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End of Summer Recipe: Grilled Eggplant Topped with Goat Cheese and Tomato

Sometimes the simplest thing are the best. This is especially true at the very end of summer, when tomatoes, eggplant, and other late vegetables are finally in their prime. A quick weeknight meal ca...

Harvest Braising: Romano Beans With Baby Eggplant
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 9.02.09

Struggling to use up those tomatoes and eggplants? Try a one-pot braised dish like Tomato-y Romano Beans with Baby Eggplant. We've also got a recipe for those "squishy" tomatoes. Plus, was Julia Child...

Recipe Review: Roasted Eggplant Caviar from Good Food

We heard a description of this recipe on an episode of Good Food a few weeks ago and knew we'd have to try it. Not only did eggplant "caviar" sound like a perfect dinner party appetizer, but it would ...

What Is Your Favorite Way To Cook Eggplant?

Yesterday I showed you these cream and violet eggplants, which, believe me, I cannot wait to eat. But we are all curious: what is your favorite way to cook an eggplant? Do you have a favorite recipe f...

Best Garden Surprise: Fairy Tale Eggplants

How are your gardens growing? We haven't forgotten about gardening here, even though we haven't talked much about it lately. Here's one of the best surprises from my little garden this summer: eggplan...

Recipe Redux: Pasta alla Norma

Remember our somewhat unsatisfactory attempt at the Pasta alla Norma from Cook's Illustrated? Well, based on your suggestions, recommendations, and encouragements, we decided to give it another go. As...

Recipe: Goat Cheese Tart with Roasted Eggplant, Zucchini, and Caramelized Onions

This week, Dana reflected on influences, particularly those restaurant meals which inspire us in our own kitchens. This is a dish influenced by my own recent visit to the Porthminster Café, a b...

Recipe Review: Pasta alla Norma from Cook's Illustrated

We knew immediately upon opening the July/August issue of Cook's Illustrated that we would have to make this dish. We're recent converts to the clan of eggplant-lovers, and the description of carameli...

Laurie Colwin: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

Many small-apartment dwellers dream of a spacious, well-appointed kitchen. But what happens when you get it? Well, if you're like Laurie Colwin, sometimes you find yourself reminiscing about washing a...

Last Bite: Chinese Five Spice Eggplant

We've been craving eggplant something fierce this week, and this photo certainly doesn't help. ...

Harvest Cooking: Eggplant!

This week we're looking at what's inspiring you during harvest time. What are you cooking with, and what sort of harvest bounty do you have? So we asked what is inspiring you, and reader FlyLittleBird...

Learning to Love Eggplant: How to Pick 'Em, Cook 'Em, and Eat 'Em

Eggplant is a love it or hate it kind of a vegetable. Mention it in conversation and you'll either get an ode to the purple globe or stony silence. If you're in the "stony silence" camp, we'd like to...

Recipe: Eggplant Caponata Sandwiches with Mozzarella

This is one of those versatile recipes that can serve more than one purpose — dip, sandwich filling, pasta sauce — and it makes use of all those beautiful eggplants that are in season... ...

Look! Heirloom Eggplants!

At the farmer's market, one farmer was selling these very interesting-looking heirloom eggplants. We've never seen eggplants in so many different sizes, shapes, and colors! Isn't this interesting?...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Alemany

Green walnuts, sour grapes, plums, and much more were seen at the Alemany Farmer's Market last weekend. It's the peak of the season, and the stalls were just bulging with fresh produce of all kinds! ...

SF Local Product: Affi’s Aubergine Dip