Sinlessly Delicious Recipes

Leftovers give you two separate good feelings. When you first put them away, you feel really intelligent–”I’m saving food!” And then, after a month, when hair is growing out of them and you throw them away you feel…really intelligent–”I’m saving my life!”

–George Carlin

I often think of eggplants like George Carlin’s leftovers.  When you buy one, you feel really good for bringing home this healthy, shiny vegetable.  Then you put it into your fridge and forget it for a week or so, and when you pull it out, it’s all dull and sunken in places, and you feel….  Well, that’s where the comparison ends because, if you’re like me, you feel really bad that this once-beautiful food has gone to waste.  It used to happen to me more often than I want to admit until I hit upon a solution: If I haven’t used the eggplant after two or three days, I cut it in two and roast it in my toaster oven.  Eggplant will last longer once it’s cooked, giving me time to figure out what new and adventurous recipe I want to create with it (though most of the time my cooking muse is silent and it becomes baba ganoush).

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