Eggplant from the international market:
And shallots because these are huuuuuggggeee:
And shallots because these are huuuuuggggeee:
The CookingBites recipe challenge: aubergine (eggplant)
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If they are fairly fresh to start with the keep quite well. I put them in the salad drawer of the fridge.
Oh, please do enter both if you can...
I wouldn't buy the ones in the first picture (which I believe are Japanese eggplants) . They look as if they've been out on the counter for quite a while!
The round ones, on the other hand, look yummy. Bright, shiny and with a green, not grey, stalk.
msmofet
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DD orders the pizza.
My eggplant Parmesan isn't sophisticated enough to enter.
Doesn't need to be sophisticated - just yummy!
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Not an entry as Windigo posted the recipe before but today's Baba Ganoush courtesy of that recipe 
I had to adjust it a wee bit as no molasses available (used black treacle) and didn't use a standard Ras el Hanout blend as I struggle with the level of perfume from cardamon and rose petals etc so I mixed my own toning those elements down a tad. I did miss the garlic a bit but overall it was delicious. One non aubergine eating son said he didn't like the perfumed overtones! The other who really doesn't like aubergine due to it's texture ate a whole ramekins worth!
Two decent ones available and one not so shiny. Didn't use much of that one because the recipe only calls for two medium size and they were almost a medium.
Yes I know I forgot to wipe the bowl before the photo
It is lovely, I can't stop eating it!
I had to adjust it a wee bit as no molasses available (used black treacle) and didn't use a standard Ras el Hanout blend as I struggle with the level of perfume from cardamon and rose petals etc so I mixed my own toning those elements down a tad. I did miss the garlic a bit but overall it was delicious. One non aubergine eating son said he didn't like the perfumed overtones! The other who really doesn't like aubergine due to it's texture ate a whole ramekins worth!
Two decent ones available and one not so shiny. Didn't use much of that one because the recipe only calls for two medium size and they were almost a medium.
Yes I know I forgot to wipe the bowl before the photo
It is lovely, I can't stop eating it!
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I disagree. I have seen you put out some delicious looking food!
Don't be daft! You are obviously a good cook from the recipes I've seen that you have posted.
Not an entry as Windigo posted the recipe before but today's Baba Ganoush courtesy of that recipe
I had to adjust it a wee bit as no molasses available (used black treacle) and didn't use a standard Ras el Hanout blend as I struggle with the level of perfume from cardamon and rose petals etc so I mixed my own toning those elements down a tad. I did miss the garlic a bit but overall it was delicious. One non aubergine eating son said he didn't like the perfumed overtones! The other who really doesn't like aubergine due to it's texture ate a whole ramekins worth!
Two decent ones available and one not so shiny. Didn't use much of that one because the recipe only calls for two medium size and they were almost a medium.
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Yes I know I forgot to wipe the bowl before the photo
It is lovely, I can't stop eating it!
Well now - I think its fine to post an entry based on a variation of another recipe (so long as you credit the original). And indeed, your Baba Ganoush differs in quite a few ways. Baba Ganoush is a basic 'traditional' recipe which has many variations.
Plus, we need entries. We really need entries everybody!
I’ve got one coming up today and another in the works. Nothing special, but only because I want to make msmofet feel welcome. 
Otherwise, I would have made an elaborate eggplant stuffed with a selection of other eggplant dishes (sort of like turducken, so I guess that’d be an eggplanten
), presented in a fairytale spun-honey birdcage kind of thing.
But, nah, I didn’t want to run everyone else off!
Otherwise, I would have made an elaborate eggplant stuffed with a selection of other eggplant dishes (sort of like turducken, so I guess that’d be an eggplanten
), presented in a fairytale spun-honey birdcage kind of thing. But, nah, I didn’t want to run everyone else off!
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