Posts Tagged ‘aubergine’

Sweet and spicy japanese aubergine

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Sweet and spicy japanese aubergine

I hit the kitchen properly last night for the frst time in about ten days and banged pans about with wild abandon for a couple of hours. After all of which I ended up with an almost radioactively bright moong dhal and a gentle, ok – bland, leek and potato soup. Disaster.

As a result I felt a certain degree of performance anxiety tonight. The fridge contained just three long slender aubergines and a scraping of miso. Add that to some staples (onion, chilli, garlic) and my stock of sauces and an idea germinated. A sweet spicy aubergine hotpot/stirfry/curry type thing. (more…)

Smoky silk: aubergine and smoked tofu with udon noodles

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Smokey tofu and aubergine udon noodles

There’s nothing better for a night when you’re feeling a bit crappy than a full on assault on the senses. This delivers that attack in spades. Chilli heat, silken aubergines and smoky tofu. All those strong flavours maintaining a fragile truce.

Blues are banished – along with any remaining subtle taste buds – in the pungent, silky-smooth smoky chilli miasma. (more…)

Lamb, almond & date tagine, WMPC and an aubergine misfire

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The bad Baba

This is the rest of the the meal I cooked for Where’s My Pork Chop. And this is where, in the time honoured fashion of all young *cough* heroes *cough cough* on their quest for: the holy grail/the destruction of The Ring/their Shadow/cook a half decent meal, I hit a bump in the road. (more…)

A spicy and smoky aubergine, chickpea and tomato stew

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

A spicy aubergine, chickpea and tomato stew

I have a whole repertoire of dishes that I create pretty much from instinct. Cooking most days means that I have developed a whole lot of simple concoctions that are easily adapted to whatever ingredients I have hanging around. This one’s a favourite. It pretty much looks after itself and is straightforward to throw together and leave to bubble away while I get on with other things. In this case singing along to some sixties soul classics at the top of my formidably tuneless voice.  (more…)

Baba ganoush, roast red pepper and hummus

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Baba Ganoush

In need of lunchtime inspiration I spent a good five minutes mentally cataloguing the contents of the fridge. A rather tired aubergine and red pepper were loitering in the vegetable drawer, a tub of greek yogurt and the remains of a jar of tahini sat in a shelf. Add a bulb of garlic and a couple of lemons from the vegetable bowl that sits atop the fridge, and the ever present pittas in the freezer, and I had the makings of a fairly decent meze lunch. It was either that or something more complex and slow cooked – but I had neither the time nor the inclination to spend too long over the meal. (more…)