We went back to Isa's house and peeled tons of apples for applesauce, apple puff pastries, and apple crisp. Isa roasted some of the eggplants for an eggplant hummus (babahummus?) and we also made ginger pear waffles out of some of the greatest pears I ever tasted! I had the craziest lunch of waffles and babahummus on Friday, and it was so satisfying.
Yesterday I set out to make something great with the eggplants that I picked. Right while I was talking to Kittee about what to make, the idea for Indian eggplant (bhaigan bhartha) came to mind right in the talking. We had a South Indian meal with some friends a few nights ago, and the memory of it is still fresh, and so my stomach got a grumbling, and I got excited while I was still on the phone, and soon after, I looked in my Indian books for the preparation. I ended up settling on something still called bhaigan bhartha but looking quite different than what I've eaten in restaurants: this was an eggplant prepared whole, sliced, and stuffed with a tamarind/jaggery/spice paste! I was intrigued, so I made it, and it was so crazy good, oh my:
We ate it with corn from Sauvie Island (not picked by me) and Aaron made the best Sumac/Nasturtium Tofu. Woh!
We've made a bunch of great things over the past several months, so I wonder what inspired me to resurrect this here blog? Well, if I have any readers, let me know! I'll try to write again soon enough.
I'm hoping for another Sauvie Island Day real soon. I'm so inspired by eggplant now!
5 comments:
Yum! The tofu sounds really interesting and the eggplant dish sounds amazing.
looks really great! may I ask what cookbook you got the bhaigan bhartha recipe from?
yes! you do have a few readers. I just happened to click here... and look - a new post!
That bhaigan bhartha recipe looks insanely good. I've got an eggplant planted out front, full of japanese eggplants, but I never use them.
also, what kind of mad genius thinks up sumac-nasturtium tofu!?
oh, comments!
kim: thanks!
m: it's from World of the East Vegetarian Cookbook by Madhur Jaffrey. One of my first and favorites! I've had it well over 10 yrs!
amey: thanks for letting me know you're here! we've made the eggplant again since this post, and it was great, but not as great as with fresh-picked eggplant (it was local, but sitting in my bin for a week or so), so go for it! and yeah, aaron really is a kind of mad genius in a lot of ways! he always comes up with crazy stuff like that. i should share it more.
i'm here! your eggplant looks great. i've seen and made a similar recipe before, but didn't know this variation was also considered to be baigan bharta. i can't wait to share all the south indian cookbooks i scored whilst in south india.
xo
kittee
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