With warmer weather finally coming, we are starting to see nightshades in our shares. Nightshades are a curious group of vegetables, named such because they grow at night, rather than in the sun. Plants in the nightshade family include tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, and tobacco.
Many health food folks warn against eating too many nightshades in a single meal, a warning blissfully ignored by my (and many many other) Italian families. Piling nightshade on nightshade results in some truly delicious Italian dishes. Here are a few suggestions for mixing tomatoes and eggplant.
Alice Waters will not lead you astray
Make it into soup
Serve it as a starter
My favorite? FRY it!
- Christiana Thomas
Friday, July 9, 2010
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