Food

Miso-butter roasted eggplant

I harvested a decent number of eggplant Tuesday night and came home last night looking for something quick to make with them.  Lately I’ve come across a lot of recipes using miso butter and thought maybe it was time to give it a try!  In truth, miso butter really seemed…

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First Tomato Sauce of the Year!

It seems that the image most people have of making tomato sauce is grandmas stirring all day over these giant pots that they can’t even lift.  Not so in my kitchen.  I make tomato sauce a couple times a week from late June through September, and it’s really a pretty…

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Crispy eggplant chips

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted in a while.  It turns out that tonsilitis makes you want to not do anything!  I’ve certainly had to keep up with the garden and housework, but I haven’t been doing anything terribly interesting. Anyway, I had a bunch of Japanese eggplant…

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Browned-butter pecan cookies

The house across the street from me recently sold (at such a low asking price that it sold the day the sign went up – aargh!).  Anyway, spotting new neighbors definitely means that it’s time to get baking!  As you may recall from a previous post, there’s a lot of…

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Creamy eggplant pasta

My mom came out of the local farm stand with an eggplant just for me!  Okay, maybe I wasn’t that excited at the time.  I was crazy tired and just wanted to go home and sleep.  But I needed dinner anyway so I figured I’d do something with the eggplant. …

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