I'm not a huge fan of eggplant by itself so whenever we get it I try to meld it into a dish with lots of other ingredients. I was looking through a cookbook for inspiration and found a recipe for a rigatoni with eggplant, tomatoes, olives and onions. It was quite delish. I also sprinkled some leftover mozzarella cheese on top:
This recipe was from Jack Bishop's
"Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook," which I bought used at the Strand last winter but haven't used much yet. It's so big, I think I'm intimidated by it! I should delve deeper into it though, because this eggplant recipe was pretty good.
I've been trying eggplant a bunch this summer because it was featured in a recent issue of Everyday Food. This recipe was our favorite of them all:
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That looks really good! I'll try it when we get more eggplant!
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