Cookbook Club – Holiday Year in Review 2021 Our December Cookbook Club is traditionally a year in review event where we pick recipes from any of the cookbooks we’ve used that year. But because of COVID we were only able to gather for about half the year. That meant we had fewer cookbooks to choose…
Tag: Eggplant
Sticky Asian Eggplant
My favorite kind of eggplant is the long thin Asian variety. They are so good in this sweet garlicky sauce. Guessipe 2 Asian eggplants, sliced into angled 1-inch thick pieces 1 tsp salt 1 TBSP corn starch Neutral oil SAUCE 1 TBSP kecap manis 1 TBSP soy sauce 1 TBSP brown sugar 1 TBSP water…
Ahhh Comfort Food
My friend Heather threw a comfort food dinner party, which meant lots of dips and spreads, mac n cheese, grilled meats, and s’mores… it generally involved a lot of eating with your hands. And eventually progressed to sipping wine by her amazing fire pit. Sign me up! Dips and Spreads We started with an array…
Baba Ganoush
Many years ago, I had an incredible Baba Ganoush (eggplant spread) at a friend’s Sukkot celebration, and I have since done my best to try to recreate its creamy, smoky goodness. This eggplant spread is great with pita bread or both raw and roasted vegetables. Guessipe 2 medium eggplants 8 cloves garlic 1/4 cup lemon…
Spicy Eggplant with Pork
Spicy Asian eggplant is a pretty common dish at Chinese restaurants. This is my re-creation of it, with pork added, because what’s good without pig is even better with it. This can be done more simply by skipping the salting, cornstarch coating, and frying of the eggplant – just sautéing it with the pork instead….
Grilled Asian Eggplant
I love grilled foods, though I have to admit that it is one of the types of cooking I feel a bit timid with. I know it’s applying heat in a way not so dissimilar from the stove, but I suppose it’s not being able to adjust the heat in the same way that makes…
Miso-Glazed Eggplant
Cookbook Club – Lucky Peach Bonus Recipe The thing that I really liked about the Lucky Peach Presents 101 Easy Asian Recipes cookbook was that the recipes were so simple (see all the dishes from the Lucky Peach Cookbook Club event on my Cookbook Club site). The Miso-Glazed Eggplant sounded great, and epitomized simplicity. For…
Eggplant Caviar
Cookbook Club – Think Like a Chef For May’s Cookbook Club, we did Tom Colicchio’s Think Like a Chef. I chose the Eggplant Caviar. Go to my Cookbook Club site to see all the amazing dishes our home chefs put so much effort into creating for the event. For now – my dish! There is…