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Oasis in the desert
We just finished a weekend with our friends Bob and Leslie, who have a vacation home in La Quinta (near Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley). Not only do they have a beautiful home with plenty of room...
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Baked Ziti with Eggplant and Smoked Mozzarella
I do love a good, hearty, warm casserole, but with spring in full force here, the time for such things is quickly drawing to a close. With that in mind, I made baked ziti the other day, but with a...
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Eggplant “lasagna”
In looking for a new use for the beautiful rainbow chard that showed up in our CSA box last week, I came across a couple of recipes that incorporated chopped chard in the ricotta mixture in lasagna. I...
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Lebanese-style stuffed eggplant
I pinned a recipe for stuffed eggplant a while back, thinking that, one of these days, when I had the right ingredients on hand, I could vegetarianize it. Last weekend at the farmer’s market, I ran...
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Rotini with eggplant
A friend of mine recently shared a recipe for pasta with eggplant for me. It sounds pretty boring, frankly, but it looked lovely, and she swore by it. And, yeah, we ended up with a crapton of assorted...
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Grilled pizza with eggplant
Before we moved away from Northern California, my favorite pizza place was Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria,* and my favorite pizza there was called the Boston. It was simple pizza with fried eggplant and...
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Baked Rigatoni with Eggplant
The hubby says I’ve been hitting it out of the ballpark with eggplant lately. High praise from someone who, until recently, didn’t like eggplant much. My latest endeavor was a recipe recommended by my...
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Fusilli with roasted eggplant and goat cheese
I have had to get really creative with eggplant this summer. We get a big haul of it in each CSA box, and I’m just not used to cooking with it much. For one, the hubby was, until fairly recently, not...
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Eggplant, Mozzarella and Saffron Rice Bake
I have been meaning to make this eggplant bake for weeks, but something always seems to come up. I love the combination of flavors and textures — tomato and saffron, and rice instead of pasta — and it...
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Roasted Vegetable Flatbread with Goat Cheese (from Edible Austin)
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Jen and Alex Jackson for a profile in Edible Austin. The couple has since moved on to San Francisco (Bay Area friends, our loss is your...
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