Inspired by Alicia Silverstone's "The Kind Diet" and Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," we want to experience the vegan lifestyle to improve our health, boycott animal suffering, and reduce our carbon footprint.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Cooking with eggplant: Part 1

While perusing some cookbooks from the library, I got inspired to make my own concoction of ingredients floating around my kitchen.  Here was my "kitchen sink" meal centered around roasted eggplant...
From my garden: basil, rosemary, pepper, tomatoes.
From the farmers market: eggplant, garlic, torpedo onion, cipolini onions.
I sliced the eggplant, soaked and cleaned the cipolinis, and concocted a dressing of EVOO, red wine vinegar, minced garlic, rosemary leaves.  Roast in oven around 400 degrees for ~30 min. (If you just want to roast the cipolini onions, check out this easy recipe.)
In a frying pan, I sauteed the thinly sliced torpedo onion and the chopped Anaheim pepper.  This is what happened after I sprinkled fresh basil on the stack:
YUM.  Yeah, I totally ate several stacks.

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