Spicy Eggplant in Garlic Sauce

It was Friday, and I was cooking for Shabbat in an uninspired way. Just your basic basil/lemon chicken roasted over root vegetables. Israeli salad (plenty of chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, seasoned with salt, lemon juice and olive oil). Choumous, corn salad, a plate of olives and pickles. The guests were a family with three small [...]

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Cornbread-Covered Ratatouille

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This vegetarian casserole was adapted from a recipe on The New York Times online. The original calls for dairy-based corn biscuits and sausage in the filling – nisht koosher. So I substituted walnuts and mozzarella for the sausage.  The robust flavors of eggplant and tomatoes [...]

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Eggplant Soup

It amazes me how Israelis love eggplant. We”ve been eating it fried, pickled, grilled, flame-roasted, creamed, combined with all kinds of vegetables and flavorings and eggs – since the austerity years of the 1950s. Meat was expensive and scarce, but eggplant grew easily here and there was always lots of it. Cooks in those hard [...]

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Grilled Eggplant and Techinah

It would have been nice to make this dish for some Passover meal, but that sesame is, for some obscure reason, officially kitnyot. So I made it for Shabbat. I watched chef Sufyan make it and while his is much prettier, I think I achieved almost the same taste.
Eggplant with Techina
serves 2-4 as an appetizer
Ingredients:
1 [...]

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