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VIDEOIf you don't like eggplant, I don't blame you. Cooked solo and it leaves something to be desired. However, if you try my air fried eggplant recipe you just might end up eating eggplant regularly like I do now. The big secret is Panko that imparts a fantastic crunchiness to the texture.Oh, and soon I will be showing you an ingredient that will take these air fried eggplants to the next level. You can guess what that ingredient is in the comments below.

I’m a fan of eggplant. It’s commonly said that eggplant hasn’t much taste, but soaks up other flavors; but I like its own taste. I think I’ve posted this before, and can’t remember where I found it; but it’s one of my favorite things to do with eggplant – if you also like tahini, you’ll enjoy this: ROASTED EGGPLANT WITH TAHINI DRESSING 2 medium eggplants (about 1 1/4 pounds total), trimmed and halved lengthwise coarse sea salt freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley DRESSING: 3 tablespoons well-stirred tahini 2 tablespoons plus...

Some years ago a little Indian restaurant opened not far from my home; for a tiny hole-in-the-wall in a strip mall, it has become very popular and received great reviews. This wasn’t my first experience with Indian food, but it certainly is the experience that made me an addict, and I wanted to learn how to make some similar dishes at home. I posted an Instant Pot recipe for Butter Chicken last year: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3659886/postsbut last week I wanted to try an eggplant recipe. We adapted the following from the same book as the butter chicken - ‘The Keto Instant Pot...

Eggplant Parmigiana is one of my favorite dishes, but it’s a time-consuming dish to make and messes up a lot of dishes. And even though we’ve used for years a great, easy recipe from America’s Test Kitchen which involves baking instead of frying the eggplant, my husband’s commitment to low-carb eating makes any recipe that uses breading less than ideal. Looking for a fast, low-carb alternative, I happened to find ‘Cooking with Pina’ on YouTube, and Pina’s quick, throw-together recipe. It may not be like what you are used to, but if you like eggplant for itself and are low-carbing,...

I’ve always thought that artichokes – as they are available to a suburbanite like me, in the supermarket – were expensive and time-consuming to prepare and cook. But I like them, and I like the ritual of eating them; so once or twice a year I’ll buy them as a ‘Rite of Spring’. I’ve always steamed mine but recently found some recipes for roasting them. Since I’ve come to enjoy roasted asparagus much more than I like it steamed, I thought I’d try handling the artichokes this way. I used this recipe from 'Pinch My Salt', but omitted the garlic,...

I have a book entitled, 'Simply Homemade Food Gifts', from the Meredith Press. It contains many very attractive recipes for gift-giving, and ways of packaging/presenting them. I thought these Viennese Coffee Ball cookies looked good, and quick to put together: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/cookies/viennese-coffee-balls/This time of year I begin craving more vegetables, and one veggie recipe that we never tire of is this Gratin of Eggplant, Tomatoes and Zucchini, from the Julia and Jacques 'Cooking at Home' series: http://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/recipe-eggplant-and-zucchini-gratin/The companion book to this series is especially good: https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Jacques-Cooking-at-Home/dp/0375404317-JT

Okay, your HIGH is really screwin’ up my LAWN!!! People are IDIOTS and will ingest ANYTHING to catch a BUZZ — the latest — FLOWER SEEDS?! That’s right, people are CHEWING the seeds of: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Sleepy Grass Blue Morning Glory Because they’re LEGAL, and apparently, mimic the high of LSD.

Researchers today announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an "asterid" - a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee. But these two 20-30 million-year-old fossil flowers, found perfectly preserved in a piece of amber, came from the dark side of the asterid family - they belong to the genus Strychnos, which ultimately gave rise to some of the world's most famous poisons, including strychnine and curare. Poisons that would later find their way into blow-gun weapons, rat control,...

My husband caught a nasty cold last weekend, and promptly shared it with me. We came out of the haze just in time to hear from the NWS that our little area of the US is in the bull's eye for an official - and very rare - blizzard this weekend. We've been preparing, as we're largely concerned about a power outage. I remember a few pretty bad snowstorms when I was growing up, but a power outage was never a real problem: we lived in one of those old buildings with radiators, whose hot water/steam was powered by burning...

A restaurant chef was detained by police in Liaoning Province after he assaulted a customer over an unsavory comment about his cooking, media reported Friday. Jinzhou police took the feisty cook, surnamed Zhang, into custody for the altercation at the local eatery on September 4. The punched patron, surnamed Zhao, suffered minor injuries, police said. According to reports, Zhang and another chef were arguing over recipes for stir-fried eggplant when Zhao overheard and chimed in. Zhao described Zhang's cooking as "too salty to satisfy customers or the restaurant's owner." The unsolicited comment apparently left a bad taste in Zhang's mouth,...

Today's lunch: Liver, eggplant and turnips. Just FYI. I really felt I needed to share this today.

Hiya....I am looking for a quick and easy recipe for Eggplant. A neighbor gave me some and I want to try it.

The love of eggplant goes way back for Arunima Kashyap. It was the only food she’d eat when she was little, and it’s still her favorite. For a long time, that love was a one-way street. The eggplant gave, and Kashyap ate. But then the scientist, who grew up in India, found a way to give back to the humble eggplant, and to some of the other plants and curry spices she adores. Working with Steven Weber, an archeologist and associate professor at Washington State University Vancouver, Kashyap was able to track down some of the plants’ ancient lineage and...

Here's an announcement to its customers that I'm told came directly from Sysco Foods. ALL OF OUR GROWERS HAVE INVOKED THE ACT OF GOD CLAUSE ON OUR CONTRACTS (Force majuere) DUE TO THE FOLLOWING RELEASE. WE WILL BE CONTACTING YOU PERSONALLY TO REVIEW HOW THIS WILL AFFECT OUR CONTRACTED ITEMS WITH YOU GOING FORWARD. THE DEVASTATING FREEZE IN MEXICO IS WORST FREEZE IN OVER 50 YEARS... THE EXTREME FREEZING TEMPERATURES HIT A VERY BROAD SECTION OF MAJOR GROWING REGIONS IN MEXICO, FROM HERMOSILLO IN THE NORTH ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO LOS MOCHIS AND EVEN SOUTH OF CULIACAN. THE EARLY...

Having a chemical plant sited next door to your plantation isn't what the average farmer might want for his crop. Jan van Duijn, however, walks proudly through his greenhouse, a vast glass and metal structure spread out over five hectares (12.3 acres) where millions of aubergines are doing very nicely thank you. He's happy because thanks to a deal with a supplier, he's getting hot water piped in from the factory, which produces ammonia, to maintain the temperature at a constant 68 degrees F (20C). The chemical site, five kilometres (three miles away), also supplies carbon dioxide which helps his...

Pizza chef Gaetano Esposito displays his creation, a pizza in the form of U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, in front of his brick ovens in Naples January 22, 2009. The pizza is made with cream of eggplant, tomatoes, ricotta cheese, cream of artichoke, buffalo mozzarella and extra virgin olive oil.

August 12, 2007 - A Delaware County woman says an eggplant has reminded her that God can be found anywhere, and anytime. Felicia Teske of Boothwyn says she was preparing fried eggplant for dinner Sunday evening and noticed that the seeds in one slice seemed to spell out the word "GOD". Felicia says she bought the eggplant at a roadside produce stand a while back, and also says the discovery has really given her food for thought. Felicia told Action News that she recently had family members pass away and it is comforting that "GOD" appeared. Felicia Teske and her...

Plants on Earth are green because of chlorophyll, which harnesses the energy of the sun to make sugars for metabolism. But our plants aren't completely efficient -- they waste a little bit of light. "Ideally, what you want is a black molecule that absorbs all of the light," Blankenship said... They also are looking into the "red edge" effect. Seen at 700 nanometers out, beyond the limit of normal human vision, this reflectance spectrum is a signature of the fact that there is very intense chlorophyll absorption going on... "When you consider another world you've got to find that life...