I suppose that Stuffed Eggplant with capers, olives and anchovies is not tremondously exciting. Neither is a salad of speckled romaine, japanese cucumber, avocado and herbs. Vanilla custard with peach compote is not exciting either. There is a unifying theme: the eggplant, avocado, herbs and peaches were all things I really needed to use ( Read more... )

What happens when your roommate replaces a real tomato with one of those "vine-ripened" hothouse tomatoes? Well, since those so-called vine-ripened tomatoes are about as ripe as a green tomato, what happens when you let one sit and age for 3 weeks? The seeds sprout. That's what happens. A real tomato will actually rot beforehand. To be honest ( Read more... )