups short tubular pasta (about 10 oz) such as Read on!