This recipe for the perfect Pasta Alla Norma utilizes the process of roasting to bring glorious sweet caramelized flavor to the eggplants and tomatoes you’ll use to make it. It’s kind of a genius way to bump up the flavor through the actual cooking process you’ve chosen. Where Did the Name Pasta Alla Norma Come …
Caponata is a traditional Italian appetizer you can make in advance of any event you’re having. It is made of eggplant and lots of other summer vegetables, simmered and served over crostini. Absolutely delicious!!! I got more eggplant in my CSA box a few weeks ago, and my daughter was getting burnt out on Eggplant …
What Can I Do with All This Zucchini? This recipe for Roasted Ratatouille Tart gloriously combines all the riches of your summer garden/CSA. Which is another way of saying that this recipe will help you deal with the Curse of the Overly Zealous Zucchini – the affliction by which many of you are currently plagued. …
This Grilled Eggplant, Red Pepper and Fresh Mozzarella Ciabatta Sandwich recipe is super simple in terms of preparation, and the payoff is HUGE! You’ll taste crusty bread, meaty grilled eggplant, sweet and pungent roasted red peppers, melty-creamy-dreamy mozzarella, and the zingy bite of creamy garlic mayo. Yowzer! This one is definitely going into our summer …
Today my friend Denny Jiosa, wine connoisseur and jazz guitarist extraordinaire is recommending some great wines for early summer. The recipe I’ve chosen to pair with these offerings is Grilled Ratatouille Pasta, and you can find that here. Or, you can just enjoy in one of my most favorite ways to enjoy a glass of …
Grilled Ratatouille Pasta with Roasted Garlic and Fresh Mozzarella is a recipe that contains all the flavors that, to me, are quintessentially summer. Behold the brilliant colors (and flavors) of summer! Love it! Grilled Ratatouille? It’s almost officially summer, my friends, and the tomatoes, zucchini, peppers and eggplant will be rolling in before you know …
Extravagantly Excellent Eggplant Parmigiana I can hear you now: Eggplant Parmigiana? Eggplant??? I HATE eggplant! And honestly, at one point in my life, I would have said exactly the same thing. I grew up hating eggplant. I was raised, in fact, on the hatred of eggplant. Nasty, bitter, detestable stuff, eggplant. I was disgusted by …