Exploring with Eggplant

[netmouse]

I have just recently been learning that I really like eggplant in Indian and Thai food. I am planning to xplore doing some of that kind of cooking, though I'm not very familiar with those cuisines or their ingredients. In looking at recipes just now, I also found out there are different kinds of eggplant and am wondering where to get the different kinds.

Do you have any favorite non-western eggplant recipes? If so, please share!

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the recipe for it! There's a San Francisco Chinese restaurant called House of Nanking (on about Jackson and Kearny, for anyone reading this and going to SF soon), and they do amazing things with eggplant when it's in good season. They serve it with whitefish, or on a bed of garlic and sauteed pea shoots with slices of yam, and the sauce, oooooh, the sauce. It was one of the outstanding successes of not ordering, just letting them bring us food, because I never would have said, "Yes, eggplant is what I need, possibly with whitefish," and yet it's so amazing that way.

Want some now. Sigh.