Eggplant--Elegant, Easy & Utterly Delicious
...I am crazy about eggplant, in all its sexy, purple glory. If you prepare it right, this beautiful... vegetable is hearty and flavorful, too. Yeah, yeah, we all have that one bad memory of a tough eggplant... content of certain foods in the nightshade family, which includes eggplant, as well as potatoes, tomatoes... read more...

Great Grilled Eggplant: Cook Once, Eat Twice
...Eggplant is such a meaty vegetable, hearty enough, in fact, to serve as a main course. The easy... trick to a successful eggplant dish is letting the pre-cut rounds sit in salt for about 15 minutes prior... to cooking. That helps extract moisture and always results in better flavor. Eggplant loves oil (if you saute... read more...

31 Days of Great Grilling: Easy Grilled Eggplant
... the stuff. So what are we supposed to grill for her? Answer: hearty slabs of meaty eggplant. The strong... thinking of charcoal briquettes in an episode of Law & Order, demanding to know where an eggplant...-it-off-the-fire, slap-it-on-a-plate fare; you can grill the eggplant first, then hand it off to your sous-chef to make... read more...