Tag Archives: Eggplant

Eggplant Polenta Bites

Over the past few days I have noticed that a lot of the food blogs based in the US have been posting recipes for finger foods or appetizers that they recommend for Superbowl parties. I live in Maryland and even though I am not a football fan (I am a die-hard soccer freak instead!) I feel that this year...
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Indian Style Smoked Eggplant with Goat Cheese

Recently I joined an interesting group of food bloggers.  Most of them are trained chefs and have had long involvements with the hospitality/food industry and quite a few of them have very established food blogs with a large steady readership. Compared to them, I am a complete newbie in the blogosphere. Each of them has his/her niche area –...
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Baba Ghanoush

While traveling in Egypt with my family, I fell in love with the cold vegetarian mezze dishes that we were served in every part of the country.  Every restaurant that we ate in had freshly baked pita bread that they served with various kinds of tart pickled vegetables and thick vegetarian dips like Baba Ghanoush and Hummus.  Even though...
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Polenta Casserole

This is a recipe devised by my college-going daughter.  She prefers to eat vegetarian and found that there were very few vegetarian choices in the college’s cafeteria.  Also, they tended to repeat the same old same stuff every day and she longed for something different. So she threw in a few ingredients she had in her pantry and refrigerator...
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