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[hradzka]

Leftover eggplant, sauteed in canola oil, then simmered in (canned) tomato sauce with chicken sausage, is really good with herb greens. The sausage is not as good a part of it, though, so next time I'm going all-vegetable, with maybe mushrooms and zucchini

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[amore_di_libri]

I have experienced the joys of okra in new and astoundingly awesome ways; mostly because other people have cooked it and offered it to me. :D

I saw John Ringo at the airport bookstore and thought of this lj. O__o

[ext_101317]

Mmm, eggplant.

My favorite mode of cooking is "see whatever vegetables I have, calculate - roughly - in which order they have to go into the pan, go! Then see if I have to add anything. I've yet to get something really bad out of that, and it's really, really good pretty often.

[sienamystic]

You can also scoop out the eggplant flesh, cube it and saute it with some olive oil and whatever else you'd like (garlic, onions, herbs, etc - pine nuts work really well) and then mix it with some tomato sauce/puree/etc, breadcrumbs, cheese. Pop it all back in the eggplant boats and bake. Yummy. I have a recipe somewhere but eyeballing the proportions tends to work well enough.